International Viewpoint

“Both the banking crisis of 2008 and the current one reveal the irrationality of the capitalist economic system based on private property in both the means of production and finance.”

“The current upsurge of the far right is not, therefore, a roadblock to communism (or anything that might resemble it) as it was in the 1930s, and capital is not looking for an antileft discourse to replace the Cold War one. Rather, it is primarily a quarrel within capitalism itself against a background of crisis. We are obviously concerned as leftists because they are mortal enemies for us. But we are in another historical configuration. ”

“We must, as has been the case for the last two months, continue to build a social balance of forces equal to the popular rejection of Macron's reform. Today, he has his back to the wall, a situation that was unforeseeable a few months ago.”

Statement by the NPA on 16 March 2023 after the French government imposed its pension reform bill without a vote in parliament.

“The current strike wave, in which hundreds of thousands of workers took action on Budget Day, shows us how working people can act as a group to challenge what the owners of the economy are against: decent wage increases and fixing our education, health, rail, postal, and other public services.”

TWENTIETH-CENTURY PRE-ROE America was a scary world for women. Pregnancy and childbirth were destiny.

“No cultural revolution, no return to the sources or ethnic, religious or national authenticity, claimed by the groups that demand them, can legitimize the persistence, imbued with idealization, of so-called traditional or ancestral values, which involve serious discrimination and inequality.”

“The opposition is denouncing massive fraud in a particularly chaotic election. But also hope, because millions of young people have seized on Peter Obi's candidacy to express their desire for change.”

“The Russia of my dreams is first and foremost a democratic society that has overcome atomization.”

“The use of racism and repression have once again become the basic techniques for maintaining power of a president whose legitimacy is falling apart at the seams.”

“Following an indecisive Democratic Party primary, an epic battle between left and right is shaping up in the election for mayor of the windy city.”

Soaring prices of energy, food, other essentials and rent in 2022, caused by multiple supply chain disruptions after Brexit and the pandemic, followed by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, brought an intensive cost of living crisis, exacerbated by inequalities in class, race, gender, as well as the care and ecological crises.

A view of mobilisations on International Women's Day.

“The mobilisation continues in France, with some unions threatening to declare ‘renewable' strikes where one- or two-day action can be reconfirmed and continued in an ongoing way. ”

“The objective should not be the consultation itself, but to turn it into a moment of social organisation, inside and outside health centres and hospitals, involving all sectors of the working class.”

He served as the central figure in the leadership of the International Socialist Organization (ISO) for the better part of his life, presiding over its rise to become the strongest organization of the US revolutionary left – but also the crisis which eventually led to its dissolution in 2019. Now, Ahmed “Shawki” Sehrawy has died, at only 62 years of age.

Two appreciations ofthe life of Daniel Pereyra published by Viento Sur.

“Feminist and women's movements will always be a central part of any movement that fights for real change in society because women have a real interest in changing capitalist and patriarchal class society.”

In Abolition. Feminism. Now. Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie make a compelling case for a feminism that is fundamentally inclusive, intersectional and abolitionist, and an abolitionist movement that is fundamentally feminist.

The Bolshevik diplomat and Marxist feminist thinker Alexandra Kollontai, whose pioneering writings explored the prospects for women's emancipation under socialism, was born on 31 March 1872.