News from a World in Turmoil: Chinese Imperialism in Africa and the Mediterranean

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(When capitalism is in crisis, when profit rates are falling, when the GDP growth of the most advanced countries is at minimal or zero levels, when states can barely survive under the weight of increasingly unsustainable national debt, when capital flies from the real economy to chase the chimera of easy profits leading to a vicious cycle of speculation that generates financial bubbles and...

Zionism: A Prime Example of National Liberation as a Dead End

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More than 40,000 dead and counting, many among them children, whole districts razed, millions displaced, and the conflict spiralling into a wider war engulfing the Middle East – this is what Israel's "right to self-defence", invoked since Hamas' dramatic incursion of 7 October, has meant in practical terms.

Capitalism's Economic Foundations (Part V)

(Part I ( – Part II ( – Part III ( – Part IV ( – Part V) · Globalisation and its Discontents · Before continuing with this section which brings us closer to our contemporary world, it is worth summarising the key elements in this necessarily truncated analysis of almost fifty years of capitalism’s profitability crisis.

Revolution or Reconciliation?

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Truth and Reconciliation Day is presented to the workers of Canada, indigenous and otherwise, as a step on the path towards making amends for the historic injustices of the colonial period. It is no secret that while some greet this occasion earnestly in the intended spirit, reason for skepticism persists, and rightly so.

Don’t Wait on Aramark, Strike While the Iron is Hot!

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As the Philly government bulldozes through a plan to build a new arena in center city, the workers at the three stadiums in existence can’t afford to feed their families. The demands that striking Aramark workers are fighting for, namely higher wages and classification as full-time workers to receive full benefits, reflect problems that are common to the entirety of the working class in the US...

The Success of the AfD in East Germany: An Expression and Springboard for an Authoritarian Formation

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“It is a historic victory,” scribbled Björn Höcke immediately after the announcement of the first election results in Saxony and Thuringia. And he wasn’t far off. In Thuringia, the Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) made gains of 9.4% to become the strongest force there, with 32.8%.

Anton Pannekoek as a Revolutionary Marxist: A Review Article

(Anton Pannekoek, The Workers’ Way to Freedom & Other Council Communist Writings (1935-1954), edited and introduced by Robyn K. Winters (PM Press/Working Class History), 2024 (303 pp. $24.95)) · "The future belongs to the workers, but most of them still do not know it." (Anton Pannekoek, 1907) · We concluded our book on the Russian Revolution(1) by contrasting two erroneous, but opposing views,...

Decant the Strike from Union Control!

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It has been four months since the two day walk out of the SAQ workers at the end of April of 2024. Since then the strike has been effectively stalled as the union indefinitely ‘negotiates’. Despite a fifteen day strike mandate overwhelmingly approved by the workers, the union seems entirely disinterested in pursuing any real militant action, leaving the workers themselves in a state of limbo.

Two Parties, One Rotten System

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Another election season has arrived in the US’ sick and crisis-ridden political system. With the exit of Biden and the ascension of Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party has gotten a break in what was shaping up to be a defeat. Nevertheless, both ruling parties represent nothing less than full on political reaction.

The Working Class Needs A Militant Labor Day

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September 2nd 2024 marks the 130th anniversary of the first official Labor Day in the US and Canada. Labor Day has a long and complex history for the North American working class. Today, Labor Day appears to most workers as little more than an extra day off, if that. At most, it is a moment for the unions to organize BBQs and parades to cover for their management of worsening conditions for the...

Bolivarian 'Socialism’s' Bluff

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(Italian ( Spanish ( · In Venezuela, the proletarian masses (especially) have already been taking to the streets for weeks. · On the bright side, they are fed up, albeit with democratic slogans, with being taken for a ride by those who - from the time of Chavez to Maduro - use the name of socialism to disguise that Bolivarism was nothing more than, under the make-up of a democratic institutional...

The Murder of Giacomo Matteotti: 100 Years On

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History has a way of coming back to haunt the present. For Giorgia Meloni and her neo-fascist Brothers of Italy party whose logo contains a flame symbolising “the spirit of Mussolini”, the centenary of the murder of socialist parliamentary deputy, Giacomo Matteotti, by fascist thugs has brought some particularly uncomfortable moments.

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