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  • Obituary

    Troglo: will, initiative and revolutionary generosity

    9 April 2018, by Manuel Garí

    José Ramón Castaños known as Troglo (1950-2018) was a long-time leader of the Fourth Internationalists in the Basque country. he died in April 2018.

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  • Our History

    Did the Russian Revolution Matter for Africa? (Part I)

    23 March 2018, by Matt Swagler

    In the first of a two-part blogpost, Matt Swagler looks at the first years after the Russian revolution (1917-1935), he discusses the impact of the revolution on African liberation movements before World War II. In the second part he will consider the impact of the Soviet Union on African politics, development and activism in the decades after the war.

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  • Economy

    Imperialism Today: A Critical Assessment of Latin American Dependency Theory

    21 March 2018, by Claudio Katz

    Brazilian economist and sociologist Ruy Mauro Marini (1932-1997) was a prime exponent of what became known as dependency theory, an attempt to explain the systemic unequal relations of the Latin American countries in particular with the developed economies of the imperialist “North.” He was a close collaborator of, among others, Vânia Bambirra and the recently-deceased Theotónio Dos Santos. Marini’s best-known work, first published in Spanish in 1972, is Dialectics of Dependency.

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  • USA

    Trump and the Labor Movement

    16 March 2018, by Dan La Botz

    We working people live in darkening times. When the Trump presidency ends in four years—if it does—we may no longer have an organized labor movement. As one of my colleagues, Ed Ott of the Murphy Institute, the City University of New York’s labor school, said to me, “We are at the beginning of the end of the U.S. labor movement based on a partnership with capital.” We are at the twilight of an era. Labor unions and collective bargaining stand to be swept away, and with them the institutions that have sheltered us in the workplace and provided us with a modicum of job security, living wages, health insurance, and pension benefits. [1]

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