The Chinese revolution is one of the major events of the twentieth century. Taken as a whole, it covers the entire period from the aftermath of the Russian Revolution to the end of the 1960s, when the People’s Republic descended into the conflicts of the ill-named “Cultural Revolution”. Revolutionary processes that constitute links between such distant periods in this manner are rare.
The history of revolutions and counter-revolutions is thus played out to a large extent in the Far East, (…)
The incandescent front of East Asia: the background to the present crisis
28 June 2021, by Pierre Rousset“What is at stake in the Myanmar crisis is of an international dimension. South-East Asia is at the crossroads of the Asia-Pacific region, whose geostrategic importance has become major: it is there that the face-to-face between the United States and China is being played out primarily.”
Why the Paris Commune Still Resonates, 150 Years Later
3 June 2021, by Enzo TraversoThe Paris Commune ended on this day [28 May] in 1871, after just two months in power. How do we explain the longevity and freshness of the memory of a fleeting revolutionary government?
The revolutionary relevance of Rosa Luxemburg
22 April 2021, by Michael Löwy“A real re-foundation of communism in the twenty-first century will not be able to do without the revolutionary, Marxist, democratic, socialist and libertarian message of Rosa Luxemburg.”
My journey was no different than others
22 April 2021, by Farooq TariqFarooq Tariq, general secretary of the Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee, a network of peasant organisations in Pakistan, outlines an activist’s life.
The EU and Energy - and the three white elephants
22 April 2021, by Mikael HertoftOne got the feeling that Frans Timmermans came flying in on a white elephant when he presented the EU solution for the future ’green’ economy on 8 July: Hydrogen – the fuel that can be produced cleanly and must be used in the new hydrogen economy. Unfortunately, the road to the hydrogen economy is paved with CO2 emissions – and the EU solution has both economics, as well as natural laws, against it.
Western Imperialism and the Role of Sub-imperialism in the Global South
22 April 2021, by Ana Garcia, Miguel Borba , Patrick Bond“As seen above, multinational corporations from BRICS countries, as well as projects financed by BRICS institutions, are reinforcing accumulation patterns that are socially and environmentally predatory, destroying the forms of life and work of populations in their territories. In order to overcome this predicament, South-South relations must be built with profound respect for counter-hegemonic social forces in these countries, as well as at the global scale.”
Hugo Blanco, the Peruvian ecosocialist
22 April 2021, by Plaza Tomada“Of course I am an ecosocialist, as are the indigenous peoples — even if they do not use that term”.
Beethoven: The first rocker
30 November 2020, by Angela KleinTwo hundred and fifty years after Beethoven’s birth in December 1770 what is the relevance of this great composer?
Engels: theorist of war, theorist of revolution
30 November 2020, by Gilbert AchcarOn the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Frederick Engels we republish this appreciation.
- Ernest Mandel - The Reasons for Founding the Fourth International
- Penelope Duggan - Ernest Mandel: partybuilder and pedagogue
- Eduardo Lucita - Thirty years since the death of Ernest Mandel
- Ernest Mandel - The strategy of transitional demands
- Alex de Jong - Ernest Mandel Was One of the 20th Century’s Greatest Marxist Thinkers
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- Daniel Bensaïd - The tragic solitude of the Palestinians
- Daniel Bensaïd - Myths and legends of domination
- Darren Roso - Daniel Bensaïd’s “Untimely Marx”
- Alex Callinicos - Daniel Bensaïd and the broken time of politics
- Alain Badiou - Tribute to Daniel Bensaïd - a “distant comrade”
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- Kostas Skordoulis, OKDE-Spartakos - Eleni Varikas: the years with the FI in Greece
- Alan Wald - Eleni Varikas (1949-2026)
- Daniel Tanuro, Gilbert Leclercq - Memories of Gilbert Leclercq
- Alexandre Raguet - Serge Chasseuil (1953-1972) has left us
- Collective - Our comrade and friend Henri Benoits (1926-2025)
- More articles...
