A belated tribute to Ernesto Herrera, who died on 10 January 2024. The shock had to be absorbed. A comrade-friend, with a hyphen of fraternity and not of union, in order to respect his personal trajectory.
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Ernesto Herrera. “Always on the right side of the trenches.”
It is with deep sadness that we must report the passing on January 10th of our dear comrade Ernesto Herrera, a lifelong revolutionary socialist from Uruguay.
A snapshot of a new movement: Report on Chicago Palestine demonstration
The organizers of the current wave of Palestine demonstrations have put together a movement that is drawing in thousands of new young people; a movement that is effectively organized; a movement that is clearly focused on solidarity with Palestine; a movement that uses tactics and slogans that reach outward to new layers of potential support; and a movement that totally rejects antisemitism.
Hasta luego, tayta Hugucha
The Peruvian revolutionary peasant and indigenous rights leader Hugo Blanco, a long-time member of the Fourth International, died late last month. We translate and reprint a reflection on Blanco’s life from Pepe Mejía, a member of the editorial board of Lucha Indígena, a newspaper that Blanco founded.
Greek authorities arrested Kashmir origin immigrants rights activist Akif Khan
According to reports, he was also harassed by the Pakistani Foreign Office during his stay in Greece, and his phone was confiscated last spring.
Glacier Northwest Supreme Court ruling: An update
On June 1, the Supreme Court ruled that Glacier’s case could proceed in the Washington State Court System. This was a rejection of the union’s claim that its actions were protected by current labor laws.
‘Speechless’: US, Canada agree on plan to turn away asylum-seekers
Many Latin American and Caribbean migrants are fleeing poverty and political or criminal violence and repression in their home countries, some of it caused by decades of U.S. imperial policies and actions in the region.
Farewell to Ahmed Shawki
Ahmed was a sensational political orator, a great propagandist of revolutionary Marxist ideas. As an editor of his organization’s journal, he made International Socialist Review a “center” for Marxist debates with and international reach.
Split in the NPA: “A change of epoch for the revolutionary left”
While the future of the tendency animated by former militants of the Revolutionary Communist League (LCR), of which Olivier Besancenot is a member, is uncertain, François Sabado, historical leader of the LCR, who had seen the NPA as a broader formation that could envelope the LCR (he was a member of its leadership until 2015), looks back on this crisis.
Mike Davis: ¡Presente!
We, like so many others, mourn Mike Davis’ death and celebrate his enormous political contributions over many decades.
The Fed attacks the working class: Interview with Robert Pollin
The Federal Reserve is trying to increase unemployment and strip U.S. workers of the small gains in bargaining power they have achieved in the aftermath of the COVID economic lockdown. Robert Pollin joins Paul Jay on theAnalysis.news.
Pakistan: Interview with Awais Qarni, organizer of the ‘Revolutionary Flood Relief and Protest Campaign’
The revolutionary organization The Struggle is carrying out a bold campaign of material aid and popular self-organization throughout Pakistan. Here, we are publishing the interview of the campaign’s organizer and editor of Asian Marxist Review, Awais Qarni.
Philippines: Activist, former VP bet Walden Bello arrested for cyberlibel
On Monday, Bello was taken to the Quezon City Police Station 8 but was transferred to Camp Karingal on the instructions of Police Brig. Gen. Remus Medina, district director.
Inside the Russian resistance against Putin’s war
Spectre’s Ashley Smith interviews Sasha, an activist in Feminist Anti-War Resistance about the war, its impact on Russian society in general and women in particular, and the debates among feminists about how to oppose imperialism.
Labor Notes conference: A force to be reckoned with
Four thousand trade unionists gathered in Rosemont, Illinois, this past weekend. The occasion was the conference of Labor Notes, a left labor magazine and current. The purpose of this article is to explain why this conference was such an important event.
