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| Syria
Unite for the success of the mass national general strike: The strike of dignity! Declaration from Damascus of the Syrian Revolutionary Left Tendency *
A collective call for the mass general strike which will begin on December 11, 2011 has been launched. This call is the first common initiative of all the structures and groups engaged in the popular revolution, which constitutes in itself a significant positive development for the unification of popular and political energies in the revolution against the regime of arbitrariness, oppression and exploitation. We consider that this amounts to a qualitative step towards its fall. -> read article... |
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| Review
Towards a Queer Marxism? Peter Drucker reviews two books on sexuality, socialism and queer Marxism.
Peter Drucker reviews Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation by Sherry Wolf, Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2009, pages, $12 paperback and The Reification of Desire: Toward a Queer Marxism by Kevin Floyd Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009, 271 pages, $25 paperback for Against the Current -> read article... |
| Economic crisis
The crisis of capitalism is used as a pretext to attack collective rightsThe systemic crisis of capitalism puts on the agenda draconian measures which are supposed to make it possible for the capitalists to restore their rate of profit. The counter-reform of pensions in France is just one illustration of this policy. It sums up the economic objectives (to make the workers and the people pay for the crisis) and the social and political objectives (looking for consensus, for ways to get the victims themselves or their representatives to accept such counter-reforms. -> read article... |