“So while there is a new leadership, it has not been propelled to power either by a widespread militant worker upsurge in the workplaces nor by a powerful movement for reform.”
Starmer, migration and the economy
15 December 2022, by“Labour are now to the right of the Tories on immigration”.
One Thousand Trans March in Tokyo in Solidarity with Transgender People
14 December 2022, by“What is important is to challenge transphobic behavior and attitudes continuously rather than being bound by the peripheral argument about the transgender peoples’ movement.”
From Pedro Castillo to Dina Boluarte or the endless crisis in Peru
13 December 2022, byIn an almost inexplicable leap into the void, the Peruvian president tried to shut down Congress, a Congress which wanted to remove him. A few minutes later, he was arrested and replaced by the vice president.
Feminists are protesting against the wave of anti-feminism that’s swept South Korea
12 December 2022, byFeminists in South Korea are planning to conduct nationwide protests against gender-based violence this weekend, the first to occur simultaneously in several major cities since the pandemic.
The geopolitics of crisis
11 December 2022, by“The Korean crisis contributes to the general dynamic of militarization underway on the Eurasian continent and in the Indo-Pacific, with its attendant humanitarian disasters, from Ukraine to Burma, as it contributes to the acceleration of global warming that has spiralled out of control.”
Nicaragua: Daniel Ortega & the Ghost of Louis Bonaparte
10 December 2022, byIn The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx referred to the Napoleonic return to power in the French coup of 1851 as “first as tragedy, then as farce.” There could be no more fitting a characterization of the saga of Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega’s conversion — in about as many years as had lapsed from the fall of the first Napoleon Bonaparte to the coup carried out by his nephew Louis —from a socialist revolutionary to a repressive and corrupt petty dictator.
The putschist right removed Castillo - we must fight to get rid of congress reforms, for new elections and a second ballot for a constituent assembly
9 December 2022, by“To achieve these demands, organisation and struggle are a necessary fundamental tool that we workers and the people have.”
Solidarity Statement with Protests in China
8 December 2022, by ,A joint statement published in Against the Current, New Politics, Spectre, and Tempest.