Category: Social Movements
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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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Launching the Socialist Register 2016: The Politics of the Right
It is becoming increasingly clear that we are at one of those historical moments that compel socialists to undertake a serious calibration of the political forces amassing on the right. … Watch video »
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Palestinian Popular Resistance: Building (BDS)/ Student Movement
Toronto — 12 January 2016. A new generation of Palestinians is marching on the footsteps of previous generations, rising up against Israel’s brutal, decades-old system of occupation, settler colonialism and … Watch video »
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The “New Turkey’s” Test With Freedom of Thought and Expression: Resurgent Fascism?
The petition by the “Academicians for Peace” in Turkey has resulted in an assault against the academic community of the country, which resembles the practices of the military junta of … Keep reading »
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A New Political Situation in Latin America: What Lies Ahead?
Two recent events – the second-round victory on November 22 of right-wing candidate Mauricio Macri in Argentina’s presidential election, and the December 6 victory of the right-wing Democratic Unity Roundtable, … Keep reading »
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After Paris: Unify Fights Against Austerity and Climate Change
The Climate Summit in Paris has once again reminded us of how vulnerable we are on planet earth. However, humanity is faced with a number of deep and challenging crises: … Keep reading »
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“What We’ve Achieved So Far”
An interview with Jeremy Corbyn Hilary Wainwright and Leo Panitch in conversation with Jeremy Corbyn, the new leader of the UK Labour Party. They talk about the meaning of ‘new politics’, … Keep reading »
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From Greece to Portugal to Corbyn’s Labour Party
Openings and Closures on the European Left Toronto — 1 November 2015. After decades of uninterrupted neoliberal austerity across Europe, in recent years a new left alternative has begun to take … Watch video »
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South African Student Protesters Win First Big Victory
Decolonization, Race and Class Politics Fused in Epic Battle The university students have been furious, as their cry “Fees must fall!” rang out on campuses and sites of political power across … Keep reading »
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Corbyn’s Labour
“Leaps! Breaks in Gradualness. Leaps! Leaps!” — V.I. Lenin, “Conspectus of Hegel’s Science of Logic,” Collected Works, volume 38 p.123. Lenin’s excitement at his rediscovery of Hegel as he grappled … Keep reading »
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Beyond Parliamentarism: Historical Bases and Prospects for Corbynism
Who would have thought? Britain, of all places – that island so often lamented to be devoid of revolutionary history and thought, the land of Fabianism without Marxism, the home … Keep reading »
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Fighting Class War While ‘Walking on Two Legs’
There’s an apartment building in Dorchester that used to be a safe and affordable place to live for working-class families in Boston. But after a corporate landlord bought it in … Keep reading »