Capitalism’s COVID Disaster Women Organize Against Oppression Indigenous Struggles Continue The Struggle for Jobs and Climate US – China Cold War Will Continue Latin America: Struggle Returns Unite Here: A Fighting Local in BC Housing Crisis Ahead If you’d like to order paper copies, email us [email protected] Please make a donation towards our costs and […]
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Massimo Amadori is a member of Resistenze Internazionali (ISA in Italy). Antonio Gramsci is certainly one of the most popular Marxist thinkers, and is considered one of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century. In recent years, his ideas have been particularly studied and appreciated by the Latin American left, as they look to the […]
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Michael Munanga is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). Patrice Lumumba occupies a very important place in popular consciousness in Congo. Even Mobutu, who took part in his assassination, was forced to make him a “national hero” in 1966. His legacy still resounds throughout the country, Africa […]
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A towering figure of music, Beethoven was born on December 16, 1770. He grew to be a genius of the European tradition of classical music. His life was a time of turmoil and revolution and at a crossroads of an artist’s relation with society. Beethoven’s musical beauty and genius is best understood in the context […]
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Mauro Espinola is a member of Alternativa Socialista (ISA in Mexico). The first of a series of articles that seeks to clarify and outline the nature of the Mexican Revolution from a class point of view. November 20 marked the 110th anniversary of the beginning of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, in which thousands of […]
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Albert Kropf is a member of Sozialistische LinksPartei (ISA in Austria). Many want to drive a wedge between Marx and Engels for their own interpretations of Marxism and socialism. There is no either or, but only both together. Let us take a look at this in a brief foray into the wild life of Friedrich […]
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Mike Forster is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). On November 28, 1990, 30 years ago, Margaret Thatcher tearfully tended her resignation as Tory Party leader and therefore by default, as prime minister of the UK, after 11 years in power. She was forced out by a Cabinet coup against her and […]
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Andy Ford is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). 2020 marks 70 years since the untimely death of George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) from tuberculosis in University College Hospital, London. His political and literary legacy has been fought over ever since. Early years Orwell was born in 1903 in Motihari, India, as […]
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There was that old Victorian, moralistic saying of drink being the curse of the working classes. Oscar Wilde wittily turned it around to read that work is the curse of the drinking classes. Can we consider work as a curse? A recent US survey found that 36 percent loved their job and was meaningful, nearly […]
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Manus Lenihan is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). The Jarkarta Method presents a bold counter-history of the Cold War, showing how this colossal violence played an essential role in shaping the world we live in today. The beautiful Indonesian island of Bali attracts visitors from all over the world. But most […]
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