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Rocio Navarro (Mexico), Watering Day, 2024. Dear Friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. March is the month of International Working Women’s Day, a day deeply rooted in the socialist movement. Most of the world now only calls 8 March ‘International Women’s Day’, excluding the word ‘working’ from its title. But work is a fundamental part of women’s daily lives. According to UN Women’s annual report Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The Gender Snapshot 2024, 63.3% of women worldwide participated in the labour force in…

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By José Miguel Gándara Carretero- From La Marx Spain Yolanda González Martín was murdered by fascist elements of Francoism during the period known in our country as “the transition”, that is, the transition phase from the Franco dictatorship to the bourgeois democratic regime that was the result of the Moncloa Pact between the years 1975 and 1982. Yolanda was murdered on February 1, 1980 and was a member of the Socialist Party of the United States. Workers (PST) of Spain, the party that was part of the current international Trotskyism…

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La Marx International A new revolution of the workers and the people is sweeping through Greece with the outbreak of the massive and historic rallies that took place on February 28, 2025, on the occasion of the second anniversary of the Tempi train accident in which 57 people died. The mobilizations against the government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotákis and the New Democracy Party are of historic proportions with more than 260 cities and towns across the country, and in more than 125 cities abroad. Millions of people mobilized in…

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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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