Month: April 2025

REMINDER: Register for Socialism 2025 by Friday, April 25th for the early bird discounted rate! At a bleak moment in US politics, the labor movement can provide a rare source of hope.Join labor scholar and organizer Eric Blanc for a timely discussion about the main lessons of the bottom-up unionization surge that has swept the US since 2021, and how this grassroots labor momentum can be maintained under the new Trump administration.This session is organized in partnership with the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee.Don’t miss it! Register for Socialism 2025 by April 25th for the early bird discounted rate! Register for Socialism 2025 by Friday, April 25! Find out what participants had to say about the last Socialism Conference! At this critical juncture, Socialism 2025 wi...

Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In the last days of March, I was in China’s new city of Xiong’an, less than a two-hour drive from Beijing. The city is being built to relieve congestion in the capital, but it will also be home to women and men who are eager to develop China’s new quality productive forces and will be the centre of universities, hospitals, research institutes, and innovative technology companies, including high-tech farming. Xiong’an has the ambition of reaching ‘net-zero’ carbon dioxide emissions while using big data to harness social science to improve the quality of people’s everyday lives. The city is built amidst a massive web of lakes, rivers, and canals, with Lake Baiyangdian at its heart. On a chilly af...

It is with profound grief and deep sorrow that we mourn the passing of Comrade Anil Chaudhary—a dedicated people’s educator, an activist, and a tireless warrior for social and economic justice. After bravely fighting for over a week on ventilator support following a severe heart attack, he breathed his last at Fortis Hospital, Gurugram.   Anil ji was a guiding light for the NATIONAL HAWKER FEDERATION and countless people’s movements across the country. For over four decades, he played a pivotal role in strengthening the struggle for land rights, amplifying the voices of the marginalized, and resisting neoliberal exploitation and state repression. His political clarity, incisive analysis, and courage in speaking truth to power made him a beloved comrade and a revered figure in ...

Boris Taslitzky (France), Insurrection à Buchenwald 11 avril 1945 (Insurrection at Buchenwald 11 April 1945), 1964. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Eighty years ago, on 11 April 1945, units of General George S. Patton’s 4th Armoured Division of the US armed forces drove toward the city of Weimar, Germany, where the Buchenwald concentration camp was located. Patton’s troops eventually took control of the camp, but soldiers’ statements, which were collected later by historians, suggest that the US tanks were not what liberated Buchenwald: the camp had already been seized by the organisation and courage of the prisoners who took advantage of the flight of German soldiers in the face of the Allied advance. Political prisoners ...

La Marx International A huge revolution with mobilizations growing on historic scales is unfolding in Turkey against the government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Justice and Development Party (Turkish: Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi, AKP). These mobilizations, which extend to more than 55 of Turkey's 81 provinces, erupted on March 19 when the AKP government arrested 45 people, including Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, Erdogan's main opponent. But the arrests have created more outrage and moved millions to take to the streets in mobilizations that grow and do not stop even though 1,900 people have been arrested in the demonstrations, including journalists and students. Revolution strikes at a pillar of global capitalism Turkey is a sub-metropolis of imperialist capital, a country that...