The 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?
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Latest update : 3 June.
This section contains articles on theoretical, analytical and historical themes usually longer than articles published in the news magazine section.
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I50 years of the Paris Commune
Why the Paris Commune Still Resonates, 150 Years Later
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Marxism
The revolutionary relevance of Rosa Luxemburg
22 April, 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.”
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Pakistan
My journey was no different than others
22 April, by Farooq TariqFarooq Tariq, general secretary of the Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee, a network of peasant organisations in Pakistan, outlines an activist’s life.
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The EU’s weak point: Energy
The EU and Energy - and the three white elephants
22 April, 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.
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Imperialism today
Western Imperialism and the Role of Sub-imperialism in the Global South
22 April, 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.”
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Peru
Hugo Blanco, the Peruvian ecosocialist
22 April, by Plaza Tomada“Of course I am an ecosocialist, as are the indigenous peoples — even if they do not use that term”.
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Music
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?
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Marxism
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.
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Covid-19 pandemic and economy
The crisis triggered by the pandemic and the economic policy of the European Union
16 September 2020, by Daniel AlbarracínThis chapter will address the pandemic crisis at the level of political economy and, in particular, the fundamental decisions that the European Union is adopting, whose measures will take precise form once its particular institutional procedure is completed.
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Political theory
Analysing global capitalism
24 August 2020, by Phil HearseSocialist Resistance and Mutiny are organisations in Britain which are both part of a process of forming a wider organisation which has the provisional name of Anti-Capitalist Resistance. Over the past six months, Mutiny has had a dialogue with American Marxist theorist William I Robinson. Phil Hearse, a Mutiny member who also supports Socialist Resistance, wrote a ‘presentation’ of Robinson for SR members, strongly supporting some of his ideas, while raising concerns about imperialism and Robinson’s ideas about a ‘transnational capitalist’ class’. We publish this below, together with a rejoinder from William I Robinson.
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- “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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Women’s rights in Algeria
With all Algerian women
May 2021
The abject crime committed in Bordj Badji Mokhtar against the women teachers is the crime of too much. Everyone must denounce it and express strong solidarity with the victims and with all Algerian women.
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Solidarity with the Palestinians against colonial aggression!
May 2021
“No “just solution” can be found without satisfying all their rights: an end to the civil and military occupation, equal rights, the right to self-determination and the right of return.”
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Arrest of seven Italian ex-militants: Macron tougher than Sarkozy!
Statement by the NPA
May 2021
“In the face of this climate of increasing security and freedom, our anger and solidarity remain intact.”
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Conviction on All Three Counts in Chauvin Trial, Bail Revoked
April 2021
Malik Miah updated his article “The Lynching of George Floyd: Truth vs. Copaganda” after the verdict was announced.
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New escalation in the Donbass and the position of the socialists
Statement by Russian Socialist Movement
April 2021
“Our main enemy, of course, in our own country, it is the regime of Putin and his friends with their billion-dollar fortunes. No war but a class war!”
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