- Mary Therese L. Norbe - Women and girls fear for their safety in the Philippines, as earthquake aftershocks continue to rock Northern Cebu
- Perempuan Mahardhika - Women cannot win decent work and freedom from violence under the anti-democratic regime in Indonesia:
- Feminist Workshop - “Russia has erased Ukrainian feminist history”
- Ralf Ruckus, Yige Dong - The Crisis of Social Reproduction, Women’s Agency, and Feminism in China
- Amandla!, Denia Jansen - Tackling GBV in the rural areas
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- Bridgette Nkomana, Amandla! - GBV in the LGBTQIA+ community: what is the picture and what are the ways to counter it?
- Yong-hui Hong - Transphobic hate is not an opinion but a crime that endangers the lives of transgender people
- Peter Drucker - Kevin Floyd’s Foundational Queer Marxism: A Tribute
- Arya Meroni - Marxism and the oppression of trans people
- Socialist Resistance - Trans Liberation and Socialist Feminism
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- Éric Toussaint - Rosa Luxemburg and debt as an imperialist instrument - Part 1
- Éric Toussaint - Russia: Origin and consequences of the debt repudiation of February 10, 1918
- Éric Toussaint - Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Incrimination Pt 1
- Éric Toussaint - Yanis Varoufakis’s Account of the Greek Crisis: a Self-Incrimination Pt 2
- Joel Geier, Lee Sustar - World economy: The return of crisis
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- Socialist Democracy - The pandemic is a symptom of capitalism’s sickness: Workers should look to their own survival
- PRT, Mexico - Political statement on the COVID-19 pandemic emergency
- National Secretariat of the PST (Socialist Workers Party) Algeria - Let’s act for self-organization and against the coronavirus and the authoritarian temptations of the regime!
- Solidarity National Committee - A Medical, Economic and Social Crisis
- James Fortin, Jeff Mackler - Coronavirus threatens the lives of billions
- More articles...
- Camile Dagher - Concerning the long-term solution
- Julien Salingue - Evolution of the "non-Islamic" national movement in Palestine since the 1980s
- Roland Rance - The impact of the Zionist project on Palestine and the region
- Salah Jaber - The imperialist strategy of the US in the Middle East
- Tony Richardson - Report on new unions in Palestine
- More articles...
- Jaime Pastor - New Disorder, Geopolitical Transition and Militarization of Europe
- Anti*Capitalist Resistance - Oppose the Trump‑Putin axis, oppose European rearmament
- Gippò Mukendi Ngandu - For a campaign against rearmament, wars and imperialism
- Gilbert Achcar - In support of “synchronized global disarmament”
- Left Bloc - Europe in the Trump-Putin Axis Trap
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- CPBML - On the Situation in Venezuela
- ZASO - Build solidarity with the people of Venezuela - Reject US imperialist aggression
- Liga de Unidad Socialista - Stop Washington’s imperialist escalation! Solidarity with the peoples of Venezuela and Latin America!
- Socialist People’s Forum - US Hands Off Venezuela!
- Luís Bonilla-Molina - The United States takes Venezuela’s territory and government by storm
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Ernest Mandel Archive
Ernest Mandel (1923-1995) was the outstanding theorist of revolutionary maxism in the second half of the 20th century. The author of numerous books and articles on Marxist economics, he functioned for nearly 50 years as an active leader of the Fourth International, reflecting on rapidly changing social reality, and helping to orientate revolutionary marxists world-wide.
Daniel Bensaïd archive
In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations
Feminism
This section groups articles about women organizing as well as discussions of forms and analyses of women’s oppression.
Sexual politics
Economic and debt crisis
This section brings together articles on the economic and debt crisis, notably since the 2008 crisis. It includes reports given at the international economics seminar held in the International Institute for Research and Education in October 2009.
Covid-19 - Statements
Palestine seminar 2009
These articles are talks given at the seminar on Palestine held at the International Institute for Research and Education in February 2009. The seminar proposed a resolution on the situation in Gaza to the FI leadership which was adopted in February 2009.
