Swaraj – Unto the Last
Why Unto the last? Because: No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
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On Earth Day: A Spiritual Message; and Two Poems
Earth Day Message from Evo Morales; Poems – Earth Day 2021; Poem to the Earth
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China and Cuba’s Vaccine Internationalism – Two Articles
As rich nations stockpile COVID-19 vaccines, China is providing a lifeline to Global South nations spurned by Western pharmaceuticals and excluded by the West’s neocolonial vaccine nationalism. The vaccines being developed by Cuba will also soon be available to the poor countries.
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Bay of Pigs: First Defeat of Imperialism in Latin America
Since the invasion, when the Cuban people defeated US troops attempting to overthrow the revolutionary Cuban government, 60 years have passed. Cuba continues its socialist path despite the increased sanctions imposed by the USA to strangulate the Cuban people by hunger and disease.
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MLK Was a Radical Who Hated Not Only Racial Subordination but Class Exploitation
Throughout his adult life, Martin Luther King Jr believed in striking down not only racial apartheid but class exploitation. That twin commitment was embodied in his final effort: the often-forgotten Poor People’s Campaign.
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Online Blog | Socialism | USA
Paul Robeson, the Great Forerunner
Time Magazine in 1943 called him, “probably the most famous living Negro”; but progressives remember him for refusing to back down from the campaign against fascism and racism and standing up for international socialism even during the McCarthy era.
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Why Bhagat Singh’s Writings Remain Strikingly Relevant Today
‘The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting-stone of ideas,’ Bhagat Singh once said. And he proved that with the few masterpieces his brief but legendary life allowed him to pen.
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Celebrating the Paris Commune of 1871
Socialist historian Sandra Bloodworth commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Commune, retelling the breathtaking events as well as providing an assessment of their political significance.
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Marxism on Oppression
Capitalism breeds oppression. Capitalism atomises workers generally. Workplaces can make workers compete according to skills and results, but also by pitching workplace against workplace. This is one of the secrets allowing capitalists to undermine united working class resistance.
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The Paris Communards: They Showed the Way to Labour Emancipation
Brief story of those workers in Paris who in 1871, to use Marx’s phrase, stormed the heavens. They gave to the world, for the first time, the “political form, at last, discovered under which to work out the economic emancipation of labour.”
