Socialism or Barbarism? Why Rosa Luxemburg matters Today
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Long live the revolution in Bangladesh!!
La Marx International A huge insurrection led by thousands of young people is raging in 47 of Bangladesh’s 64 districts against the capitalist government of Sheikh Hasina Wazed and the Awami League in the world’s eighth most populous country. Prime Minister Hasina’s government has imposed a curfew, and the deployment of the army has launched a crackdown to stop the movement that has caused more than 100 deaths, according to breaking hospital data. Hasina’s government has also cut off telecommunications connections, news channels, and the internet to prevent the development…
Even in Palestine, the Birds Shall Return: The Thirty-First Newsletter (2024)
Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 26 July, senior United Nations (UN) officials briefed the UN Security Council about the terrible situation in Gaza. ‘More than two million people in Gaza remain trapped in an endless nightmare of death and destruction on a staggering scale’, said Deputy Commissioner-General Antonia De Meo of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Within Gaza, the UN officials wrote, 625,000 children are trapped, ‘their futures at risk’. The World Health Organisation has recorded ‘outbreaks…
Presidentials 2024: Vote null, blank or abstention in the elections
By Simon Gallagher – La Marx US The candidacies of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump represent and defend the interests of the ruling classes. Their candidacies serve the interests of bankers, millionaires, Wall Street, and Pentagon bosses. Both parties are responsible for the growing poverty and inequality of our people, as well as for the war crimes that are perpetrated against the peoples in Palestine, Ukraine, and in the past, in Iraq or Vietnam. Don’t vote for them! Annul your vote, vote blank, or abstention in the 2024 presidential elections!…
“WE DO NOT SAY GOOD-BYE TO SUCHARITHA GAMLATH ! I
“WE DO NOT SAY GOOD-BYE TO SUCHARITHA GAMLATH ! I HAVE A BOND TO CONTINUE WITH HIS CORRECT WORLD VIEW AND CONSCIOUSNESS “ Excerpted from the speech given by Wicramabahu Karunarathne at the funeral of comrade Sucharitha Gamlath We are not saying good-bye to comrade Bahu or go to heaven or nirvana. But we fraternally ask all of fellow socialists continue the social transformation that comrade Bahu once tried to implement on be-half of all oppressed in the world. (Asia commun committee – Sri Lanka)
No more silence cry for gaza…The War in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Will End: The Twenty-Seventh Newsletter (2024)No more silence cry for gaza…
Jardy Ndombasi (DRC), Soulèvement populaire et souveraineté (‘Popular Uprising and Sovereignty’), 2024. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 20 June, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) condemned the attacks on civilians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) ‘in the strongest terms’. In its press statement, the UNSC wrote that these attacks – by both the DRC’s armed forces and various rebel groups supported by neighbouring countries such as Rwanda and Uganda – ‘are worsening the volatile security and stability in the…
Programme of Action for the Global Anti Apartheid Movement against Israel and for Palestine
The Global Anti-Apartheid Conference for Palestine held in Johannesburg, South Africa, on 12th May 2024, attended by over 400 participants from 32 countries, adopted the ‘Johannesburg Declaration on Israel’s Settler-Colonialism, Apartheid and Genocide: Towards a Global Anti-Apartheid Movement for Palestine’. The Declaration urged people and organisations globally to expand and escalate actions in solidarity with the Palestinian people’s courageous liberation struggle to end genocide, ethnic cleansing, occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid ‘from the River to the Sea’. Since the Johannesburg conference, and despite the provisional measures issued by the International Court…
Presidentials 2024: Vote null, blank or abstention in the elections
By Simon Gallagher – La Marx US The candidacies of Joe Biden and Donald Trump represent and defend the interests of the ruling classes. Their candidacies serve the interests of bankers, millionaires, Wall Street, and Pentagon bosses. Both parties are responsible for the growing poverty and inequality of our people, as well as for the war crimes that are perpetrated against the peoples in Palestine, Ukraine, and in the past in Iraq, or Vietnam. Don’t vote for them! Annul your vote, vote blank, or abstention in the 2024 presidential elections! U.S.…
Building a Planet of Peace Is the Only Realistic Thing to Do: The Twenty-Eighth Newsletter (2024)
Beatriz González (Colombia), Señor presidente, qué honor estar con usted en este momento histórico (‘Mr President, What an Honour to Be with You in This Historic Moment’), 1987. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. There are times in life when you want to set aside complexity and return to the essence of things. Last week, I was on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, travelling from Isla Grande to the mainland of Colombia, when it began to rain heavily. Though our boat was modest,…
The Commune, a living tradition for Pumé people in Venezuela
