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06/07/2024 Revolution's Newsstand Striking hotel workers, 1913. ‘Hotel Workers Battling in New York Against all the Forces of Reaction’ by Frank Pease from Solidarity. Vol. 4 No. 5. January 25, 1913. I.W.W. Influence Predominating. (Special to Solidarity.) New York, Jan. 17. The International Hotel Workers’ Union, an organization of hotel and restaurant workers with a membership of 25,000, has been on strike in the city of New York for the past week. The strike was called to protest against certain conditions that prevail in this industry. These conditions are: insufficient pay, long hours, poor food, unsanitary conditions where these workers eat, where their clothes are stored during work hours, toilet, etc., and the intervention of the employment shark between the workers and...

Culture is a fundamental field of battle in the necessary transformation, without which revolutions are impossible, of the working class from a ‘class in itself’ to a ‘class for itself’. ‘Artistic’ vehicles like film dominate the presentation of dominant ideas today. Previously, it was theater. Moissaye Olgin looks at the state of artistic production and presents these seven theses for the establishment of a workers’ theater in the U.S. ‘For a Workers’ Theatre’ by Moissaye Olgin from the Daily Worker Saturday Supplement. Vol. 4 No. 68 & 74. April 2 & 9, 1927. “Why necessarily a workers’ theatre? Why not a better theatre for all?” The question has been raised wherever the theatre came up for discussion in so-called radical intellectual circles. The theatre as it exists is s...

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Life in the Toronto Branch of the League for Socialist Action, 1961-1977 – video 93 minutes – “LET’S RENT A TRAIN!” is an unprecedented historical film about the rise and fall of a militant revolutionary group that profoundly altered Canada’s political landscape. During the social upheaval of the 1960s and 1970s, several hundred highly disciplined activists led Canada’s antiwar movement against the U.S. invasion of Vietnam, and exposed Ottawa’s financial and diplomatic complicity with the Pentagon. The League for Socialist Action (LSA), also played a key role in winning the abortion rights struggle, and defended Dr. Henry Morgentaler when he was jailed for defying Canada’s abortion law. The film’s sixty interviewees include these noted dissidents: Don Tapscott (best-sell...

Resolution – 6 May 2024 Believing that the worsening situation in Gaza and the urgency of taking measures to achieve lasting peace, places a responsibility on all academic institutions to respond to this ongoing crisis. Senate therefore resolved to: Support the call for an immediate ceasefire and the free flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza, unhindered by the Israeli Defence Force and Israeli civilians. Demand the return of captured civilians and political prisoners who have not been found guilty of any gross human rights violations by impartial courts of law on either side. Support a comprehensive and consistent boycott of Israeli academic institutions and academics who may be proved to be complicit in supporting Israel in oppressing the Palestinian people, as called for by pr...

On the 5th of May, Karl Henry Marx was born at TRIR in RHINE province (GERMAN). He is PRUSSIA-GERMAN Philosopher, Sociologist, Economist, Writer, Poet, Political Journalist, Linguist, Public Figure, Historien. The most famous works are the MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY (1848 in co-authorship with Friedrich Engels) and ‘CAPITAL’ criticism of Political Economy (1867-1883). Marx’s Political and Philosophical though had a huge impact on subsequent intellectual, economic and political history. Marx proved that human society at each stage is developing as a result of class struggle caused by contradictions in the interests of various public classes. The core is the conflict between the owners of the means of production and mercenary workers selling their labour force in exchange f...

Argentina Towards the 6th International Ecosocialist Meeting 2 May by Maria Elena Saludas On 9, 10 and 11 May 2024, the 6th International Ecosocialist Meeting and the 1st Latin American and Caribbean Ecosocialist Meeting will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.. What is ecosocialism and what does it advocate? Our aim is to put the (vast) theoretical and political ecosocialist trajectory of the North and South into dialogue. Ecosocialism is a political doctrine that emerged during the transition from the 20th to the 21st century and articulates the fundamental ideas of Marxist socialism with those emerging from climate struggles. Ecosocialists believe that capitalism is a system that is intrinsically harmful to both society and the environment. It is both ...

With authors Scott Aquanno and Steve Maher. Moderated by Lenart Nici. Recorded in Toronto, 27 April, 2024. The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is proud to present the launch of the new book from Scott Aquanno and Steve Maher: The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From J.P. Morgan to Blackrock (Verso, 2024). Today, it is all but taken for granted that finance is parasitic on industry. Financialization, in this view, amounts to financial institutions capturing the state, hollowing out the ‘real’ economy, and hastening the decline of capitalism. Stephen Maher and Scott Aquanno challenge these arguments in their new book. They insist that, despite the costs to workers and the middle class over the last decades, financialization has boosted competitiveness and strengthened cap...

Born on 5th May 1818 Died on 14th March 1883.  Know why Karl Marx called Religion “The Opium of the People” and his dream of a communist revolution: The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes Religion, Religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world... Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed c...