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La Marx International When Trump negotiates with Putin, Maduro, or Netanyahu, bourgeois opinionologists are left speechless. “Trump shakes the world order”, “Trump revolutionises global politics”, “Trump breaks with Europe and breaks NATO” are some of the comments of capitalist analysts astonished by Donald Trump’s policy. The reformist left is speechless. When Trump publicly quarrels with Ukrainian President Zelensky in the Oval Office of the White House, and opens the “weekend crisis” with Ukraine, bourgeois analysts are shocked: “This is new, Trump kicks the board!” say the charlatans of the media…

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*18 February 2025* *SAFTU Statement on the Fourth Quarter 2024 Labour Force Survey – 18 February 2025* The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) notes with deep concern the latest Quarterly Labour Force Survey (QLFS) for Q4 2024, released today by Statistics South Africa. The data confirms what SAFTU has consistently warned: there is nothing to celebrate. The expanded unemployment rate remains catastrophically high at 41.9%, indicating no significant improvement in the dire jobs crisis. Even more troubling is that six out of nine provinces continue to suffer unemployment…

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Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. There are days when the dusk of events settles heavily on me, and I try to find a way to retreat into a quiet corner and throw myself into the world of a book. It does not matter if it is a novel or a history book, as long as the author is able to conjure up a world that transports me from the flood of brutalities to an island of imagination. In recent months, I have been…

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Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Lost in a colonial fog of inferiority, writers across Asia imagined a world that was beyond the reach of colonialism’s devastation. In 1835, Kylas Chunder Dutt (1817–1859) wrote a remarkable story called ‘A Journal of Forty-Eight Hours of the Year 1945’; the story, published in The Calcutta Literary Gazette, came out when the great French science fiction novelist Jules Verne (1828–1905) was only seven years old. Dutt’s account is not strictly science fiction, but largely futuristic. The eighteen-year-old…

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On the 31st January 2025 Maduro’s dictadorship sealed an agreement with Richard Grenell, representative of the new U.S. government of Donald Trump, by which, instead of continuing to exploit venezuelan oil, Trump wll support the dictasdorship. the workers and people of Venezuela together with the peoples of the world we must reject this sell- out and imperialist agreement made by the dictadorship for the benefit of the millonaire owners of the multinationals imperialist. While the opposition representative of the democratic unity roundtable (MUD) the opposition, María Corina Machado, is silent…

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Join us in Chicago for a four day conference of socialist politics, education, and community. July 3-6, 2025 Registration is now open for Socialism 2025! The far right ascends around the globe amid war and wildfires. The coming period promises more and deeper crises, but also to ignite mass social movements with increasing frequency. Caught between fear and determination, working and oppressed people confront a pivotal political moment. It is a crucial time for the left to come together and build durable organizations, coalitions, and relationships. At this critical juncture,…

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Bishop Budde has been facing death threats since she asked Trump to show mercy to people fearing for their lives. Now even the President is painting her as the enemy and we can’t abandon her. Let’s show Bishop Budde she has massive support all around the world! Sign Now Dear friends, After Trump signed a flurry of policies targeting migrants and rolling back protection for LGBTQ+ people, no one seemed willing to stand in his way. That’s when Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde knew she had to speak truth to power…

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