The Meidner Plan wasn’t a path to socialism. It wasn’t even an advance in workers’ rights within capitalism. It was a defeat for workers and an attack on their power to organise.
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Bolivia: A popular uprising hijacked by the far right
Evo Morales’s attack on his own social base opened up the space for the right wing to intervene in Bolivia.
More than just a “Spring”: the Arab region’s long-term revolution
The Arab regime is immersed in a long-term revolutionary process that pits youth-led movements against authoritarian rulers and neoliberal capitalism explains Gilbert Achcar, in an interview that first appeared in ROAR magazine on November 8. When in late 2018 the people of Sudan took to the streets demanding an end […]
Greece after Tsipras: a left defeated, the right in power, and the new offensive
Antonis Davanellos analyses the political situation in Greece following the parliamentary elections last July, which saw the return of the right to power, the defeat of Syriza, and the failure of Left.
Bailing out the System: Reformist Socialism in Western Europe
Ian Birchall, in a chapter from his book Bailing Out the System, examines the history of European social democracy and its practical and theoretical limitations.
The rise and fall of Maoism
In what was originally a public presentation at a Socialism conference, Lance Selfa looks at origins of Maoism and its international impact.
