12 hours 52 minutes ago
“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.”
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IV578 - March 2023
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United States (USA),
Economy
Dan La Botz
1 day 20 hours ago
“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. ”
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IV578 - March 2023
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United States (USA),
Russia,
China
Gilbert Achcar , Thierry Labica
3 days 3 hours ago
“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.”
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IV578 - March 2023
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France,
Trade unions/workplace organizing
Léon Crémieux
3 days 18 hours ago
NPA - Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste
3 days 22 hours ago
“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.”
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IV578 - March 2023
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Britain
Dave Kellaway
4 days 14 hours ago
Dianne Feeley
4 days 14 hours ago
“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.”
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Feminism
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Women,
Senegal
Fatou Sow
4 days 14 hours ago
“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.”
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IV578 - March 2023
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Nigeria
Paul Martial
5 days 14 hours ago
Collective
6 days 23 hours ago
“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.”
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IV578 - March 2023
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Tunisia,
Racism
Édouard Soulier
1 week ago
“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.”
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IV578 - March 2023
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United States (USA)
Dan La Botz
1 week 1 day ago
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.
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IV578 - March 2023
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Britain,
Economy
Özlem Onaran
1 week 3 days ago
Internationalist Standpoint
1 week 3 days ago
Dave Kellaway
1 week 4 days ago
“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.”
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IV578 - March 2023
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Spanish state,
Public services
Ánxel Testas, Brais Fernandez
1 week 4 days ago
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.
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In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations
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United States (USA),
Obituary,
Egypt
Florian Wilde
1 week 4 days ago
Jaime Pastor , Roberto Montoya
1 week 6 days ago
“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.”
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IV578 - March 2023
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Women
Penelope Duggan
1 week 6 days ago
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.
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Reviews section
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Women,
Reviews
Alice Ragland
1 week 6 days ago
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.
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Feminism
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Marxism,
Women,
Historical events and figures
Liza Featherstone
Checked
11 hours 27 minutes ago
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