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  • The Politics and Geopolitics of the Coup in Myanmar Vijay Prashad | February 14, 2021

    On February 1, 2021, Myanmar’s military – known as the Tatmadaw – invoked Article 417 of the 2008 constitution, dismissed State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, and arrested her and … Keep reading »

  • Community Helps to Sustain Portland’s Ongoing BLM Protests April M. Short | February 13, 2021

    Portlanders have been protesting everyday since May. Community mutual aid ‘blocs’ support BIPOC activists with everything from groceries to haircuts to tattoos. Keep reading »

  • In Memory of Ernie Tate (1934-2021): A Life of Revolutionary Activism John Riddell | February 12, 2021

    The socialist movement lost an outstanding educator and organizer with the passing of Ernest (Ernie) Tate in Toronto on 5 February. An outstanding partisan of global anti-imperialist solidarity, Ernie also … Keep reading »

  • Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Egypt Yanis Iqbal | February 11, 2021

    The whiplash of authoritarianism is being ruthlessly used in Egypt. On January 6, 2021, Ahmed Khalifa, social news editor of Egypt 360 website, was arrested after publishing a series of … Keep reading »

  • Socialists on Social Media Platforms and Imagine Platform Socialism

    Bertolt Brecht, in the 1932 essay ‘The Radio as an Apparatus of Communication’, made a ‘positive suggestion’ to transform radio into a dialogical medium for many-to-many communications. ‘Radio is one-sided when it should be two’ said Brecht. Brecht saw the state as the only entity capable of remaking radio in this way, but because radio’s ‘proper application’ might make it a ‘revolutionary’ medium, Brecht concluded the bourgeois state would have ‘no interest in sponsoring such exercises’. Presentations by Tanner Mirrlees and Derek Hrynyshyn.

  • Understanding Naval’nyi David Mandel | February 10, 2021

    To understand Aleksei Naval’nyi’s significance for Russia as a leading figure of the opposition, one needs some idea of the nature of the political regime of President Vladimir Putin. This … Keep reading »

  • The US is Trying to Provoke a Soft Coup in Cuba Rosa Miriam Elizalde | February 9, 2021

    We are in the era of soft coups. Old-fashioned coups d’état and invasions get terrible press. The images of US troops invading the Dominican Republic in 1965 or marching through … Keep reading »

  • Stock Market Pipedreams | February 8, 2021

    We chat about Biden’s cancelling of the Keystone XL pipeline, as well as a socialist perspective on the GameStop stock surge and financial market ‘democratization’. Listen to audio »

  • Trump May Be Gone, But Neofascism Remains Vishwas Satgar | February 7, 2021

    At last, the Donald Trump Presidency has crash landed and he is out of the White House. Now, we can all start dealing with ‘Trump trauma’ and shock. What did … Keep reading »

  • Socialist Activist, Ecologist: The Wayne Roberts We Knew Harry Kopyto, Gord Doctorow and John Darling | February 6, 2021

    The tributes that have been made to Wayne Roberts (born 30 September 1944) for his work as a food-policy leader and activist are well known and continue to be made … Keep reading »

  • 01/06/21: The Insurrection that Wasn’t Bryan Palmer | February 5, 2021

    “Only the chief … can still save bourgeois society. Only theft can still save property; only perjury, religion; bastardy, the family; disorder, order!” Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis … Keep reading »

  • Remembering Leo Panitch

    Leo Panitch was a Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University, a renowned political economist, Marxist theorist and editor of the Socialist Register since 1985.

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