In order to become meaningful citizens of Sri Lanka, the Malaiyala Tamil people call for the:
Sri Lanka- The Malaiyala Tamil people call for…
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The Return of the “Era of Crises, Wars, and Revolutions”
Claudia Cinatti and Matías Maiello July 11, 2023 The 12th conference of the Trotskyist Fraction — Fourth International (FT-CI) discussed the prospects for the internationalist revolutionary Left On May 13 and 14, the virtual session of the 12th Conference of the Trotskyist Fraction for the Fourth International (FT-CI) was held. A version of the document presented below served as a basis for discussion, along with other articles and contributions, and we have incorporated the contributions and conclusions resulting from these discussions. As we have laid out, a period has opened up in which…
New Agenda 89: Revisiting UDF 40 years later
Unions and the UDF A look back at the lessons of the 1980s By Devan Pillay This article traces back to the roots of the tension between the democratic-socialist future promised by the UDF in the 1980s and the independent unions who warned of the dangers of nationalist politics where liberation elites take command instead of the working class. DEVAN PILLAY considers the lessons for today of the 1980s heightened political conflict. INTRODUCTION The African National Congress (ANC), in alliance with the SA Communist Party (SACP) and the Congress of…
The Global South breaks away from the U.S.-led world order
BY MICHELLE JAMRISKO AND IAIN MARLOWBLOOMBERG Aug 8, 2023 Let trade run free. Tie your currency to the U.S. dollar. Align your foreign policy with America’s. The U.S. and its Western partners wrote these economic rules, a cornerstone of the world order prevailing since World War II. Now developing countries, often called the Global South, are quietly revising them. The Global South sees a chance to chart its own future. Nirupama Menon Rao, a former Indian foreign secretary, points to her country’s spreading of digital payments to developing nations. “India’s outreach to countries…
Long waves of strikes in South Africa, 1886 – 2022
Despite the resurgence of strikes in recent years, studies on the temporality of strike waves within a long wave perspective has been marked by silence in the literature.…
REMEMBERING THE RABAA MASSACRE
Seven years ago, on 14 August 2013, the Egyptian army stormed a sit-in at Cairo’s Rabaa square and slaughtered more than 1,000 people who were protesting against the removal of the country’s first democratically elected President, Mohamed Morsi. Members of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian opposition had been demonstrating outside the Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque in Cairo for 47 days when security forces attacked at around 6am on 14 August 2013. Security forces shot indiscriminately into the crowd, set fire to the tents people had gathered in and threw tear…
What Is Post-Marxism & Why It’s A Problem ft. Lillian Cicerchia
Left Reckoning This is an excerpt from our conversation with Lillian Cicerchia (@LILCICERCH) post-doc at the Free University Of Berlin & co-host of What’s Left Of Philosophy podcast on the problem with the book Hegemony & Socialist Strategy & post-marxism.
What Is Marxism?
An explanation of classical Marxism, followed by an explanation of the general term ‘Marxism.’
People’s movements across the world say: Cuba is not a state sponsor of terror!
Movement organizations collect signatures for the “Let Cuba Live” campaign to demand that Cuba be removed from the US state sponsors of terrorism list August 11, 2023 by Peoples Dispatch On August 11, artists, intellectuals, political leaders, people’s movements, trade unions, and political parties from around the world launched a historic campaign to call on US President Joe Biden to remove Cuba from the state sponsors of terrorism list. The convening organizations of this campaign, the International Peoples’ Assembly (IPA), ALBA Movimientos, Foro de São Paulo, Trade Union Confederation of the Americas,…
Statement Calling for Recognition of, and Reparative Action for Malaiyaham 200
