The tsunami of demonstrations following the murder of George Floyd has awakened an interest in revolutionary ideas and strategy. Militants are confronting sharply posed issues such as what type of society could actually “defund the police” and can the Democratic Party take us even one inch of the way towards […]
“Can you hear us now?” Those were the words spray painted on the boarded-up windows of Minneapolis’ East Lake Clinic—near the 3rd Precinct police station that protesters burned down on the night of May 28th. The whole world has now watched four Minneapolis cops murder George Floyd. Yet it took […]
The uprising that spread across the United States in the wake of the Minneapolis police murder of George Floyd on Memorial Day was a powerful reminder of the central role that racism has always played in U.S. history. But was also a reminder of another key point that the Trinidadian-born […]
Latin America is becoming the new epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic. The arrival of the coronavirus in the region’s slums threatens to exacerbate pre-existing political, economic and social problems. With nuances specific to each country, the health crisis could soon create a reality as unstable as it is explosive, Buenos […]
This article first appeared in the Asian Marxist Review. On Friday, May 1, Arif Wazir, a leader of Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), was shot three times by unknown assailants near his home in Wanna, Waziristan. He was critically injured and rushed to a local hospital. He was then shifted to […]
This article was first published in New Politics . For the second time since the turn of the century, governments in North America and Europe are intervening massively with public funds and in conjunction with central banks to bail out entire sectors of the economy and prevent a general economic […]
Earlier this week, we received the terrible news that Pete Gillard, a long-standing comrade, passed away on April 21. It appears that Covid-19 ultimately cost him his life—after he fought and survived cancer surgery, sepsis, other health problems after weeks in intensive care. Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century (rs21), […]
In what was likely the most predictable event in the Democratic Party primary season, Sen. Bernie Sanders on April 13 endorsed former Vice President Joe Biden as the Democratic nominee to go up against President Trump in November. No one should have been surprised that the Sanders campaign ended this […]
Buenos Aires-based Claudio Katz, author of many books and articles on political economy, gave this interview on March 30 to El Círculo Rojo, the radio program affiliated with the online socialist news site La Izquierda Diario. Lance Selfa translated the interview with permission from the author. How would you characterize […]
A pandemic is an epidemic stretching across multiple continents. It is therefore a worldwide public health crisis. For this reason, the only effective way to combat the Covid-19 pandemic is through global coordination aimed at advancing a collective international strategy. Yet, the capitalist world order has done precisely the opposite, […]
Many excellent articles have appeared analyzing the COVID 19 pandemic from a socialist and Marxist perspective. In this piece, we will look at just one question: what should socialists do during the pandemic? The main components of the answer are supporting essential workers fighting for safety protections, defending workers demanding […]
The global economic crisis is deteriorating at a rate as dizzying as the pandemic is. The reduction in economic growth and the sudden halt in China’s production system are now behind us. Now the price of oil has collapsed, stock markets have plummeted and panic in the financial world has […]
The COVID19 pandemic and resulting shelter in place orders have obviously led to a tidal wave of suffering and hardship throughout the working class. However, in a number of cases, workers have used traditional labor forms of struggle to push back against this situation. These activities have tended to fall […]
In light of the trajectory of Sen. Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic Party primaries, the socialist left will have to come to terms with what it ventured and what it gained in the last two years. As they assess the Sanders campaign, socialists will disagree with one another. Hopefully […]
A large mass of western imperialist states’ air and naval forces is gathered in Eastern Mediterranean. This “competitive co-existence” of large war ships with huge firepower that sail permanently in the area can be seen in map 1. The main factor is the presence of the American Navy, operating from […]
