Vilgot Karlsson The state of emergency and the coup attempt were a desperate attempt by an unpopular president. President Yoon Suk Yeol of the People Power Party (PPP) sought to attack his opponents in an ongoing and bitter capitalist power struggle and to disarm a labor movement that was preparing for battle. The state of […]
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UN climate summit an expected failure The main purpose of COP29, the twenty-ninth UN climate summit — this time held in the oil dictatorship of Azerbaijan — is said to have been to devise a plan for how rich countries can support poor countries’ financing of climate adaptation and transition. COP29 was instead a manifestation […]
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Update, October 31: The Canadian government has evidence that the intimidation and assassination plots in the US and Canada were coordinated from the office of India’s Home Affairs run by Amit Shah, India’s “second most powerful man” and Modi’s enforcer. Bilaterial relations between India and Canada have completely broken down. The murder of Hardeep Singh […]
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“Interim” capitalist government prepares clamp down The mass struggle in Bangladesh is at a decisive point. A month after the mass movement forced Prime Minister Hasina to resign and go into exile, a confrontation is building up between a rising wave of workers’ strikes and the new government, representing the capitalist owners of multinational businesses. […]
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In less than two months, the Bangladeshi masses have thrown off the yoke of two decades of dictatorial rule. Millions of students and working people overthrew the autocratic Sheikh Hasina regime in a political revolution, proving that mass struggle can win. Now, the question is: what will follow next? The student-led movement that toppled the […]
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But His Persecution Proves That No One Is Truly Free Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been released from prison and allowed to go home to his wife and children in Australia after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage. His sudden release ends a legal nightmare for Assange during which he was involuntarily confined for […]
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India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, is taking every possible step to ensure he wins a third term in the general election, which runs from April 19 until June 1. Modi’s party, the BJP, is based on far-right Hindu chauvinism, Hindutva. Modi himself rose to prominence through the fascist inspired Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which is […]
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Capitalist East and West are both in decline Socialist magazine (ISA in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan) and our international organisation, ISA, differ with the analysis of most other left organizations who see world imperialist rivalries as largely “multipolar,” with the US in decline (yes, it is) and China rising (no, that is no longer […]
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Hong Liuxing and Adam N. Lee are contributors to chinaworker.info. Recent months have seen a sharp escalation of the dispute between the Philippines and China for sovereignty over islands and ‘features’ — often no more than rocks — in the South China Sea, which is called the West Philippines Sea by the Manila government. Coast […]
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