Ukraine: Voices of Resistance and Solidarity is a highly commendable work that gives a needed platform to Ukrainian socialists and trade unionists.
Author: Phil Gasper
The Nord Stream Pipeline Explosions: Challenging False Narratives
The claim that the Nord Stream gas pipeline was blown up by U.S. special forces, made by Seymour Hersh, is being used to reinforce false narratives about Russia’s culpability for the war in Ukraine.
Solidarity Statement with Protests in China
More than just the lockdown, what motivates these protests is people’s sense of not being heard in a political system that so arrogantly disregards popular opinions.
Two Sixties’ Radicals Recall Fighting Times in U.S. Labor
A review of Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War (PM Press, 2022) by Jon Melrod and Troublemaker: Saying No to Power by Frank Emspak (available at Amazon books).
The United States in Crisis
Colin Wilson, website editor for rs21 (revolutionary socialism in the 21st century), interviewed Natalia Tylim and Phil Gasper in July about the upheavals, dangers and opportunities facing socialists in the US today.
Vladimir Putin
Can the God of global fascists and Nazis “de-Nazify” a country?
Virtually the entirety of fascist, Nazi, white-supremacist and ultra-rightist forces everywhere in the world have been strongly aligned to the Putin regime.
Brazil’s Wounded Reactionary
Bolsonaro’s failure to deliver on the economy and his atrocious response to the COVID-19 pandemic may be the main reasons why his approval rating, as of November, sits at 19%.
Political Change and Continuity in the Dominican Republic
As the Dominican elite consolidates its power under President Abinader and continues its relentless attacks on the working class, the revolutionary left must unite to organize workers regardless of national origin.
Was there a Revolutionary Social Democracy?
Samuel Farber reviews Eric Blanc’s Revolutionary Social Democracy. Working Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882-1917), a book that is likely to become the focus of important debate on the left.
Tenure is the Easy Target but the Wrong One
The attacks on tenure are really just part of an orchestrated attempt to lower labor standards by decreasing job security for workers across the board while weakening higher education.
The Suicidal Democracy
House of Cards Being Blown Apart
The Freedom in the World 2021 report has unveiled 2020 to be the 15th consecutive year of decline in democracy across the world.
U.S. Imperialism in Afghanistan and Beyond
For the family members of the victims, the 9/11 attacks were a tragedy, but for the Bush administration and the U.S. ruling class, they were a golden opportunity.
Settler Colonialism, Not a Nation of Immigrants
Review of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Not “A Nation of Immigrants”: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion.
Understanding Antisemitism Is About More Than Israel and Palestine
Antisemitism informs government policy in Poland and Hungary; it shapes the new right and its fixation on George Soros. Any usable definition of antisemitism needs to see that wider context.
One Hundred Years Ago A Very Different Chinese Communist Party Was Born
The Chinese Communist Party, founded in 1921 by revolutionary socialists inspired by democratic Marxism and the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, was essentially destroyed by Chiang Kai-shek in 1927-28.
British Politics: Racism and the Tories
Culture wars are central to the Tory government’s current political strategy, not least because they cannot deliver material benefits to their voting base. Charlie Hore reports from Britain.
Iran: A New Wave of Mass Protests and Strikes
Iran is experiencing another wave of mass protests and strikes as economic, social, political, environmental and health problems make it impossible for the large majority of the population to have the bare minimums needed to live.
How Contingent Faculty Organizing Can Succeed in Higher Education
Power Despite Precarity is not just a solid guide to best practices in day-to-day trade union work within higher education. It’s also a rousing call for the contingent faculty movement to embrace grassroots, rather than top-down, organizing.
Call for the Release of Detainees in Cuba
The Comunistas blog calls for the release of Frank García Hernández and other leftists detained in Cuba for protesting against the government.
Lies and Professional Politicians
Professional politicians are a relatively recent historical phenomenon and their lies are to a great extent a response to social structural imperatives that did not exist in precapitalist societies.
Beyond Atlanta: Contextualizing Anti-Asian Hate and Violence
We must broaden the contours of what is anti-Asian violence to also include Asian workers being exploited, or Asian women being sexually attacked, a pattern of misogyny and oppression linked to colonialism and white supremacy.
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