Category: English

China’s speculative bubble begins its way to explode as the world economy slows into recession

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By Daniel Campos, La Marx International 10/7/21 Two events aggravate the world crisis of capitalism: 1) The “recovery” has ended and the slowdown of the global capitalist economy begins 2) China’s speculative bubble begins to burst, the largest in the history of capitalism, a process synthesized in the crisis of the real estate giant Evergrande.  We are going to analyze these two great facts, which the defenders of capitalism keep silent and hide.  1) End of the “rebound” and slowdown in the world economy  The crisis of capitalism has been going on for more than 20…

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Casual Women Workers Organise

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9 Aug 2023 ZUID-AFRIKA A film by casualised women workers, shot in Gauteng, South Africa, and produced by the Casual Workers Advice Office (cwao.org.za). In this film, casualised women workers speak about sexual harassment by labour brokers, being made to share personal protective equipment (PPE), being forced to buy lunch for supervisors in order to get overtime. The women workers tell of how they came together as the Simunye Women Workers’ Forum with the support of the CWAO, to fight for their legal right to be made permanent at work.

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Save the Idea of India – the Unity in diversity…

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By Jayantha Das Save the Idea of India – the Unity in diversity, Save Indian Constitution, Put an end to attack on minority, Women, Tribals,, Dalits, Backwards, Students, Youth, Working Class from the attack of Corporate propelled Fascist BJP &NDA. Vote out NDA and Vote for Indian National Developmental Inclussive Alliance – I N D I A, CPI Odisha State Council meeting held in CPI Office at Gada Hutting Road Barbil Keonjhar on 18th,19th and 20th August 2023.

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The Return of the “Era of Crises, Wars, and Revolutions”

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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…

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New Agenda 89: Revisiting UDF 40 years later

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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…

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The Global South breaks away from the U.S.-led world order

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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…

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REMEMBERING THE RABAA MASSACRE

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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…

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