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The Myanmarese people are on a general strike. It has paralysed large parts of the economy, including banks, shipyards, transport, railways, major factories, large-scale farms, oil refineries, mines, hospitals, schools, marketplaces, and importantly, all spheres of energy extraction.
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.
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.
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.”
On this day in 1871, the working class of Paris seized control of the capital and established the Commune. Though it ruled for just two months, it still stands as a vivid example of the kind of society workers themselves can create, according to their own vision of freedom and equality.
The resignation of top academics from Ashoka University is reflective of the current atmosphere where centres of education that encourage us to question beliefs and prejudices pose a direct threat to the Hindutva state.
From the beginning, International Women’s Day has been an occasion to celebrate working women and fight capitalism; also an article by Kollantai on IWD written in 1920.
In a major victory for the left and progressive forces, all of the criminal convictions against Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva have been struck down by the Supreme Federal Tribunal, Brazil’s highest court.
Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah has inspired fear within the Empire through both its struggle on the ground and its success in electoral politics as well as in providing welfare services to the people.
A powerful Chavista organization struggles for a new city centered on people and not capital.
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