Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, par SHEPPARD Barry
At their recent meeting, Biden and Putin agreed to set up discussions about controlling nuclear weapons.
Before looking at decisions the U.S. took in recent years that have increased the danger of nuclear war, it is useful to recall how the nuclear age began.
It was the U.S. that developed (…)
, by GLEESON Jules Joanne, O’CATHAIL Brian, O’ROURKE Elle
In May 2021, Pluto Press published Transgender Marxism, an important attempt to bring together Marxist writings by trans people about trans issues or from trans perspectives. The book’s editors Jules Joanne Gleeson and Elle O’Rourke answered some questions about the book and their political (…)
, by RIDDELL John
The Comintern’s youth wing, sometimes referred to by its Russian acronym, KIM, was the direct continuation of the International Union of Socialist Youth Organization founded in 1907 under the aegis of the Second International.
When the outbreak of war in 1914 shattered the world socialist (…)
, by RIDDELL John
From its inception, the modern socialist movement upheld the social equality of women and opposed the pervasive discrimination to which they were subjected. The socialist movement itself, however, was overwhelmingly masculine in composition, and its members were far from immune to male (…)
, by BARZMAN John
Review of Livio Maitan, Memoirs of a critical communist. Towards a History of the Fourth International, Preface by Daniel Bensaid, translated by Gregor Benton, edited and with an introduction by Penelope Duggan, Resistance Books, IIRE, Merlin Press, 2019, 455 pages.
Livio Maitan was born in (…)
, by Left parties and movements
Statement of the Southeast Asian Left for May Day 2021.
This joint statement is initiated by the Southeast Asian Left, and endorsed by organisations from within and outside Southeast Asia region.
After more than a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, working people around the world have been (…)
, by SINGH Pritam
Born in 1993, La Via Campesina has been developing and promoting the vision of food sovereignty as an alternative to the dominant capitalist relations of production, particularly in agriculture.
Every year, on April 17, La Via Campesina (“the peasant way”), an international organisation (…)
, by KINSMAN Gary
It has taken me some time to realize how relevant the AIDS activist slogan and perspective SILENCE=DEATH, ACTION =LIFE is to the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic. I have reflected in previous writings on the differences and similarities between the AIDS crisis (which continues) and the (…)
, by RIDDELL John
By John Riddell: Clustered around the early Communist International’s world congresses were gatherings of an array of related organizations, ranging from the massive Red International of Trade Unions (RILU) to a small gathering of Proletarian Culture (Proletkult) enthusiasts.
These auxiliary (…)
, by RIDDELL John
By John Riddell: “In the 1920s, the Red International of Labour Unions was by far the most powerful and important of the auxiliary organizations related to the Comintern,” according to its historian, Reiner Tosstorff.[1] E.H. Carr goes further, suggesting that the Red International “sometimes (…)
, by RIDDELL John
The International Workers’ Aid (IWA), also known by its Russian acronym MRP, was launched as an emergency campaign to help alleviate a widespread famine in Soviet Russia. Founded in Berlin on September 12, it grew into a global movement seeking not only to assist economic construction in the (…)
, by Fourth International
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 (…)
, by MASHEVA Ivelina
“Fellow women workers and peasants, wake up and finally start acting”
From “Manifesto to working women around the world”, 10 July 1921
A hundred years ago, in 1921, the Second [Third] International Communist Women’s Congress was held in Moscow. Its “Мanifesto to working women around the (…)
, by PASHKOFF Susan
The purpose of this piece to highlight the first wave of feminism and to provide some historical context to the creation of International Working Women’s Day in the the period of the first and second decades of the 20th century. While International Women’s Day is still celebrated around the (…)
, by SASIPORNKARN Emmy
An online solidarity movement is bringing together democracy activists throughout Asia for a fight against authoritarianism. But how much difference can a popular hashtag actually make?
The Milk Tea Alliance is nurturing transnational solidarity with protests such as this one in Yangon, (…)
, by Aung Zaw
More than a month ago the military junta seized power in Myanmar and now blood is flowing in the streets. However, it is inspiring to see the youth and Generation Z out on the streets opposing the coup. The sudden but robust nationwide uprising is gaining momentum in spite of the crackdown (…)
, by Fourth International
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1. Disasters, of which extreme weather events linked to climate change are the main cause, have doubled in 20 years, killing more than 1.2 million people worldwide since 2000. Record summer temperatures in the Northern and the Southern Hemisphere (…)
, by Fourth International
“In order to change the conditions of life we must learn to see them through the eyes of women.”
Leon Trotsky, “Against Bureaucracy, Progressive and Unprogressive” (6 August 1923), in Problems of Everyday Life and Other Writings on Culture and Society, Monad Press, New York, 1973, p. 65. (…)
, by BEAUDET Pierre
Report of an international meeting organized by several international networks on the occasion of the World Social Forum
Introduction
Last January, the World Social Forum organized a virtual forum, in the tradition of events organized since 2001. On this occasion, Dialogue Global, along (…)
, by LEPLAT Fred
Fred Leplat explores the international response to the pandemic.
At the end of January Britain passed the gruesome official milestone of over 100,000 deaths, and possibly 120,000 . Most governments across Europe have been following a similar strategy to that in Britain. Initially hoping for the best, that “herd (...)
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