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153 years ago, on March 18, 1871, the Paris Commune began. For two and a half months, the workers would, for the first time in history, exercise power themselves on the scale of a city of two million inhabitants. Drowned in blood after these few weeks, the Commune would remain as the first experience and as the example of what the power of the working class could be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBq6YaK7GqU ASIACOMMUNE.ORG

The Africa Regional Conference of the International Transport Workers’ Federation unanimously passed a motion authored by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa calling for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza, an end to political support for Israel, and expressing solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom.March 14, 2024 by Tanupriya Singh General Secretary of NUMSA, Irvin Jim, presented the motion to express solidarity with the Palestinian people. Photo: IFT Global Union Unions in Africa affiliated with the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), representing 18.5 million transport workers and 740 unions worldwide, have called for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, an end to political support for Israel, and expresse...

INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE IN NETHERLANDS! South Africa has today (Wednesday, 6 March 2024) approached the International Court of Justice (ICJ) with an urgent application for the provisional measures the court ordered on 26 January 2024 to be strengthened to prevent a catastrophic famine in the Gaza Strip. The urgent application has been necessitated by widespread starvation in Gaza, which has claimed the lives of at least 15 children in the past week alone, with the actual numbers believed to be much higher. United Nations experts warn that the number of deaths will increase exponentially unless military activities are halted and the blockade is lifted. South Africa has therefore requested the indication and/or modification of the following provisional measures: 1.  &...

The following presentation was given by Tamás Krausz on February 1 as part of a panel on “What was socialism for Lenin?” that was part of the ongoing “Leninist Days/Journadas Leninistas” series of lectures. For more information or to register for “Leninist Days/Journadas Leninistas” visit its website here. This contribution is dedicated to the memory of Alexander Buzgalin (1954-2023), an outstanding dissident Communist and Marxist economist of the Soviet and post-Soviet period.  Rethinking Lenin Today, when a student sits an entrance exam to learn history at university, it is not certain that he/she can answer the question: Who was Lenin? Many bourgeois historians and textbooks define him as a failed lawyer, an angry journalist, terrorist, dictator, German agent, etc. In ...

There is another attempt at building a left party under way now that Joseph Matunjwa, of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu), has announced a new Labour Party. (Photo by Gallo Images / The Times / Masi Losi) Our best political commentators predicted that the project by a group of white billionaires to influence the outcome of the election with Roger Jardine stepping into the leadership of the Multi-Party Coalition would end in farce. Few could have predicted how swiftly it would happen. People with very big money made a very big error of judgment. Now that the project to propel Jardine into power has ended in a fiasco the remaining parties favoured by white capital are the Democratic Alliance (DA), ActionSA and Rise Mzansi. The DA’s standing is in sharp decli...

A woman is a child... She is a sister She is a wife... She is a mother... this is her role in the family... She is a chef...she is a care taker of her husband... his family members and kids... Here we should be grateful to the women who played a key role and established precedence... Helen Keller...who was a multi challenged woman...hearing impaired... visually challenged...due to hearing impaired she couldn't speak... She didn't lose her self confident... She found braily letters that was for the visually challenged... Though Braille was found out for the visually challenged....this is the first discovery for type writing...then computer typing and now we are using cell phone following the same Braille letter mode.. Florence nightingale... who must be...

Join the dialogue on Palestine to explore the crucial significance of free speech in educational discourse. Speakers include Azadeh Sobout , a postdoctoral scholar and teacher, and Mandy Turner , a senior researcher with Security in Context. This UCU-supported event at the University of Manchester is scheduled for March 13th at 1:00 pm via Zoom : https://zoom.us/j/97739977828. Meeting ID: 977 3997 7828