In the seven swing states that will determine the electoral college votes, surveys show the race to be tied or within a point or two for either candidate.
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Election 2024: Impossible to predict a winner
November 1, 2024In the seven swing states that will determine the electoral college votes, surveys show the race to be tied or within a point or [...] -
No pensions, no planes!
October 28, 2024The Boeing strikers voted, by a 64% majority, on October 23 to reject the company’s latest contract proposal. This is a [...] -
Boeing strike: Workers confront a troubled giant
October 13, 2024The strike is now in its fourth week and appears to be holding the line. Picket lines are lively and well attended. Food, wood, [...] -
Harris jumps on the anti-immigrant bandwagon
October 4, 2024If we look at the migrant crisis from outside the realm of grubby electoral politics, we see that the current crisis is the [...] -
Teamsters pave the way for Trump
September 28, 2024We live in dangerous times. While the traditional, mainstream parties that the working classes across the globe may still be able [...] -
Workers for Trump?
September 21, 2024As always, the Democrats hope that the fear of Trump and Project 2025 will be enough to hold their supporters in line. But the [...]
- Where do workers’ struggles stand today?
- Teamsters über alles?
- Continuing the discussion on Teamster politics
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‘Should shame the world’: Famine takes hold in Gaza as Israel cuts off food imports
October 24, 2024Israel's obstruction of humanitarian assistance and repeated attacks on aid convoys have sparked catastrophe in the Palestinian [...] -
Everything everywhere all at once: The Israeli offensive today
October 19, 2024Even though serious bourgeois newspapers have gone into hysterical overdrive about Sinwar’s killing, it’s not going to [...] -
Middle East on the brink: Current situation and future prospects
October 9, 2024Capitalism has transformed the vast wealth of petroleum and minerals in the Middle East into a curse for its people. The [...]
- Hezbollah’s miscalculation
- Netanyahu is rebooting the new Nakba
- From Taliban to BJP: The far right and religious fundamentalism in South Asia
Marxism
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A new Spring for Labour?
May 17, 2024Union revitalization will happen when unions make themselves relevant for both highly-skilled employees and solo self-employed [...] -
The legacy and relevance of Lenin after 100 years
February 14, 2024Lenin, in the final analysis, like every other human being, was the product of his times. But he was not an ordinary product. He [...] -
Why workers need their own party (part 2)
June 3, 2023The previous installment of this two-part series covered the emergence of independent working-class politics in the era of Marx [...]
- Why workers need their own party (part 1)
- Eric Blanc’s political metamorphosis
- Who Is working-class, and why it matters
History
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When Afghanistan was red!
April 29, 2024In official writings and textbooks, the civil war in Afghanistan began on December 24, 1979, when Russian (Soviet) troops [...] -
The legacy and relevance of Lenin after 100 years
February 14, 2024Lenin, in the final analysis, like every other human being, was the product of his times. But he was not an ordinary product. He [...] -
Remembering September 11, 1973: the US backed Pinochet coup in Chile
September 7, 2023This September marks the 50th anniversary of the US backed coup by Pinochet in Chile. It was one of the heaviest and bloodiest [...]
- Revisiting U.S. war crimes IV: Vietnam (Part III)
- Revisiting U.S. war crimes IV: Vietnam (Part II)
- Revisiting U.S. war crimes IV: Vietnam (Part I)
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No pensions, no planes!
The Boeing strikers voted, by a 64% majority, on October 23 to reject the company’s latest contract proposal. This is a significant development in the most important workers’ struggle in the country today.
‘Should shame the world’: Famine takes hold in Gaza as Israel cuts off food imports
Israel’s obstruction of humanitarian assistance and repeated attacks on aid convoys have sparked catastrophe in the Palestinian enclave.
Everything everywhere all at once: The Israeli offensive today
Even though serious bourgeois newspapers have gone into hysterical overdrive about Sinwar’s killing, it’s not going to fundamentally change the situation. Of course, the killing of a central leader is a serious blow to Hamas. But Hamas is a mass organization; other leaders will be selected.
Boeing strike: Workers confront a troubled giant
The strike is now in its fourth week and appears to be holding the line. Picket lines are lively and well attended. Food, wood, and other picket line supplies are being provided. There is $250 a week strike pay. Members of other unions have been joining the line to express solidarity. The highly technical nature of the work will make finding sufficiently trained scabs hard.
Middle East on the brink: Current situation and future prospects
Capitalism has transformed the vast wealth of petroleum and minerals in the Middle East into a curse for its people. The existence of Israel is akin to a cancer on the body of the region, grafted to ensure the continuation of imperialist yoke and dominance. The entire Arab ruling elite is complicit in this imperialist project. The Palestinians have no friends, no sympathizers except for the oppressed and exploited people of the world.
Hezbollah’s miscalculation
Recent days have made it clear that Hezbollah’s perception of “mutual deterrence” between it and the Zionist state did not sufficiently take into account the unequal nature of this deterrence (a miscalculation similar to Hamas’s, albeit much less serious), and that its perception of the commitment of its sponsor in Tehran to defending it was also illusory, as Iran responded to the repeated attacks that Israel has been launching directly against it only once, last April, and in a manner that was almost more symbolic than harmful.
Harris jumps on the anti-immigrant bandwagon
If we look at the migrant crisis from outside the realm of grubby electoral politics, we see that the current crisis is the product of decades of U.S. imperialism and domestic political dysfunction. Decades of neoliberal economic “reform” have helped to destroy whole sectors of the Central American economies.
Netanyahu is rebooting the new Nakba
If Israel is to be successful in its historic aim of removing all Palestinians “from the river to the sea”, it needs a new shot in the arm. The dynamism that followed October 7 has run its course. A reboot is needed. This is the number one reason for the recent attacks on Hezbollah and Lebanon.
Teamsters pave the way for Trump
We live in dangerous times. While the traditional, mainstream parties that the working classes across the globe may still be able to pull off an election victory, they have continued to decline in the face of confident far right masquerading as “working class” parties.
Workers for Trump?
As always, the Democrats hope that the fear of Trump and Project 2025 will be enough to hold their supporters in line. But the fact that Trump continues to lead among people who say that the economy is their main concern, and that concerns about inflation—which hits lower income people the hardest—is still top of mind, both work against the incumbent vice president.
Where do workers’ struggles stand today?
There is something in the air. You can feel it in something as simple as the amount of honking as people drive by picket lines. This was certainly the mood last summer. But this momentum needs new fresh events and struggles to sustain itself.
Teamsters über alles?
With the Teamsters and O’Brien coming under heavy criticism, a siege mentality has gripped the union with pressure on well-known Teamster activists to demonstrate loyalty to O’Brien.
From Taliban to BJP: The far right and religious fundamentalism in South Asia
The roots of religious fundamentalism with all its forms, formations and faces in South Asia should be looked for in the historic evolution of these societies under colonialism, imperialism and subsequently the independent rule of a lackey bourgeoisie. With the uneven and combined pattern of development, the noxious amalgamation of impoverishment, religious prejudices and superstitions of the foregone times, partial modernity, socio-cultural remnants of feudalism and tribalism, finance capital and black money has only complicated the evolution of these countries.
Continuing the discussion on Teamster politics
It matters whether a particular union leadership is encouraging or blocking a particular struggle. Socialists are therefore not indifferent to different trends in the union leadership and pay careful attention to them in order to chart their possible impact on our fundamental task, the battle with the employers.
