The Lebanon Disaster: A Metaphor for Modern Capitalism
There is now “a state of emergency” in Beirut. No, not to deal with the devastating explosion in its port which left 200 people dead or missing, over 6,000 injured and 300,000 homeless. The “state of emergency” is to protect the political and economic elite from the anger of the Lebanese population who were already on their knees before the explosion on 4 August.
An Open Letter of a Part-Time Instructor from PUP
Workers' Strikes in Iran: A New Wave of Struggle
In December 2018 we wrote an an article entitled Workers' Strikes in Iran: This Time it is Different about the end of the magnificent strikes and demonstrations of the Haft Tapeh sugarcane factory workers. The promises which were made to the workers then were once again broken, and when they had not been paid since March 2020 they resumed their strike on 15 June. As we write they have now been on strike for over 2 months.
Strikes in Belarus Escalate as Lukashenko's Power Wavers
Recently we have written about the background and escalation of the current opposition movement in Belarus, but in the days that followed the situation has already changed by quite a bit – with various developments in the struggle against Lukashenko’s regime. Particularly interesting are the news on the industrial action front.
Hands off the US! Stand with the American people and their democratically elected leader against the regime change plot!
Covid Crisis or Capitalist Crisis
Revolutionary Perspectives 16 Editorial
Some Clarifications on Roberts' Idea of the Falling Rate of Profit
Roberts (in tandem with the likes of Carchedi and Maito) frequently makes decent critiques of the existing trends in the capitalist crisis. However, despite criticising others on the capitalist left for their neo-Keynesianism, he offers little more than the suggestion that nationalisation would solve capital’s problems. The brief article here reveals a fairly fundamental error. (CWO)
"Class Power on Zero-Hours": Learning the Hard Way?
Winds of Change in Belarus: Neither Dictatorship Nor Democracy Offer Anything for the Working Class
The Murder of George Floyd: The End of Racism Starts with the Death of Capitalism
Why the Working Class is Key
Mike Lee, RIP
Unrest in the USA: A Perfect Storm
The spread of COVID-19 to the United States earlier this year both triggered and exacerbated the economic crisis which has been building up for decades. Around 50 million workers in America have been thrown out of work since the start of the lockdown, the great majority of whom have no alternative source of income for the necessities of life.
Pandemic Politics in the UK
In the UK, the coronavirus crisis has brutally exposed the significance of the endless cuts to the NHS as well as the incompetence of the Johnson government. From failure to organise protective equipment for medical staff to the catastrophic decision to return elderly COVID-19 patients to care-homes, the shambles of the bespoke track-and-trace scheme and shipwreck of the scheme to re-open schools in England, the government has lurched from fiasco to debacle.
Supak sa Anti-Terror Bill
Usa ka analisa nga anarchist sa Anti-Terror Act nga gihisgutan sa kongreso sa Pilipinas. Translation of “Against the Terror of Anti-Terror”
A Crisis of Capitalist "Civilisation"
The New Imperialist Alignments in Libya
Today the sea which the caesars of ancient Rome called Mare Nostrum has again become the focal point of the clash between the imperialist powers who overlook the Mediterranean as well as those who cannot see it from their windows. They all ply it in search of military ports, control of shipping routes and maritime trade, as well as to give them a military presence between three continents (Europe, Africa and Asia). Last but not least, they seek to exploit Libyan oil resources as well as those off Cyprus.
The Murders of Fausto Atti and Mario Acquaviva
Under this cross fire of the Stalinists and the Blackshirts the red flag of revolution carried on flying, thanks to the extreme sacrifice of the internationalists of whom we remember first those who died at the hands of the Axis. But the two most significant deaths were not at the hands of the Nazis but the “centrists”, the new social democrats, as the Stalinists were labelled in those days.