Sudan is transitioning from a grassroots revolution to a post-revolutionary governmental structure, and from military to civilian control, and doing that in a world where protest has been put on hold. Will the revolution have a hard landing?
One year later, the feminist strike remains mobilised and determined
21 June 2020, by , ,Since the surge of 14 June 2019, the feminist struggle has not stopped, and the collectives have continued to organize. The purple wave, while certainly smaller, still managed to splash across the country on 14 June 2020.
New Cuban blog states editorial line
20 June 2020, byThe Editorial Board of the new Cuban blog Comunistas published its statement of editorial line on 10 June 2020.
Notes on the Black Lives Matter Uprising in Historical and Global Context
19 June 2020, byThis spring, as some countries began to reopen after months of COVID-19 lockdowns, youthful rebellions broke out inside the two most powerful states in the world, the USA and China. The Black youth of Minneapolis, their allies, and countless others across the USA expressed their anger on the streets over yet another police murder, which was one too many. During the same days, the youth of Hong Kong renewed their protests against new anti-democratic moves by the Chinese government. The US protests, which grew into a massive nationwide Black Lives Matter uprising, also had a major international impact. In both cases, the USA and China, the youth did not flinch in the face of brutal police repression, inspiring their elders and many others around the world. These youth face a world of mass unemployment, precipitous economic inequality, and growing racial oppression fueled by right-wing populism, all of it worsened by COVID-19 and the economic meltdown.
The Jewish left is recognizing that apartheid is here
18 June 2020, byIsrael’s Jewish left is abandoning the term ’occupation’ and adopting the word ’apartheid’ to describe the reality on the ground.
Covid-19 changes everything
17 June 2020, byCovid-19 is a huge and many-sided issue. There is the disastrous governmental response leading to thousands of deaths, there is the approaching mass unemployment pandemic, and there is the prospect of the deepest recession for 300 years. These aspects are all hugely important.
Racial Oppression and the Police in Italy
16 June 2020, byIn the last few years, we have seen an increase in discrimination and racial oppression in Italy. In particular, there has been an increase in physically and verbally violent acts that have lead to terrible crimes: Muhammad Shazad Kan, a 28 year-old Pakistani citizen, beaten to death in Rome in 2014; Roberto Pantic, Roma, killed in 2015 by a gun while sleeping in his trailer; Sare Mamadou, killed by a shotgun in the chest because he dared to steal a rotten melon from a field; Emmanuel Chidi Namdi, a 36 year-old recent Nigerian asylum seeker, killed in 2016 because he dared to respond to an insult to his partner; and Soumala Sacko, killed by a gunshot in 2018 while looking for sheet metal to build a makeshift shelter for other workers.
In the name of the communist ideal
15 June 2020, byOne of the received ideas that became a ‘truth’ after the fall of the Berlin Wall was that the Soviet bloc’s populations cursed communism, yet obeyed it slavishly. In fact, many social movements within the Eastern bloc had long aspired to genuine socialism.
The Forgotten Socialists of Tiananmen Square
15 June 2020, byWhat the world remembers about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests were the students. But above all, it was a mass workers’ uprising for socialist democracy.