Month: April 2025

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…

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Trump’s Assault on the Planet is an Assault on Us! Sun. Apr 13 Speak Out Socialists Public Meetings Removing environmental protections, erasing decades of climate research, expanding drilling — the Trump administration has exposed this system for what it really is: a dictatorship of a tiny class of billionaires, who have put all life on this planet at risk. They have accelerated capitalism’s path of destruction in pursuit of profit. Now is the time to stand up to Trump and his cronies, to fight for our future, and to get…

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spite exposing their tremendous ignorance and political illiteracy. For them, the class struggle does not exist, there are only “struggles between countries”: China against the US. or Europe against Russia. The revisionism of the groups of the 99% of the global left, and the corrupt policy of class collaboration with the “progressive” capitalist coalitions have turned them into reformist groups. These groups that flaunt their analyses as vulgar Marxists. The battles between oppressors and oppressed that characterized all the preceding centuries for vulgar Marxists, Stalinists, reformists and revisionists, no longer…

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Sarah Glynn and John Clarke presented their new book, Climate Change is a Class Issue, at a February 16 meeting of the Global Ecosocialist Network. Climate Change is a Class Issue is a vital new publication that explains the link between capitalism and the climate crisis, and discusses the solution: ecosocialism. Glynn is a writer and activist who has worked as an architect in England and as a university lecturer in Scotland, researching issues around lower-income housing and multiculturalism. She is now based in Strasbourg, where she works for the…

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Join us in Chicago for a four day conference of socialist politics, education, and community. July 3-6, 2025 Join Sophie Lewis for an unflinching tour of two hundred years of enemy feminisms—from 19th century imperial feminists and police officers to 20th century KKK feminists and pornophobes to today’s anti-abortion, TERF, and Zionist feminists. By way of a reckoning with these counterproductive, violent feminisms, this session will make the case for the bold, liberatory, antifascist feminist politics we need instead. Don’t miss it! Register for Socialism 2025 today! Register for Socialism…

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Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In 1962, Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa (1931–1993), mostly known as Flora Nwapa, sent a book manuscript to the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe (1930–2013). Four years earlier, Achebe, at the tender age of twenty-eight, had published his landmark novel Things Fall Apart with Heinemann. The novel arrived in Heinemann’s London office as the decolonisation movement began to change the shape of the African continent (Ghana won its independence in 1957, three years after Nigeria – both countries with an…

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