Against The Tide
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‘The Permanent Revolution and the Canton Insurrection’ (1928) by Leon Trotsky from The Militant. Vol. 4 No. 33. November 8, 1931.
The debate over policy in China during the 1920s was central to the course of the Comintern, and the history of the Russian Communist Party. A crucial year politically for the Chinese revolution and the Soviet Union was 1927, which saw the Guangzhou Uprising and violent end of the First United Front with the Koumintang. as well as the defeat and expulsion of the United Opposition in Russia; events that would have profound impacts on the future of China, the Soviet Union, and international Communist movement. Shortly after the uprising…
Workers Vanguard…
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The Build & Fight Formula: Community Production…
The Build & Fight Formula and proudly presents this groundbreaking multi-part educational series! The Build and Fight Formula Educational Series critically explores how to build eco-socialism from the ground up through the self-organized efforts of the working class and oppressed peoples. This month, part five of the series features Kali and Seez-way, who are joined by Blair from The People’s Network for Land and Liberation, for an in-depth presentation of the necessary structures, methods, and processes required to develop a successful community production effort. The presentation is presented in partnership…
Nuclear Options
Originally From: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/nuclear-options?pc=1682 Tariq Ali 17 June 2025Politics The expansion of the war from Palestine to Iran, which began on 13 June, signals an Israeli obsession persisting for four decades. As the Trump administration was negotiating in bad faith with Iran over its nuclear programme, the Israeli regime took advantage of an interval to bomb Tehran, assassinating leading scientists, a senior general and other officials, some of them engaged in the talks. After a few unconvincing denials, Trump admitted that the US had been informed of the attack ahead of time.…
Pedagogy and Class Power: Reclaiming Freire in an Age of Reaction
By Joe Coleman (Posted Jun 12, 2025) Originally From: https://mronline.org/2025/06/12/pedagogy-and-class-power-reclaiming-freire-in-an-age-of-reaction/# In the early decades of the twenty-first century, education has become a frontline in the ideological struggle over the future of global capitalism. The coordinated assault on teachers, curriculum, and institutions of public learning is not an isolated culture war but a structural feature of neoliberal governance. In this context, the pedagogical philosophy of Paulo Freire demands renewed attention—not as an abstract theory of “engaged learning,” but as a revolutionary praxis situated in a broader Marxist tradition of class struggle.¹…
Ukraine strikes the blow! Long live the Ukrainian revolution!
The National Liberation Army of Ukraine (ЗСУ) carried out a series of large-scale drone attacks on air bases of Putin’s army on the territory of the Russian Federation on June 1, 2025. That series of attacks, which the Ukrainians have dubbed “Operation Spider Web,” destroyed around 40 aircraft, a percentage that is equivalent to almost 40% of Putin’s aircraft fleet. Ukraine has dealt an extraordinary blow! A coup that encourages and stimulates the national liberation revolutions that are developing in Kurdistan, Palestine, Syria, Yemen, Georgia, Chashemyra, etc., where the militias…
Please Ensure That the Planet Does Not Burn: The Twenty-Third Newsletter (2025)
Rebecca Lee Kunz (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma), Coyote Skin – Dusty Paws, 2022. Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Reading documents from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) makes me morose. Everything looks terrible. This is largely due to the social processes set in motion by capitalism, including the harsh use of nature and the reliance on carbon-based fuels. For example: These are three out of hundreds of points that could be made from as many scientific documents. It is important to emphasise the fact that…
Hundreds of Millions Are Dying of Hunger: The Twenty-Second Newsletter (2025)
Maksud Mirmuhamedov (Tajikistan), Hearth, 2020. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. I have written this newsletter before. In fact, I could write this newsletter every year when a new Global Report on Food Crises is published. The report rests on four points: Sao Sreymao (Cambodia), Left Over, 2017. Let’s add in the data. Point no. 1: 733 million people faced chronic hunger in 2023, according to studies from the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), World Food Programme, World Health Organisation, International Fund for Agricultural…
No Genocide Ambassador in Our City!
May 28, 2025 | Barry Weisleder Hundreds of supporters of the Palestinian people rallied outside a famous Toronto tourist attraction to protest the presence of an invited Zionist war criminal on the evening of May 27. Gilad Erdan, Israeli politician and former ambassador to the United Nations, attended a fundraising dinner at Casa Loma hosted by the Zionist advocacy group, the Abraham Global Peace Initiative. Erdan is notorious for tearing up a copy of the U.N. Charter when he addressed that body, declaring that countries whose leaders are critical of…