“Post-Marxism” has become a fashionable intellectual posture, with the triumph of neo-liberalism and the retreat of the working class. The space vacated by the reformist left [in Latin America] has in part been occupied by capitalist politicians and ideologues, technocrats and the traditional and fundamentalist churches (Pentecostals and the Vatican). In the past, this space was occupied by socialist, nationalist and populist politicians and church activists associated with the “theology of liberation”. The centre-left was very influential within the political regimes (at the top) or the less politicised popular classes (at the bottom). The vacant space of the radical left refers to the political intellectuals and politicised sectors of the trade unions and urban and rural social movements. It is among these groups that the conflict between Marxism and “post-Marxism” is most intense today.
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Marxism
A Marxist Critique of Post-Marxism
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Syria
Sectarianism and the Assad regime in Syria
29 AprilThis article was first published on the English-Arabic blog ”Syria Freedom Forever” on 4 April 2013.
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US Imperialism’s pivot to Asia
16 April, by Ashley SmithIn his second inaugural address, President Obama announced that after he withdraws combat troops from Afghanistan, the United States will be “ending a decade of wars.” On the very same day, the United States conducted three drone strikes in Yemen. In reality, Washington is now in a permanent state of “low-intensity” drone wars all around the world and is preparing, through what has been called the Pivot to Asia, to contain China. Obama is no pacifist. In his second term, he intends not to retreat from American imperial assertion but to strengthen it.
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Ecology
A critique of the ecosocialist manifesto of the Parti de Gauche
24 March, by Daniel TanuroDaniel Tanuro is the author of L’impossible capitalisme vert (“the impossible green capitalism”) [1]. In this article, he presents an analysis of the Ecosocialist Manifesto of the French Left Party. Highlighting the real advances contained in this document, but also its limitations, he contributes to the crucial debate on the necessary ecosocialist strategy.
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Spanish state
The Trotskyism of the Liga
4 March, by Miguel RomeroThis was written as the Prologue to the Castilian-language edition of Daniel Bensaid’s book on "Trotskyisms" by Miguel Romero a long-time central leader of the LCR in the Spanish state, today member of Izquierda Anticapitalista.
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More Banks versus the People
26 February, by Éric Toussaint“As the Economist put it at year-end 2006, ‘having grown at an annual rate of 3.2% per head since 2000, the world economy is over halfway towards notching up its best decade ever. If it keeps going at this clip, it will beat both the supposedly idyllic 1950s and the 1960s. Market capitalism, the engine that runs most of the world economy, seems to be doing its job well.’”
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Rosa Parkes at 100
21 February, by Dianne FeeleyIn 1988, Rosa Parks attended a film screening of the first segment of the documentary “Eyes on the Prize” in Detroit. Afterward she spoke about her involvement in the civil rights struggle, and I was lucky enough to be in the audience. She was a small woman with a quiet but steel-sharp voice that made an ever lasting impression on her audience.
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Economic crisis
Banks versus the People: The Underside of a Rigged Game!
22 January, by Éric ToussaintSince 2007-2008, the major central banks (the ECB, Bank of England, the “Fed” in the USA, and the Swiss National Bank) have been making it their absolute priority to attempt to avoid a collapse of the private banking system. Contrary to what has been said more or less everywhere, the principal risk threatening the banks is not that a government will suspend payment of sovereign debt. None of the bank failures since 2007 have been caused by that kind of payment default. None of the bank bailouts organized by the various governments has been made necessary by suspension of payment by an over-indebted State.
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Ecosocialism
A Plea for an Ecological Reconstruction of Marxism
3 December 2012, by Daniel TanuroFor the first time in history, humanity has to conceive our emancipation under a global ecological constraint, unsurpassable by an increase in labor productivity.
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Philippines
Struggle for Self-Determination of the Bangsamoro Revolutionary Fronts: A Historical Perspective and Current Realities
22 October 2012, by R.S. SolisThis paper from the RMP-M (Revolutionary Workers’ Party-Mindanao, Philippines section of the Fourth International), gives the background to the reported “framework” agreement between the Moro people on Mindanao and the Philippines’ government.
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- A Marxist Critique of Post-Marxism
- Why socialists need feminism
- The Current Mobilizations over Rape
- A Plea for an Ecological Reconstruction of Marxism
- Struggle for Self-Determination of the Bangsamoro Revolutionary Fronts: A Historical Perspective and Current Realities
- For another difference
- On the question of sexual difference
- Postmodernism and Feminism
- The significance of Occupy
- Francis Fukuyama and the ‘absent left’
- A personal tribute to Dave Packer
- Dave Packer: a tribute
- Gerry Foley: A Life Dedicated to Socialist Revolution
- The Left against Debt-tatorship
- In the eye of the storm: the debt crisis in the European Union
- Che Guevara in Search of a New Socialism
- The crisis of French Marxism
- Strategy and Party
- The spark ignites in the action - the philosophy of praxis in the thought of Rosa Luxemburg
- Marxisms, theory, yesterday and today
- Marxism and Feminism
- The powers of communism
- Seventy years since the formation of the Fourth International
- Has working-class consciousness collapsed?
- Elements of revolutionary strategy
- The Challenge of Revolutionary Democracy in the Life and Thought of Rosa Luxemburg
- Uneven and Combined Development and the Sweep of History: Focus on Europe
- Dialectics and Revolution
- The Marxism of Trotsky’s "Results and Prospects"
- The Mole and the Locomotive
- Marx, Weber and the Critique of Capitalism
- The nature of social-democratic reformism
- Lessons from a Critical Intellectual
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[1] Paris, La Découverte, 2010
Hong Kong dockworkers continue struggle
“I think we can hold on for a long time until we get what we want, otherwise we won’t stop” explained crane worker Adrian.
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The Hong Kong dockworkers’ strike enters its thirteen days today (April 9), and public donation reached 3.5 million HK$. Meanwhile according to the CTU, the strike now is supported by 65 dockworkers’ unions around the world. The management continues to refuse talking to the union.
- read article...Declaration of the Assembly on Debt
Considering that the Debt has been, since the 15th century, the main historical instrument of colonization to plunder, dominate, subdue, humiliate and destroy the People and their traditions,
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Responding to direct racist threats from the nazi party Golden Dawn against one of the founding members of CADTM Greece Moisis Litsis, the international CADTM network wishes to highlight how serious a danger the rise of fascism is, a development that is the direct consequence of the deterioration of social conditions imposed by creditors claiming that paying public debts is more important than fundamental human rights.
- read article...Free public transport in a European capital!
Since January 1, 2013 in Tallinn, capital of Estonia, a city of 419,830 inhabitants, residents can take the bus, trolleybus or tram for free. Non-residents must still pay for public transport; they just have to obtain, for the price of 2 euros, a special green card, which tourists must recharge when paying, or else buy a ticket from the driver.
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