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Austerity Gathers Pace in Volatile South Africa
A wedge is being quickly driven through Pretoria’s political elite, splitting even those who worked closely in the murky 1980s Durban spy scene during the fight against apartheid. Amongst the … Keep reading »
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An Iranian Classic: For the Continuation of the Dictatorship, Long Live Elections!
Iran’s parliamentary elections for the Islamic Consultative Assembly were held in parallel with the elections for the Assembly of Experts on 26 February. Iran is one of the main actors … Keep reading »
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Overthrowing Dilma Rousseff
It’s Class War, and Their Class is Winning Every so often, the bourgeois political system runs into crisis. The machinery of the state jams; the veils of consent are torn asunder … Keep reading »
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The ‘SYRIZA Experience’: Lessons and Adaptations
The impact of the strategic defeat of last year is still very strongly shaping various reactions within the Greek left. Some people seem content with superficial explanations of what happened … Keep reading »
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Podemos and the Crisis of the Spanish State
Early in February, Australian correspondent Dick Nichols, who reports from Catalonia, was interviewed by Tijmen Lucie of the Dutch Socialist Party monthly magazine Spanning. Below is an edited version of … Keep reading »
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Sanders and the Left After Super Tuesday
Why there is still hope and why the Left should rejoice and push forward While some have become skeptical, there are those – from The Nation via Politico and Tom Cahill … Keep reading »
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Age of Austerity: Capital, the Financial Crisis and the State in Canada
Geoffrey McCormack and Thom Workman interviewed by Robin Chang The financial and economic crisis of 2008 has left a continuing legacy on social welfare, showing up in slow economic growth, unemployment … Keep reading »
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Portugal’s Political Impasse
The election of conservative candidate Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa as Portugal’s new president on January 24 (with 51.99 per cent of the vote and a 48.84 per cent voter turnout) … Keep reading »
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Hydro Fairy Tales: Debunking Wynne’s Sale of Hydro One
Up until the late fall of 2014, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and her Ministers vehemently denied, on the record, that they would sell Hydro One. Then on March 10, 2015 … Keep reading »
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The Front National and French Workers
The class-consciousness of workers in France is diminishing. As early as 1978 opinion surveys revealed a strong unease that went with the sense of society falling into crisis. The most … Keep reading »
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Is South America’s ‘Progressive Cycle’ At an End?
In this ambitious and compelling overview of the strategic and programmatic issues at stake in South America today, Argentine political economist Claudio Katz expands on many of the observations he … Keep reading »
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The NPA Seven Years On: Project, Reality and Questions
The following article was written for Kojkkino, the theoretical magazine of the Greek organization DEA. Though quite long, it does not claim to cover all sides of the question. Indeed, … Keep reading »