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What role for elected officials in the class struggle?
Every socialist interprets the past considering arguments they want to make in the present. But it’s also true that one can’t just “cut history to fit a model,” especially if that history doesn’t even explain the past.
Australia: Good riddance to Morrison, time to fight Labor!
The union leaders have stood by for years while the bosses and governments have got away with whittling away jobs and workplace rights. That has to end.
Revisiting U.S. war crimes IV: Vietnam (Part III)
This is the final installment of a three-part series by Joe Allen, “Vietnam: The war that the U.S. lost,” which first appeared as “From quagmire to defeat” in the International Socialist Review.
Revisiting U.S. war crimes IV: Vietnam (Part II)
Here, we feature the second of a three-part series by Joe Allen, “Vietnam: The war that the U.S. lost,” which first appeared as “From the overthrow of Diem to the Tet Offensive” in the International Socialist Review. The final installment will follow.
Revisiting U.S. war crimes IV: Vietnam (Part I)
Here, we feature the first of a three-part series by Joe Allen, “Vietnam: The war that the U.S. lost,” which first appeared in the International Socialist Review. The other installments will follow.
Israel promises more ethnic cleansing of Palestinians
Despite Israel’s ongoing repression, Palestinians inside the Zionist state and in the occupied Palestinian territories have continued to resist Zionist settler-colonialism, occupation and oppression.
War in Ukraine has brought Poland’s inhumane abortion laws to light
War has returned to Europe, which means that rape as a weapon of war has also returned to Europe. Unwanted pregnancies from these rapes are happening today, right here in Europe.
Al Jazeera condemns Israeli attack on Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral
The news network said that attack on mourners participating in the funeral ‘violates all norms and international laws’.
US groups demand full probe after Israeli forces kill journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
Shireen Abu Akleh, a well-known 51-year-old Palestinian-American correspondent, was wearing a helmet and press jacket that clearly identified her as a journalist when Israeli forces shot her in the face as she covered an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) raid on the Jenin refugee camp in the illegally occupied West Bank of Palestine.
The movement that won legal abortion in Colombia
This interview with Ana Cristina González Vélez, one of Colombia’s leading campaigners for abortion rights, describes how the movement in Colombia advanced the struggle to win decriminalization of abortion in February.
Faced with popular hostility Macron imposed his re-election
Not only was Macron badly elected, but half of his votes in the second round were in no way in support of record or his programme. They come from a vote of refusal, to prevent the election of Marine Le Pen, which the polls on the evening of the first round had presented as a serious possibility.
Abortion rights on the chopping block in the U.S.
The consequences, as always, will be most brutal for those who are young and poor or working class—which includes a disproportionate number of Black and Brown women—who do not have the financial means or the ability to take the time off work to travel far away to a state that still allows abortions.
The Imran Khan’s ouster: From ‘New Pakistan’ to the old one!
It is no exaggeration to say that the almost four years of PTI’s stint in power was one of the darkest periods of this country, which only drove society backwards—and in the absence of a mass revolutionary upsurge, its reactionary political, social, and cultural ramifications will continue to haunt Pakistan.
Who Is working-class, and why it matters
We are not living through a Second Gilded Age, but a Second Redemption—what white supremacists proudly called their crushing of Reconstruction.
