Morten Hammeken goes “In Search of Russia’s Lost Opposition” and Ilya Budraitskis explains “Why Russia’s ruling class is obsessed with the West”. Tony Wood details why “Latin America Is the Prime Target for Trump’s Warmongering” and Federico Fuentes analyses “Venezuela after the coup ”.
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- 14 February – Russia, Latin America, Venezuela
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Britain
Roots of the Labour Crisis
20 February, byThe Starmer projest is crashing.
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USA
Lessons from Minneapolis
19 February, by“The outpouring of protest and support for immigrants is a multiracial fightback based in the working class with anti-racist politics at its heart. It is a powerful antidote to Trump’s use of anti-immigrant scapegoating.”
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Netherlands
Jetten 1: harsh neoliberal policies to continue
18 February, by“That direction is hard right, outspokenly neoliberal, completely antisocial and a choice in favour of capital. It is a direction of severe cuts to social services, attacks on migrants and refugees, giving free rein to businesses and increasing militarization.”
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France
In Lyons, the regrettable consequences of the fascist atmosphere
17 February, by“More than ever, we need to build a united mass front capable of pushing back the fascists at the ballot box, but above all in the streets, in neighbourhoods and in workplaces.”
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Italy
Remigration and (it is) fascism
16 February, byTrumpism with an Italian twist is on the rise: don’t underestimate it, get organised to stop it!
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Recently posted Features
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Fourth International and women’s liberation
The Liberation of Women
31 January 2014, byread article...This article was written in May 1960 and originally published in Quatrième Internationale. This translation is from Fourth International, Autumn 1960. We are publishing it as part of our effort to constute an archive of the Fourth International’s writings on women’s liberation.
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Obituary
"We Shall Overcome": Honoring Pete Seeger
29 January 2014, byread article...Tributes are pouring in to honor the memory and legacy of Pete Seeger. Among so many other contributions to the movements for social justice, he was a supporter of the struggle for rank and file union power. Ken Paff, national organizer of Teamsters for a Democratic Union, recalls his support of TDU with a Detroit benefit concert in April, 1985. [Republished from Solidarity January 29, 2014.]
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Political theory
Luxemburg and Trotsky on Russian Revolution
20 January 2014, byread article...The so-called “Leninist” orthodoxy is history, and the campaign that Stalin and his ideologists launched for decades against “Luxemburgism”, which they identified since 1931 with their most hated nightmare, “Trotskyism”, has fallen into oblivion. So we are free to examine the Marxist theories on the structure of the Russian society and the prospects of a revolutionary uprising against the rule of the Czar – written a century ago –, in order to explore the capacity of these theories to present an explanation of the state of affairs – one hundred years ago – and a prognosis of its future development (in and after 1917).
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Queering Socialism:
An Interview with Alan Sears
29 December 2013, byread article...We’re at an interesting (and terrible) moment where we’re witnessing attacks on most every gain working people have made for at least the last half century. The curious exception to that has been the advance of marriage and civil rights for gay and lesbian couples in many U.S. states and core imperialist countries. But while we can celebrate the dismantling of many of the legal barriers to equality, we need to be mindful of the cost assimilation has had on “gay” communities, the movement’s relationship to other progressive causes, and lastly how it measures up to radical ideas of gender and sexual freedom.
