On Wednesday, 24 February, 21 unions of the South African Federation of Trade Unions went on a general strike against deep and sustained cuts in the living standards of workers, and to fight for a radical change in the country’s economic policies. Frustration runs high amongst the working class over Read more…
Originally posted by our comrades in Socialist Revolution, the US section of the International Marxist Tendency. Follow socialistrevolution.org for more US news. Last week, a devastating winter storm hammered Texas and wreaked havoc on 90% of the state’s energy infrastructure. The crisis caused a loss of heat, unreliable water Read more…
In British schools the systematic exploitation and oppression of the Irish people over eight centuries is ignored. Ireland has been subject to conquest and reconquest by its English neighbour since Norman times. The rise of capitalism in England gave these conquests a savage character. It was the English Revolution of Read more…
Here, we re-share an article from our sister organisation in Pakistan, reporting on the wave of student protests which have erupted over unsafe exam conditions. We send our solidarity to our comrades and draw inspiration from their heroic actions.
Nick MacWilliam “Santiago Rising takes place on the streets of Chile’s capital city in late 2019, as large public protests over economic inequality engulf the country. The film charts the build-up to the historic vote, in October 2020, that saw Chileans vote for a new people’s constitution to replace the one Read more…
Some on the left would have you believe that the prospect of fascism is looming over the US. But is this realistic, or just a ploy to shore up support for the Democratic establishment? Only a Marxist understanding of events – based on the state of the class struggle – can provide the answer.
We ask worker and student activists and organisations around the world to show their solidarity with the struggle in Haiti by sharing this statement, taking pictures and making statements of their own on social media using the hashtags #SolidaritéAvecLaLutteEnHaïti and #ABasLeRégimeMoïse. To add the name of your organisation to Read more…
The MSF Revolution series is an online meeting that discusses different revolutions every Thursday at 6pm. Our last meeting was on the Cuban Revolution – the video for it can be found here. Yesterday, we held a meeting on the Haitian Revolution. Eoin Breathnach from Leeds Marxist Society led the Read more…
Image:Felton Davis, Pixabay With the whole world’s attention turned towards the coronavirus crisis, the western-backed Saudi war on Yemen has continued unabated. The war machine and arms industry, fueling this savagery, have been deemed too essential to shut down during the pandemic. It is true that last Thursday, Saudi Arabia declared a unilateral Read more…
The MSF Revolution series is an online meeting that discusses different revolutions every Thursday at 6pm. Our first meeting was on the Russian Revolution – the video for it can be found here. This week’s meeting was on the Cuban revolution of 1959. Cuba saw the first socialist revolution Read more…
In October 2019, the Brazilian section of the IMT organised a public campaign “In Defence of the life of Professor Mara”, demanding the compulsory transfer from the State Technical School of Franco da Rocha (Metropolitan Region of São Paulo) of neo-Nazi students who threatened a teacher’s life, plotting her murder Read more…
Students at NUI Galway, University College Dublin, NUI Cork and elsewhere have been involved in occupations of their universities in response to spiralling rents. The conditions being faced by students in Ireland will be immediately familiar to students in Britain. STATEMENTFollowing the decision of NUI Galway to implement a Read more…
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