Category: English

Why are the Summits between China and the US “multiplying” ?

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By La Marx International In the last 7 months the “summits” between the United States and China have multiplied. After years without official meetings between the two governments, suddenly in recent months the meetings have become recurring, and frantic. Visits by high-ranking officials of the United States government to China are permanent, or meetings between the governments of China and the US, whether bilateral, as well as at the G20 or Davos world summits. From 7 months ago there was a long Summit of the governments of Joe Biden, and…

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Communal socialism in Venezuela

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Venezuelan communes—where productive activities are controlled by a range of community assemblies—are fascinating examples of socialist forces experimenting with the creation of new social forms. Venezuela’s communes are an attempt to address some of the shortcomings of cooperatives and state-owned socialist factories by addressing not just economic production but other social relationships like parenting and gender relations at the grassroots level. Chris Gilbert, author of the forthcoming book Commune or Nothing! Venezuela’s Communal Movement and Its Socialist Project and co-author (with Cira Pascual Marquina) of Venezuela, the Present as Struggle,…

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‘Not By Politics Alone’ by Leon Trotsky from Problems of Life. George H. Doran Publishers, New York. 1924.

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06/25/2023 Revolution’s Newsstand First published in Pravda on July 10, 1923. ‘Not By Politics Alone’ by Leon Trotsky from Problems of Life. George H. Doran Publishers, New York. 1924. This simple thought should be thoroughly grasped and borne in mind by all who speak or write for propaganda purposes. Changed times bring changed tunes. The pre-revolutionary history of our party was a history of revolutionary politics. Party literature, party organizations—everything was ruled by politics in the direct and narrow sense of that word. The revolutionary crisis has intensified to a…

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India Will Pay 70% of Cost but Micron Will Own 100% of the Plant—ACurious Business Model

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By Prabir Purkayastha The deal with Micron during PM Modi’s visit to the United States has madeheadlines as a major technological breakthrough and a new dawn for India’selectronics chip-making industry. Implicit in this hurrah for the Micron deal is thatIndia has completely missed the bus on the key technologies involved in electronicchip making. And for those who know technology would realize that the Micron dealis only for packaging of the chips, their assembly and testing, a relatively low end ofthe electronics industry. It does not touch the core technologies of…

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The Theory of the Permanent Revolution

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In April 1917, Lenin returned to Russia and politically re-armed the Bolshevik Party with the slogan “all power to the soviets”. In doing so, Lenin was affirming Leon Trotsky’s theory of the permanent revolution: the analysis that the capitalist class in the colonial countries, arriving late onto the scene of history in an epoch of imperialism, had long ceased to play any progressive role and could not carry out the tasks of the bourgeois democratic revolution and national liberation. The conclusion: that socialists and revolutionaries in Russia could not give…

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විදුලි කාර් නිශ්පාදනයේ අඳුරු පැත්ත…

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කොබෝල්ට් තදබදයෙන් විපතට පත් වූවන් පිළිබදව FRANCE 24 හි විමර්ශනය කරයි. අද සමස්ත ලෝකයම මුහුණ දී ඇති දේශගුණික අර්බුදය මධ්‍යයේ විදුලි මෝටර් රථ පිරිසිදු බලශක්ති ප්‍රභවයක් වශයෙන් හුවා දැක්වීමට මෝටර් රථ නිශ්පාදනයේ යෙදී සිටින බලවත් රටවල් හා සමාගම් උත්සාහ කරමින් සිටිති. පුද්ගලික භාවිතයට යොදා ගන්නා මෝටර් රථ නිපදවීම වෙනුවට පොදු ප්‍රවාහන සේවය දියුණු කිරීම හා ව්‍යාප්ත කිරීම බැහැර කර ඇති බලවත් ජාතීන් හා සමාගම් විදුලි මෝටර් රථය විසදුමක් ලෙස ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත. මෙහි අරමුණ වනුයේ ධනපති සමාගම්වල ලාභ අනුපාතය උපරිම කර ගැනීම මිස දේශගුණික අර්බුදයට විසදුමක් ගෙන ඒ්ම නොවේ.  මෙම…

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(1852) Frederick Douglass, “What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July”

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Frederick Douglass, ca. 1852 Daguerreotype photo by Samuel J. Miller Posted on January 24, 2007 _ Contributed by: BlackPast On July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass was invited to address the citizens of his hometown, Rochester, New York. Whatever the expectations of his audience on that 76th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Douglass used the occasion not to celebrate the nation’s triumphs but to remind all of its continuing enslavement of millions of people. Douglass’s speech appears below. Mr. President, Friends and Fellow Citizens: He who could…

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Sri Lanka: Civil society statement condemning the abuse of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) Act to violate the freedom of expression

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22nd June, 2023 Sri Lanka: Civil society statement condemning the abuse of the International Covenant onCivil and Political Rights (ICCPR) Act to violate the freedom of expression We the undersigned individuals and organisations are deeply concerned by the continuing abuseof law including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) Act, No. 56 of2007 and its selective application to violate the freedom of expression in Sri Lanka. The state hassystematically used the ICCPR law, which was meant to promote and protect human rights, tosilence and punish human rights defenders,…

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SOCIALISM 2023: The “Show” of the reformist and bourgeois left

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La Marx International 1/7/23 A series of organizations, groups, and NGO’s that support the imperialist government of Joe Biden and the Democratic Party of the United States convene a conference called “SOCIALISM 2023” in Chicago, USA. The Conference is convened by Haymarket publishing house with the political and economic support from organizations such as the Democratic Socialist of America (DSA), or Jacobin Magazine, an entire event that presents a panel of speakers made up massively of intellectuals, university professors, professors, opinion experts, civil servants, and members of NGOs linked to…

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