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50 years of CWI/ISA

April 21, 2024April 25, 2024Arne JohanssonLeave a Comment

Arne Johansson is a member of Socialistiskt Alternativ (ISA in Sweden). When the CWI, the Committee for a Workers International, was formed in the upstairs of the Mother Red Cap pub (an old pub said to have been frequented by Karl Marx, rebuilt in the 1980s and ironically renamed World’s End) in London on 20-21 […]

COP28: Sabotage of Climate Goals

November 29, 2023Arne Johansson

Arne Johansson is a member of Socialistiskt Alternativ (ISA in Sweden). “I cannot emphasise enough that time is running out. Irreversible climate tipping points are alarmingly close. We can either save our world or condemn humanity to a hellish future”, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has summarised the scientific message ahead of the 28th UN Climate […]

Climate Transformation Demands a Revolutionary Struggle for Democratic Socialism

January 10, 2022Arne Johansson

Arne Johansson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). The pitiful outcome of the Glasgow climate summit, COP26, has been greeted with anger and frustration by the world’s climate activists. Completely inadequate and ineffective market solutions mean a continued rapidly shrinking “carbon dioxide budget”. This has led Greta Thunberg to call the summit […]

Marxism and Climate Change

December 28, 2020Arne Johansson

Arne Johansson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Engels’ Struggle for a Dialectical Concept of Nature Seven of the world’s leading climate and so-called Earth System scientists warned last year that the world could be very close to tipping points and even “a cascade of tipping points” that mean that gradual global […]

Trotsky: A Biography by Pierre Broué Reviewed

August 24, 2020Arne Johansson

Arne Johansson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (ISA in Sweden). Pierre Broué takes us on a historic journey that begins with Lev “Lyova” Davidovich Bronstein’s birth on a Ukrainian farm in 1879, the early struggle of his teenage years to understand Marxism and his enthusiastic attempts to organise the Southern Russian Workers’ Union during […]

Cover page of Karl Marx's Ecosocialism by Kohei-Saito

Karl Marx’s ecological socialism is a guide for today’s struggle

August 11, 2019Arne Johansson

Arne Johansson is a member of Rättvisepartiet Socialisterna (CWI in Sweden). Too many socialists, even among those who like to see themselves as revolutionary Marxists, have been sadly late in discovering and understanding the ecological analysis of capitalism’s irreparable metabolic rift with the planet and nature that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels began working on […]