(2024-12-30). What is the Revolutionary Communist International proclaimed by the former International Marxist Tendency of Alan Woods?—Part 3. wsws.org What Woods, et al, now dare to dismiss as the defence by a "sect" of an "orthodoxy" disproved by events, as they themselves oriented to the counter-revolutionary bureaucracies, represented the essential struggle for the perspective of world socialist revolution and the international party required for its realisation.
(2024-12-30). Trudeau government scrapes all names from "Victims of Communism" monument in attempt to hide Canada's patronage of Nazi collaborators and war criminals. wsws.org No member of the Liberal government was allowed to show their face at the inauguration ceremony, for fear it would once again draw public attention to the Canadian state's longstanding and ongoing patronage of fascist forces.
(2024-12-30). Palestinians are souring on Hamas — and they want an end to the war. haaretz.com There's the bad news — apocalyptic destruction in Gaza, rampant poverty, utter despair about the Palestinian Authority — and there's more bad news: Over half of Palestinians still back the October 7 attack. But recent polls show that's not the whole story…
(2024-12-29). Resist, My People, Resist. orinocotribune.com By Vijay Prashad — Dec 27, 2024 | With a year marked by genocide and conflict almost behind us, we welcome the new year with struggle. | May it bring us closer to a socialist world where the dreams of humanity can finally awaken. | Pain shudders through the arteries of global society. Day after day passes by as the genocide against the Palestinian people continues and the conflicts in the Great Lakes region of Africa and Sudan escalate. More and more people slip into absolute poverty as arms companies' profits soar. These realities have hardened society, allowing people to bury their heads and ignore the hor…
(2024-12-29). Resist, My People, Resist. orinocotribune.com By Vijay Prashad — Dec 27, 2024 | With a year marked by genocide and conflict almost behind us, we welcome the new year with struggle. | May it bring us closer to a socialist world where the dreams of humanity can finally awaken. | Pain shudders through the arteries of global society. Day after day passes by as the genocide against the Palestinian people continues and the conflicts in the Great Lakes region of Africa and Sudan escalate. More and more people slip into absolute poverty as arms companies' profits soar. These realities have hardened society, allowing people to bury their heads and ignore the hor…
Since the 1990s, Western Marxists have replaced imperialism with global capitalism that is untethered to Western imperialism. Western Marxists have also deemed socialist projects as a betrayal of their utopian views rooted in the Hegelian "purity fetish."
In today's world of widespread poverty and unprecedented wealth, how about raising the wages of the most poorly paid workers? This October, the World Bank reported that "8.5 percent of the global population―almost 700 million people―live today on less than $2.15 per day," while "44 percent of the global population―around 3.5 billion people―live today on less than
His name might not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world. Today, we take a journey through the life and work of Yip Harburg, the Broadway lyricist who wrote such hits as "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" and who put the music into The Wizard of Oz, the movie that inspired the hit Broadway musical and now Hollywood blockbuster, Wicked. Born into poverty on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, Harburg always included a strong social and political component to his work, fighting racism and poverty. A lifelong socialist, Harburg was blacklisted and hounded throughout much of…
Alexander and Mikhail Kononovich. Letter to Workers World from Mikhail Kononovich and Alexander Kononovich. Translation by Steve Gillis. Dear comrades, We would like to first draw your attention, comrades, to the fact that we, communists and anti-fascists, brothers Mikhail Kononovich and Alexander Kononovich, were arrested for our many years of . . . |
The South African Communist Party (SACP), a longtime ally of the governing African National Congress (ANC) has decided to contest the 2026 local government elections in its own name. | The move, confirmed at the mid-December Special National Congress of the SACP, marks a resolute break with the ANC. This was prompted by the latter's decision to
At the 2017 March for Science in Washington, DC , Dr. Lydia Jennings wore a T-shirt that read, "Strong Resilient Indigenous," and held a sign saying, "Traditional Ecological Knowledge Is Science Too!"
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November 24, 2024 The analysis that Raposo, editor of