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With the failure of the January 6 attack on Congress to overturn the 2020 election, Trump’s final attempt to do so, many progressives and socialists thought that we were finished with Trump.
But it has become clearer that the Republican Party remains under Trump’s control. The concerted drive by (...)
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United States: Trump and Trumpism Make a Comeback Covid-19 (world) – Vaccine apartheid: A threat to an inclusive COP26 The ongoing global inequality in people’s access to life-saving Covid-19 vaccines is not just a global public health issue, it also threatens the inclusivity of the COP26 climate negotiations and other important global summits. The already delayed climate talks or COP26 to be held in Glasgow, (...)
United States: Right to vote under assault – On the voter suppression laws Voting rights are under attack in the United States. In 43 out of 50 states, legislation seeks to limit voting rights for Black and Brown citizens.
The Republican Party is leading the attack, following on from former President Donald Trump’s big lie that last year’s presidential election was (...)Philipppines: Worse than Before: A Year of Negligence and Ineptitude A year ago, the whole of Luzon was placed in one of the longest and most brutal lockdowns in the world to contain a fast-spreading deadly virus with the rest of the country following later. A year has passed, yet Filipinos continue to struggle against the hardships brought about by the COVID-19 (...)
Why are Sri Lanka’s Free Trade Zone Unions unable to fight for better working conditions? In October, a series of FTZ (Free Trade Zone) workers who manufacture clothes for international markets such as the US, tested positive for COVID-19 in Sri Lanka. FTZs are populated with women from rural areas who, undermined by poverty and limited opportunities, are ‘pushed’ rather than (...)
Globalisation’s history starting with Magellan’s circumnavigation 500 years ago Globalisation’s history, starting with Magellan’s circumnavigation 500 years ago, is not only of connection and trade, but also of intolerance, exploitation, slavery, violence, aggression, genocide.
Globalisation’s beginnings are symbolised by Ferdinand Magellan’s near circumnavigation of the (...)Socialist Party of Malaysia demand PETRONAS to withdraw its investment in Myanmar Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) strongly urge the PETRONAS to stop funding the murderous military regime in Myanmar by completely withdrawing its investment in Myanmar.
Refugees from Karen state at the riverbank. (File photo, taken by a villager at Salween river)
PETRONAS has announced recently (...)Women of Myanmar Call Immediate Global Action to End Military Rule – Call on the international community The Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law, and Development (APWLD) and the Women’s League of Burma (WLB) held a press conference with Kachin, Karen and Shan women on Thursday (8 April) to call on the international community for a monitoring and intervention mission to Burma/Myanmar, a comprehensive (...)
India: Women’s Journey from One Jail to Another: In Conversation with Seema Azad Women end up in prison due to the traps of this patriarchal system that forces them to commit those crimes. They remain in prison because society and their families also considers them disposable
Q- Seema, tell us about your recently released book – Aurat ka Safar Jail se Jail Tak. Why the (...)The Fourth International held its 2021 International Committee online After having had to cancel the 2020 meeting due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the Fourth International successfully managed to organize it as an online meeting in 2021. The International Committee is the central political body of the FI, and over the last period has held its (...)
Why can’t Britain handle the truth about Winston Churchill? Nothing, it seems, can be allowed to tarnish the national myth – as I found when hosting a Cambridge debate about his murkier side
A baleful silence attends one of the most talked-about figures in British history. You may enthuse endlessly about Winston Churchill “single-handedly” defeating (...)(Post)pandemic struggles in social reproduction: Women’s labour before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Bulgaria The coronavirus pandemic brought pressure on working people all over the world, and especially the more vulnerable – people with disabilities, mothers of young children, low-wage and cash-in-hand workers. Women, too, belong to this more vulnerable category. Female workers and public servants had (...)
KIA Ambushes Myanmar Military Convoy in Kachin State The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) attacked a military convoy in Mogaung Township, Kachin State, on Thursday evening.
The Kachin armed group said the attack was targeting reinforcements in the township.
KIA information officer Naw Bu told The Irrawaddy that the group used mines against two (...)Myanmar: Despite public fury, businesses split over response to regime While boycotts targeting regime-compliant businesses gain momentum, some Myanmar tycoons and foreign investors are reluctant to burn bridges with the military.
Tycoons and business groups regarded as siding with the military government or keeping silent about its abuses have been facing the (...)Myanmar – ‘I will never forgive’: How one Yangon township defied dictatorship For two weeks, security forces waged a bloody war on South Dagon Township, where martial law and an uneasy standstill prevails. Frontier spoke to residents who have risked everything to resist military rule.
When the shooting began, Ma Lin Lin Myat turned off the lights and lay atop her (...)1995-2021: The Rise and Fall of Multilateralism I still remember attending the first ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in December 1996, a year after its founding. I did not know why known opponents of globalization like me had been invited; I suppose it was to inflict on us the lesson that it was futile to resist. An (...)
Chinese Troops Gather on Myanmar’s Border to ‘Protect Pipelines’ Chinese Troops Gather on Myanmar’s Border to ‘Protect Pipelines’
Several sources on the Chinese border reported that troops were gathering in Jiegao, opposite the Shan State border town of Muse.
Many Chinese soldiers and military trucks have arrived at the border in previous days.
Sources from (...)South Africa: Anti-Apartheid International Solidarity: Lessons for Renewing Internationalism Today The anti-apartheid international solidarity was forged on the global terrain of the capitalist world system that was shaped by the conditions, social and political forces that emerged in the (post-World War II) postwar period, up to 1994. Let’s try and reread this history, with the benefit of (...)
Sri Lanka: Why union-busting must go out of fashion at Next Update: On 30 March 2021, Next replied to War on Want and Labour Behind the Label by letter, stating that Next will recognise the rights of the FTZ & GSEU union as representative of its workers in the NML [Next Management Limited] Katunayake Plant in Sri Lanka – and that Next will begin (...)
HDP: Turkey Bans Largest Left-Wing Party Phil Hearse and Sarah Parker report on the Turkish State’s latest anti-democratic action.
Turkey’s leading left-wing formation, the Kurdish-led People’s Democratic Party (HDP), the third-largest party in parliament, was shut down on March 17 by the Turkish Constitutional Court, doubtless under (...)
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