“Iran in its current situation has become a powder keg. Given the depth of its internal contradictions, which permeate all levels of society, domestic protests aren’t going anywhere.”
American Bank Failures Once Again Threaten Everyone
20 March 2023, by“Both the banking crisis of 2008 and the current one reveal the irrationality of the capitalist economic system based on private property in both the means of production and finance.”
“The world situation is that of a new cold war”
19 March 2023, by ,“The current upsurge of the far right is not, therefore, a roadblock to communism (or anything that might resemble it) as it was in the 1930s, and capital is not looking for an antileft discourse to replace the Cold War one. Rather, it is primarily a quarrel within capitalism itself against a background of crisis. We are obviously concerned as leftists because they are mortal enemies for us. But we are in another historical configuration. ”
Macron’s up against the wall, let’s not let the 49.3 save him
18 March 2023, by“We must, as has been the case for the last two months, continue to build a social balance of forces equal to the popular rejection of Macron’s reform. Today, he has his back to the wall, a situation that was unforeseeable a few months ago.”
Tory budget – behind the gloss it is the Same Old Tories
17 March 2023, by“The current strike wave, in which hundreds of thousands of workers took action on Budget Day, shows us how working people can act as a group to challenge what the owners of the economy are against: decent wage increases and fixing our education, health, rail, postal, and other public services.”
Election in Nigeria: between disenchantment and hope
16 March 2023, by“The opposition is denouncing massive fraud in a particularly chaotic election. But also hope, because millions of young people have seized on Peter Obi’s candidacy to express their desire for change.”
Feminist resistance in Russia
15 March 2023, by“The Russia of my dreams is first and foremost a democratic society that has overcome atomization.”
France exports its racist theories to Tunisia
14 March 2023, by“The use of racism and repression have once again become the basic techniques for maintaining power of a president whose legitimacy is falling apart at the seams.”
Chicago Mayoral Election Will Be a Battle Between Left and Right
13 March 2023, by“Following an indecisive Democratic Party primary, an epic battle between left and right is shaping up in the election for mayor of the windy city.”
The political economy of the cost of living crisis in the UK: What is to be done?
12 March 2023, bySoaring prices of energy, food, other essentials and rent in 2022, caused by multiple supply chain disruptions after Brexit and the pandemic, followed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, brought an intensive cost of living crisis, exacerbated by inequalities in class, race, gender, as well as the care and ecological crises.
