By Jayantha Das
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Worker cooperatives are gaining increasing importance in the present global situation due to their potential to address economic, social, and environmental challenges. Here are some key reasons why they matter today: 1. Economic Resilience & Democratic Ownership 2. Fair Wages & Reduced Exploitation 3. Addressing Precarious Work & Job Insecurity 4. Sustainability & Ethical Business Practices 5. Community Development & Local Empowerment 6. Alternative to Corporate Monopolies 7. Response to Automation & AI Displacement 8. Global Movements & Policy Shifts Challenges & the Path Forward Despite their benefits, worker cooperatives…
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Demetrio Urruchúa (Argentina), Nuevo orden (The New Order), 1939. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On an evening in September 2024, Argentina’s President Javier Milei stood before a large crowd in Parque Lezama in Buenos Aires. He wore his signature dark leather jacket and barked out his speech, the crowd devouring every word. ‘Here you have the trolls’, he said, ‘corrupt journalists, shady characters. These are the trolls’. Then, he pointed at the people in the crowd and said that they were invisible because…
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La Marx International On March 15, Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, witnessed the largest demonstration in its history, even larger than the one that overthrew the dictatorship of the genocidal Slobodan Milošević on October 5, 2000. The Serbian capital brought together more than 700,000 protesters in a city of less than two million inhabitants, causing the human tide to take two hours to cross the 450 meters of Branko Bridge, which spans the Sava River. It is a true revolution that is demolishing the capitalist government of Aleksandar Vučić, who…
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Join us in Chicago for a four day conference of socialist politics, education, and community. July 3-6, 2025 Haymarket Books is thrilled to welcome 50+ endorsing organizations (and counting!) as partners in bringing you this year’s Socialism Conference! The Socialism Conference is a place where radicals, socialists, abolitionists, and labor militants come together to share ideas, analysis, historical lessons, and strategic discussions about the world we live in and the world we’re fighting for. The conference can only play this role because of the wide range of left-wing organizations and media…
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Public Forum: The Fight Against Trump and the New Far Right Donald Trump is pushing through his reactionary agenda. Oppressed groups such as migrants, women and trans people are under attack. Trump and his cronies are pushing through pro-business politics, where the nation’s billionaires will make massive profits while ordinary people suffer. These reactionary politics are giving confidence to a global far-right movement. How can we fight against this vile agenda? Join Socialist Alternative for this anti-capitalist discussion. This forum will include a special panel, consisting of Omar Hassan, Victorian…
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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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