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• USA

  Two Dead Americans—Two Americas

  20 July, by Dan La Botz

  Last week, the nation’s attention focused on two dead Americans, two men who couldn’t be more different, two men who seem to embody the nation’s divided politics, culture, and morality. One was John Lewis, the African American civil rights leader and legislator who died five years ago. The other was Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy socialite and convicted pedophile who provided elite businessmen and politicians access to underage girls.

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• Britain

  Starmer’s first year – things can only get worse

  19 July, by Dave Kellaway

  Sitting in number 10 Downing Street after the government’s debacle and U turn over the welfare, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney must have thought: these people are so ungrateful.
  “Here they are taking a wrecking ball to Reeves and Kendall’s project to save £5 billion with welfare cuts. But I made these MPs. I ensured nearly every left wing candidate had been eliminated early from any selection process. My team assiduously sifted through thousands of social (…)

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• Latvia

  Let Vlad stay

  18 July, by Maiznica

  A Riga-based social-centre project called “Maiznica” is facing repression from state security services and the expulsion of one of their members from the country. In this press release from the Collective they aim to spread the news to a wider audience.

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• Syria

  Syria and the Dangers of Playing with Fire

  17 July, by Gilbert Achcar

  Whatever is the origin of the recent bloody clashes in the Suwayda Governorate—whether they were merely the result of the chaos prevailing in post-Assad Syria, or a manoeuvre by Israel in order to escalate its hypocritical intervention in the region, or a manoeuvre by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) to extend its control over southern Syria—what is unmistakable is that the first factor, the prevailing chaos, provided the conditions for the explosion.

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• Kosova

  Remembering Srebrenica 30 Years On

  16 July, by Geoff Ryan

  11 July marked the 30th anniversary of the genocide in July 1995 of over 8,000 largely Bosniak men and male children by Bosnian Serb forces under the command of Ratko Mladic. They were buried in mass graves. Many thousand more fled into the forest and embarked on a harrowing journey lasting up to 7 days before reaching the eastern Bosnia village of Nezuk. What led up to the massacre and how it has been treated compared to two other wars: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians..

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• Chile

  Communist Party triumph and opportunity in an adverse electoral scenario in Chile

• Iran

  Islamic Republic and state racism: we must put an end to this regime!

• USA

  Cracks in Trump’s MAGA Movement

• Togo

  A wave of bloody repression hit the demonstrations in Togo

• Kenya

  Renewed protests in Kenya

Recently posted Features

• Our history

  An open history: Blanqui and Bensaïd

  12 January 2020, by Émile Carmes

  All thinkers have their father-thinkers; none more so than Daniel Bensaïd. The figures of Charles Péguy, Walter Benjamin and Louis Auguste Blanqui recur throughout his work. In this article, Émile Carmes studies Bensaïd’s deep engagement over the years with the work of Blanqui.

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• Feminism and Marxism

  Thinking and acting from Marxism today - Feminist proposals for a theoretical and strategic rearmament

  30 November 2019, by Julia Camara, Laia Facet

  The characteristics of the current crisis, as well as the practical and theoretical course of recent years, have allowed a fruitful dialogue between two of the central theoretical currents of the last two centuries, feminism and Marxism. With a past history of marriages and divorces it seems that in recent years we are witnessing their reconciliation. In the past decade, the literature that is indebted to both currents has been rediscovering, as well as overcoming, some of the historical debates that have marked their relationship. Undoubtedly, the mass growth of the feminist movement has contributed to this. And, on the other hand, it not surprising that during recent years there has been a renewal of academic and activist interest in Marxism: university seminars proliferate, the works of classical thinkers have been reissued and so on.

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• Fourth International

  “Livio Maitan’s last book”

  28 November 2019, by Franco Turigliatto

  This address was given by Franco Turigliatto at the launch of Livio Maitan’s book Memoirs of a critical communist: Towards a history of the Fourth International at the Historical Materialism conference in London in November 2019.

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• Middle East

  Why the Kurds Should Be Supported

  20 November 2019, by Jabra Nicola

  This article, published in 1963 by the Israeli revolutionary socialist group Matzpen, was authored by one of its founders, the Palestinian Marxist Jabra Nicola. At the time the article was written, Iraq was in the midst of a sequence of violent upheavals and military coups that would ultimately result in the ascendance of Saddam Hussein.

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