What this little story of GameStop shows is that company and personal pension funds run by the ‘smart people’ are really a rip-off for working people. What is needed are state funded pensions not subject to the volatility of the financial game.
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Hunts Point Strike: Fightback is possible!
When the working class movement is seen as a movement of action and struggle, people become open to its fundamental world outlook. Ideas of class solidarity and unity come forward.
With Biden there will be more “color revolutions” in Latin America
If Trump’s term was abominable, Biden’s will be no less so. Let’s remember that the war in Syria, the liquidation of the Arab spring, and the invasion of Libya were promoted and managed by the team that is now returning to the White House.
The limits of Biden’s plan to “rescue” US foreign policy
Biden wants to draw a sharp contrast with Trump, but their foreign policies share similar assumptions, especially that of seeing China as the U.S.’s main competitor, economically and militarily, in the future.
Chicago teachers say, “Safe Return or No Return!”
The most probable explanation for Lightfoot’s rush to reopen the school system is class vindictiveness towards the CTU. Lightfoot feels, correctly, that she was bested by the CTU in the 2019 strike.
Statement of ISP on current Washington events
However shocking, these events shouldn’t surprise us. In the last few years, our sense of what is politically “normal” has been stretched.
The working class and Covid in the New Year
Many jobs are never going to comeback. This is not just the case in small businesses that have gone under. Capital is using the pandemic to reorganize itself.
International Socialism Project contribution to socialist discussion of 2021 perspectives
Our common movement can only benefit from a comradely discussion among those who are both committed to building broader struggles and opposed to the dead end of lesser evilism.
Healthcare workers fight both the virus and the employers
The length of a healthcare strike during a medical crisis is a thorny problem that unionists will need to think carefully about. Instant cries of bureaucratic betrayal may miss the mark.
Trump’s election challenges disintegrate
The fact that Trump has failed miserably in his attempt to overturn the election doesn’t mean that he will give up trying. Some impulsive gimmick such as a “Counter-Inauguration” is certainly on the cards.
A new revolutionary organization? Opening the discussion
Tactical proposals on how to advance the movement are only valuable if there exists an organization and militants to carry them out. Individual activists lack the striking power and impetus of an organization.
Marxist economics with minimal huffing and puffing
Hadas Thier’s A People’s Guide to Capitalism is written to explain Marxism to young activists in today’s America. However, this book is more than just an introduction to political economy…
The myth of Lenin’s elitism
Lenin was fundamentally anti-elitist—not in the sense of anarchists who simply deny the necessity of leadership in struggle, but in the sense of grasping that leadership is a product of the uneven development of consciousness and activity in the working class…
Engels on nature and humanity
For Marx and Engels, the possibility of ending the dialectical contradiction between man and nature and bringing about some level of harmony and ecological balance would only be possible with the abolition of the capitalist mode of production.
Trump lost, but no “blue tsunami”
The only thing that can alter that course of events is mass struggle, and a genuine commitment to political activity independent of the Democrats’ electoral calculations.
