Redefining the political in colonial Puerto Rico
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Redefining the political in colonial Puerto Rico
The struggle for life is taking new and interesting twists in Puerto Rico.
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The Left and Ukraine: Anti-Imperialism or Alter-Imperialism?
How should the left respond to NATO expansionism and Western imperialist policy? As anti-imperialists we reject both NATO imperialism and Putin’s imperialist reaction to it.
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Dominican Republic: US government endorses President Abinader’s racist violence
US Subsecretary of State Wendy Sherman’s April visit to Santo Domingo served to ratify the strategic character of the Dominican regime’s subordination to the US and to iron out the differences that arose during the year
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The Many Faces of the Left in Ecuador
The elections in Ecuador earlier this year continue to inspire international debate among competing left currents over lessons to be learned.
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Rosa Luxemburg and the ‘Young Socialist’ of Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Any renewal of the socialist project in the 21st century must assimilate Rosa Luxemburg’s insights on democracy and freedom as both means and end.
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After 2019 uprising, a new socialist formation and new political party, change the electoral game
Any attempt to address the electoral issue in Puerto Rico from a socialist perspective must begin by pointing out the limits of the electoral process in the island.
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Irish Anti-Colonial Solidarity with Indigenous People
#NoDAPL In 1847 as a famine created by both climate and man was unleashing death and destruction across Ireland, a group of charitable people across the Atlantic ocean raised money for those affected. They raised 170dollars and these people who managed to raise such a considerable amount of money were themselves without any prosperity but…
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International Call to Support the People of Puerto Rico
International Call to Struggle and for Solidarity against the Imposition of the Oversight Board (Junta) in Puerto Rico We invite the international community and the Puerto Rican diaspora to join us in struggle and solidarity with Puerto Rico’s present situation.
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Impeachment and Rural Violence: Two Faces of the Same Class Struggle
The vote on impeachment, which is in a decisive week, makes clear the interests of the ruling classes and their inclination to reverse the losses from the global economic crisis. It is the class struggle carried out in government offices.
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Ending Anti-Black State Violence
In 1992, the world witnessed African American Rodney King being brutally beaten by Los Angeles policemen. In 1999, Amadou Diallo, an unarmed Black immigrant from Guinea, was shot 19 times by five New York City policemen outside his apartment. Sean Bell was shot to death by NYPD in 2006 on the morning of his wedding.…
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Podemos, the 15M Indignados Movement and the Radical Left in Spain
In this article I will analyze the current situation of the Left in Spain, ahead of the forthcoming December 20, 2015 General Elections, by considering how four of its political actors (United Left, Podemos, The Municipalist Platforms and Anti-capitalist Left) have shaped their strategies and agendas in response to the political changes that the 15M…
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Black Lives Matter is Not a Civil Rights Movement
Black Lives Matter is often called a “civil rights” movement. But to think that our fight is solely about civil rights is to misunderstand the fundamental aspirations of this movement. Today, on International Human Rights Day, we recognize the current struggle is not merely for reforms of policing, anymore than the Montgomery Bus Boycott was…
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An Exchange of Views on the Situation in Portugal
The following discussion was originally published in Internatonal Viewpoint What will happen now in Portugal? Here we publish an exchange of views between Stathis Kouvelakis, leading member of the Left Platform in Syriza and now of Popular Unity in Greece, and Catherine Samary leading member of the Fourth International, from France. Thoughts on Stathis Kouvelakis’s…
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South African Students Win Reforms, Build a Movement
In South Africa students have been protesting for the past couple of weeks. Their immediate concerns are the intended hike of tuition fees, on average about 10%. Starting from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) in Johannesburg, they have demonstrated against the planned hikes. Students have occupied buildings on their campuses, held mass meetings,…
