The sort of anti-authoritarian politics that mainstream liberals embrace is long on bellicosity and short on policies or activism to address the erosion of working-class living standards and democratic rights.
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A message from President Chris Smalls
The founder and president of the Amazon Labor Union (ALU) wants workers to know his long history of dedication to Amazon and the workers, and what has brought him to be leading this campaign to build the first Amazon labor union in the country on behalf of all Amazon workers.
The right book at the right time
Joe is a well-respected labor activist and writer who has previously written the excellent books Strike Back and Reviving the Strike. His latest book will certainly provoke much discussion.
Revisiting US war crimes III: Systematic torture as policy
Revelations of torture in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Guantanamo Bay persisted as the US occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan continued, while the U.S. sent “suspects” to secret prisons in foreign countries to be tortured, a procedure it sanitized with the label “rendition”.
The rise and fall of Imran Khan
By constantly repeating the claim of an alleged American conspiracy to oust him, Khan has successfully retained his base to some extent. It is possible that the no confidence motion was not orchestrated by the Americans, but it served their interests.
Israeli Forces accused of ‘barbaric premeditated attack’ on Palestinian worshipers
More than 150 Palestinians were injured as Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem.
“When he was up there, we was signing people up”
The expectation of a strike wave in October, dubbed “Striketober”, was greatly exaggerated by both the mainstream and left press. Amazon, however, is the real thing. The sheer numbers involved show this is a real victory.
The war on inflation
Inflation globally will not subside until a new slump emerges, signalling that the central bank war on inflation has been lost.
France: Building a fighting left in the face of Macron’s second five-year term
The result of the failure of social democracy is that social emergencies do not find answers if we do not bring into play the balance of power of social mobilization, if we do not attack to the capitalist system.
A memorandum on the radical anti-imperialist position regarding the war in Ukraine
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is the second defining moment of the New Cold War in which the world has been plunged since the turn of the century as a result of the US decision to expand NATO.
Revisiting US war crimes II: NATO’s 1999 bombing of the former Yugoslavia
Here, we reprint an editorial from the International Socialist Review examining NATO’s sustained bombing of the former Yugoslavia for more than two months in 1999, when civilians again paid the price.
Revisiting US war crimes: The 1991 Gulf War
The ISP reprints this article with the reminder of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King who, in 1967, called the U.S. government “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.”
Russian imperialism under Putin
Imperialist countries invade weaker nations and try to impose their rule over them. Once the world is divided up by the great powers, one imperialist’s gain can come only at the expense of another. That is the nub of the matter today.
The Ukrainian-Syrian-Russian triangle and the world
The relations between Western powers and Russia have never been closer to war since WWII than after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, while the US and Russia was never closer to each other than in Syria after the chemical deal in September 2013.
Understanding Putin’s Russia
Putin’s approval rating spiked after the 2014 annexation of Crimea, as it had fifteen years earlier with the bombing of Chechnya. An ideological climate of conservatism and nationalism has dominated the country for almost ten years, at least among older Russians.
