Nigerian Youth Fight Back Against Police Terror
Despite intense repression, the protests in Nigeria continue to escalate.
Walter Rodney: Marxist, Pan-African, Organic Intellectual
On the socialist revolutionary Walter Rodney’s many accomplishments and intellectual prowess.
No Excuses: Historic New Zealand Election Challenges Labor Movement
With the Labor Party’s landslide victory in the national election on October 17, the opportunity presents itself for the working class to push the government to implement progressive policies.
From Golden Dawn to the AfD, the Far Right Is Being Beaten Back by a Fighting Left
Greece reveals the reality. The far right can be stopped. In so doing, it is not a matter of rallying to the centre. In knocking out the fascist right through mass methods, the radical left can reopen the path to the growth of working class struggle and of socialism.
Kill the Bill, or It Will Kill Us All
Because of the threat that the Omnibus Bill poses to Indonesian society, workers, students, peasants, and all elements of social movements have boldly opposed it.
Historic General Strike in South Africa Sees Workers Raise Issues of Corruption, Job Loss
The strike was called by the Congress of South African Trade Unions and was joined by the South African Federation of Trade Unions and other organizations. It may set the stage for a new phase of working class unity.
Charlie Chaplin and Karl Marx in Conversation
Marx called his version of human nature species being. Modern Times is really about species being—our fundamental needs, our drive not to be dehumanized, the survival of our spirits as well as our bodies, the full expression of this limited creature.
Thirty Years of Unified Germany
On October 3, many Germans will celebrate the re-unification of Germany. But few can ignore the facts: neither Germany nor the world have lived up to all past expectations, while many worry about what lies ahead.
Hong Kong in Revolt
Hong Kong leftist intellectual Au Loong-Yu retraces the development of the protest movement in his place of birth over the past two decades, setting them within the context of broader political trends in mainland China and beyond.
The Revolutionary Answers of C.L.R. James
Drawing lessons from the works of Trinidadian socialist and revolutionary C.L.R. James, the author argues that anti-racist organising needs to be at the centre of the struggle against capitalism.