Mike Gonzalez: Second letter from Caracas
The mass movements have saved the revolution over and over again – in their mobilisations, in their defence of production, in their massive electoral support, and in their solidarity.
Russia, Ukraine, Crimea: Sunday morning update
The crisis in Ukraine has escalated. War with Russia seems certain, although it is unclear how far any conflict may reach.
Ukraine: “We cannot hand the movement over to the right.”
Ilya Budraitskis, the Moscow-based socialist, was interviewed by marx21.de magazine earlier this month about the protests in Ukraine.
What do we mean by… uneven and combined development?
Neil Davidson continues an rs21 series on the fundamentals of our political tradition by looking at uneven and combined development.
Where next for Ukraine?
As the major news services shut down their live coverage of events in the Ukraine, the battle for the country’s future might be just beginning.
Is Venezuela burning? A letter from Caracas
Caracas is seeing an uprising of the middle classes and the rich. The working class neighbourhoods remain loyal to the government, but also deeply cynical about the extraordinary corruption of the heirs of Chavez.
Blood on the streets in Ukraine
What is happening in Ukraine is clearly more than a simple protest movement. From day one it has had an insurrectionary character.
Poland’s Gender Trouble
Dan Swain examines the debate over gender issues that is dominating Polish politics.
Tuzla is the Spark – the promise of Bosnia’s uprising
The uprising in Bosnia, seemingly bursting from nowhere, is possibly one of the most important things to happen in Europe so far this year.
The darkest corners of US military strategy
“If the Americans do this again, we are ready to shed our blood fighting them.”
Condemn reactionary violence in Venezuela
We need to fight against the coup attempts of the extreme right wing, but this should not translate into uncritical support for the existing state.
Scarlett, Soda Stream and shifting sands
The crisis over Soda Stream has been picked up by media across the world, with more people now aware of their illegal activities and about the BDS campaign in general.
Protest returns to Brazil
Thousands took to the streets to protest the cost of the World Cup at a time when public services are seeing no improvement despite economic boom in the country.
Egyptian Revolutionary Socialists: Letter to comrades
See below for the statement from The Revolutionary Socialists in Egypt. It can also be found on their new international website, which features news and analysis in English, French and German. The Political Bureau of the Revolutionary Socialists… Greetings to the comrades and colleagues among the revolutionaries who came out onto the streets yesterday. Their […]
Estonians sent to shoot Africans for French business
Estonian troops in Afghanistan. Picture via balticreports.com The nets of empire are catching more and more countries. Estonia and the Central African Republic are a case in point. William Cleary reports. Western powers are invading more and more places, and more and more Western countries are joining the invasions. The Central African Republic and Estonia […]
Pakistan: Baloch families march as state kills and dumps
(picture via International Voice for Baloch Missing Persons) Yesterday a mass grave was discovered in Balochistan, Pakistan’s largest and poorest province. It is likely that the bodies within belong to “missing persons”, victims of a bloody campaign of repression carried out by Pakistan’s security forces since at least 2005. Now the relatives of the disappeared […]
Vienna: 8,000 march against Nazi ball
www.linkswende.org reports: Holocaust survivors, former partisans, trade unionists, local Social Democrats and Greens, and students on 24 January turned out in a 8,000 strong march against the German nationalist student corporations and the fascist Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ). Young and old, people with their babies, homemade banners and a great portion of anger took […]
Neither Brussels nor Moscow
Jan Ladzínski reports on Ukraine Much has happened in Kiev since 21 November. Most of it went unnoticed in the Western media, except for engrossing images of the destruction of Lenin’s statue and protesters using a bulldozer against the police. The little information in the mainstream British media quickly dampened any left enthusiasm for the […]
Factories without bosses: occupation wins in Argentina
(photo from www.8300.com.ar) Suzie Wylie writes from Argentina After 12 years of occupation and struggle at the Zanon ceramic tile factory in Neuquén, in southern Argentina, the courts have awarded the title deed for the property to the factory workers. The Ceramics Union declared, “We have fought, and will keep fighting to demonstrate that the […]
Trayvon Martin and Mark Duggan
Bill Crane compares the workings of the justice system for Trayvon Martin in the US and Mark Duggan in the UK – and notes the role of “colourblind” ideology to prop up racism in both cases. As an American who moved to Britain four months ago, I saw similarities between the cases of Trayvon Martin […]
Patrice Lumumba’s legacy
Last Friday marked the 53rd anniversary of the assassination of Patrice Lumumba. Miriyam Aouragh looks at his legacy and western complicity in his murder. In Une Saison au Congo (A Season in the Congo) from 1966, Aimé Césaire tells an unapologetic story about brutal colonial exploitation and the subsequent transformation of the Belgian Congo into […]
Court victory for 7,000 New Orleans teachers
An appeal court in Louisiana has ruled that the sacking of education workers that took place in the wake of Hurricane Katrina was illegal and that everyone who was fired should get two or three years back pay. Disaster capitalism has been punished, and school workers in New Orleans have won a long fight. Right […]
Sharon: biography of a war criminal
Sai Englert looks back at Ariel Sharon’s bloody legacy and his life of political and military service to the Zionist colonial project: The media’s attempted whitewashing of Sharon’s legacy is not just brushing the history of one man under the carpet; it is an attempt to hide the present reality of Israel as a violent […]
2013 in YouTube videos
Mark Bergfeld collects videos showing episodes of resistance from across the world in 2013.
#M2013: Henrique Sanchez & Alfredo Filho on Brazil
Roderick Cobley reports on a session at Marxism 2013 on the protests against fare increases on public transport in São Paulo and elsewhere.