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Statement on May Day 2025 – Workers’ Rights Around the World
On this International Workers’ Day, we honour the struggles and achievements of workers across the globe who have fought tirelessly for fair wages, safe working conditions, and dignity in labour. May Day is not just a celebration of past victories but a call to action for the ongoing fight against exploitation, inequality, and oppression in workplaces worldwide. In 2025, workers continue to face immense challenges—from rising automation and precarious gig economy jobs to union suppression and wage stagnation. In many countries, labour rights are under attack, with governments and corporations…
How Worker-to-Worker Unionism Can Transform America
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…
Waiting for a New Bandung Spirit: The Sixteenth Newsletter (2025)
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…
Comrade Anil Chaudhary is no more. His Struggle Lives On
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…
The Buchenwald Concentration Camp Was Liberated by Communist Prisoners: The Fifteenth Newsletter (2025)
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:…
Long live the Revolution in Turkey!
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…
Trump’s Assault on the Planet is an Assault on Us!
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…
Donald Trump aggravates the collapse of capitalism
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…
(Video) Climate change is a class issue.
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…