Rearming Europe
Venezuela 2026
- Anarchists in wartime. The experience of Solidarity Collectives in Ukraine
- Iran’s regime in a predicament of its own making
- Manifesto for an Ecosocialist Revolution: Possible consequences in the Philippines
- Introduction to the Manifesto for an Ecosocialist Revolution: Work Less, Live Better
- After the 1973 Coup in Chile
- The coup in Chile
- The Chile Coup and after
- The rising class consciousness of the proletariat and the problem of power
- Debate on the counter revolution in Chile (1973)
- Against Campism, for International Working-Class Solidarity
- Free Syria scares Israel, that’s why it sows hatred and occupies
- HTS must reject Assad-era neoliberalism
- Surrealism as a revolutionary movement
- An inflexible intervention for the liberation struggle of the Tamil people!
- Marching to a Different Drummer
- Andreas Malm: "Targeting SUVs or private jets can help struggles »
- Commons: A Ukrainian left-wing collective intellectual
- In Honour of Marijke
- Thank you Marijke! Having met you inspires us to continue..
- Western diplomats offer rotten climate carrot, and wield broken sanctions stick
- International food crisis and proposals to overcome it
- Internationalism, Anti-Imperialism, And the Origins of Campism
- Theoretical and practical conclusions of Marxist feminism
- Tribute to Daniel Bensaïd - a “distant comrade”
- Friedrich Engels and Primitive Communism
- Nancy Fraser: “Cannibal Capitalism” Is on Our Horizon
- Ecological Imperialism and Jair Bolsonaro’s Agenda in Brazil
- Ernest Mandel’s ‘Introduction to Marxist Theory’
- Struggling against Islamophobia without lapsing into Orientalism
- Reda Ibrahim Farag - Egyptian revolutionary Marxist
- Bill Onasch: The life of a Marxist in the American workers movement
- The relevance of the theory of permanent revolution and its topicality
- Rayner O’Connor Lysaght Presente!
- Feminism: women fighting for their rights have always met resistance from male power …
- Marxism and the oppression of trans people
- Trans Liberation and Socialist Feminism
- “What does Rossana say?”
- The History of Women’s Movements in Asia and the Middle East
- Gisèle Halimi: A courageous anti-colonialist and feminist lawyer
- Luis Sepulveda, revolutionary activist and Chilean writer, has died from Covid-19
- Women, race and class in social movements: An extract
- Farewell Comrade Lal Khan
- Thinking and acting from Marxism today - Feminist proposals for a theoretical and strategic rearmament
- Tribute to David Sanders (5 August 1945 – 30 August 2019), Revolutionary humanist and socialist
- Maria José Belo Meca Maranhão
- Change Everything: Foundations and Challenges of the Feminist Strike in Spain
- Nicaragua: The other revolution betrayed
- The Political Economy of Hungary’s New “Slave Law”
- Helena Lopes da Silva (1949-2018)
- Adam Smith and the Yellow Vest Movement.
- A last farewell to Mick Woods
- Fifty years after the revolutions of ‘68
- The spirit of 1968 is inextinguishable – even 50 years later
- Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia: 1968 as the antipodes of 1989
- The Russian Revolution, Black Bolshevichki and Social Reproduction
- The strategic role of the soviets in the class struggle
- On the contribution of the outstanding Hungarian Marxist philosopher István Mészáros (1930-2017) to critical thinking
- After Alienation
- Identity Politics Can Only Get Us So Far
- Queer sexuality, labour and nation
- From the concept of the people to the materialization of a leader?
- Being Brave Because It Is Right
- Voting on Dictatorship
- Lenin and Trotsky confronting the bureaucracy
- World economy: The return of crisis
- Xi Jinping’s China – An extremely complex transition whose outcome remains unpredictable
- Part 3: Argentina - Further Action against Illegitimate Debt
- “The Hammer Blow of the Revolution”
- Remembering the riots of spring 1976 in China
- Newly Independent Greece had an Odious Debt round her Neck
- Origins, dynamics and developments of the revolutionary process
- “Daniel Bensaïd fought to the end against a system that knows no bounds in brutality”
- New capitalist domination and imperialism in Africa
- Capitalism and Gender Oppression
- The Intersectional Conundrum and the Nation-State
- Closing the Conceptual Gap
- The biodiversity crisis and the environmentalist left
- Environment: The foundations of revolutionary eco-socialism
- The state of reproductive rights in 2015
- The social movement for independence and the crisis of the British state
- The European Central Bank’s true priorities
- The big private banks run on LTRO
- South Korea : the miracle unmasked
- “Leaps Leaps Leaps”: Lenin and politics
- LGBT Activism in Mainland China
- The Notion of the Revolutionary Crisis in Lenin
- Remarks on Gender
- The World Bank and the IMF in Indonesia: an emblematic interference
- The World Bank and the Philippines
- Early Soviet Commitment to Environment Protection and its Decline
- United States : the Fed Bails Out Wall Street
- World Bank and IMF support to dictatorships
- Domination of the United States on the World Bank
- Private banks shamefully enjoy a monopoly of lending to the public sector
- Governments make Gifts Galore to Private Banks
- Central Banks lend massively to the banking sector
- The Impunity Enjoyed by the Banks must Stop
- Complicity of Dexia in very serious Human Rights violations in the Israeli occupied territories
- The Big Banks Organise Massive Tax Evasion on an International Scale
- Big banks’ tampering with interest rates
- Drug and Bank Lords
- Banks and the New “Too Big to Jail” Doctrine
- The cancellation of German debt in 1953 versus the attitude to the Third World and Greece
- Why the Marshall Plan ?
- SUNFED versus World Bank
- Early conflicts between the UN and the World Bank/IMF tandem
- The World Bank assists the powerful witch-hunters
- Concerning the founding of the Bretton Woods’ Institutions
- Women and the Early Years of Japanese Communism
- Freedom Summer, 1964: An Overview
- The personal and the political
- James Hansen’s ’exit strategy’ from global warming
- A Fossil Fuel Exit Program
- The roots and grassroots of the Syrian revolution
- Precarity as contraceptive: conversations on the situation of abortion in Spain
- 100th Anniversary of The Woman’s Dreadnought
- Clara Zetkin in the lion’s den – Workers’ unity and feminism at the 1921 Comintern congress
- The Liberation of Women
- "We Shall Overcome": Honoring Pete Seeger
- Luxemburg and Trotsky on Russian Revolution
- An Interview with Alan Sears
- Socialist Feminism – Hidden from Herstory
- The Fourth International and women’s liberation
- The feminist challenge to traditional political organisations
- The forgotten history of the “class struggle feminist” current
- The implications of gender equality at work on female workers from 1968 to the 1980s in France
- The transitional program and the tools to overthrow capitalism
- General Vo Nguyen Giap (1911-2013): Military hero, revolutionary intellectual, environmentalist
- Norman Geras: “An adult life divided into two distinct chapters”
- Idalberto Ferrera Acosta (1918-2013), Cuban Trotskyist
- In women’s liberation the first step is self-consciousness
- For an anticapitalist feminism in the here and now
- Dangerous Liaisons: The marriages and divorces of Marxism and Feminism
- Feminism to the tune of the cumbia, corrida, tango, cueca, samba . . .
- Women and work in Western Europe
- Jean-Michel Krivine (1932-2013): a militant surgeon and an internationalist
- 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
- 1993: The nature of social-democratic reformism
- Lessons from a Critical Intellectual
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The collapse of the national currency and the economy, hyperinflation and wage stagnation are the ingredients of the massive mobilisation that started on Sunday 28 December in the Tehran bazaar and spread to many towns and universities.
- read article...Solidarity Against Communal Violence, Fundamentalism, and State Complicity
This Joint Political Statement by the Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist) and Radical Socialist (India) was issued on 25 December 2025.
- read article...Against arbitrariness and repression: Freedom for our comrade Lyes Touati!
“Although he is outraged and indignant at his arbitrary imprisonment, he has not lost his legendary smile despite the deep sense of injustice [hogra in Arabic].”
- read article...Call for donations to ESSF’s Asia 2026 Solidarity Fund - A time of youth revolts, people’s power, and ecosocialist alternatives
“We face a deadly spiral of combined crises (the ’polycrisis’), to which the established political and economic powers are offering no response. Poverty and widespread insecurity continue to spread. However, in recent months, in the face of humanitarian disasters, protest movements have taken on a new dimension, with impressive demonstrations and uprisings. Asia is at the heart of these developments, including Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines, where our partners are based.”
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