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Winter Fuel Allowance: ecosocialism versus ageism, austerity and poverty

1 month 1 week ago

On 10 September 2024 348 MPs (overwhelmingly Labour MPs) voted through regulations to cut the winter fuel allowance for all pensioners except those in receipt of means-tested benefits such as pension credit. In this article Liz Lawrence explores what this suggests for the direction of the Labour government and what remains of the Labour Left. She also discusses pensioners' poverty and resistance and how ecosocialists respond.

- IV596-September 2024 / Britain
Liz Lawrence

The Summer ‘Uni', a barricade against the political right and social demobilisation

1 month 1 week ago

The last days of August saw the 14th edition of the Summer University of Anticapitalistas with the slogan ‘A new internationalism in the face of war and climate barbarism' with the just over 750 people attending. This year there was a significant increase in the number of young people as a result of the work to establish the student movement, the role played in promoting solidarity with Palestine and the intervention around the queer question.

- News from around the world / Spanish state, Fourth International
Manuel Garí

Workers Strike Boeing, Stopping Production of the 737

1 month 2 weeks ago

In an angry, determined, yet festive action, with music blaring, airhorns blasting, and fireworks shooting into the sky, 33,000 Boeing workers walked out on strike at plants in Washington, Oregon, and California on September 13, stopping production of the Boeing 737 plane and other aircraft. The Boeing strike by the International Association of Machinists (IAM), the biggest strike of this year so far, is principally over wages and pensions.

- IV596-September 2024 / United States (USA), Trade unions/workplace organizing
Dan La Botz

The Algerian people reiterate their rejection of military rule

1 month 2 weeks ago

Despite the confusion that accompanied the announcement of the recent presidential elections' results in Algeria, one thing is clear and certain: the Algerian people overwhelmingly reject military rule, after having devoted their Hirak [movement] five years ago to demanding an end to this rule and its replacement with a democratic civilian authority. Indeed, the confusion itself is a direct result of this fact, which emerged through what were the real stakes in these elections, as no one could have the slightest doubt about the victory of the military establishment's candidate, Abdelmadjid Tebboune.

- IV596-September 2024 / Algeria
Gilbert Achcar

Inside the Hell of Israeli Prisons

1 month 2 weeks ago

The Israeli NGO Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHRI) was founded during the first Intifada by a group of Palestinian and Jewish doctors. The PHRI Prisoners and Detainees Department deals with all prisoners who are under the control of different Israeli forces. In this interview, Oneg Ben Dror recounts his observations in this hell.

- IV596-September 2024 / Palestine, Israel
Caterina Bandini, Oneg Ben Dror

Israel's Genocidal Campaign: The Struggle Continues

1 month 2 weeks ago

The assassination of Ismael Haniyeh only confirms that Israel has no interest in ending its genocidal and terrorist campaign on Gazans in particular, and Palestinians more generally. Over 500 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank (WB) as illegal settlers, backed by the Israeli army and police have extended their capture of more territory. It should be crystal clear by now that Israel's murderous assault on Gaza is not any ‘unbalanced' or ‘disproportionate' reaction to the 2023 October 7 Hamas attack, that liberal and right-wing apologists for Zionist Israel, whether Western or Indian, have tried to make out. That Hamas action has served as the much-awaited excuse for Tel Aviv to carry out its own longstanding ambitions to establish an unchallengeable, but quietly accepted, status as the world's only remaining settler-colonial apartheid state.

- IV596-September 2024 / Palestine, India, Israel
Achin Vanaik

Lessons of the presidential election in Iran

1 month 2 weeks ago

Iran's recent presidential election was called earlier than expected following the death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash on May 19. It seems that the clique of Supreme Guide Khamenei, the dominant faction within the regime, seized this opportunity to make a tactical shift: to present a more acceptable face to Western countries in the hope of ending their heavy sanctions.

- IV596-September 2024 / Iran
Houshang Sepehr

Germany: A new polarisation is needed

1 month 2 weeks ago

The results of the regional elections in the German states of Saxony and Thuringia on 1 September 2024 indicate a rise in support for the far right which is as overwhelming as in many other countries. What a terrible feeling it is to have to hope that in both Länder a government led by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) can somehow be assembled to confront the far right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)!

- IV596-September 2024 / Germany
Manuel Kellner

Marx's anti-colonialism, new sub-imperialisms and consistent internationalism in a bipolar world

1 month 3 weeks ago

Kevin B Anderson is a Marxist humanist and Professor of Sociology, Political Science and Feminist studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author and editor of various works, including the forthcoming book The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism and A Political Sociology of Twenty-First Century Revolutions and Resistances: From the Arab World and Iran to Ukraine, Africa, and France (2024). In this interview with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Anderson discusses Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin's writings on colonialism and imperialism, why the world is becoming more bipolar (rather than multipolar), and the need for a positive and consistent anti-imperialism.

- Features / Marxism, Imperialism
Federico Fuentes, Kevin B Anderson

Surrealism as a revolutionary movement

1 month 3 weeks ago

Surrealism is not, and has never been, a literary school or an "avant-garde" artistic movement (like Cubism or Fauvism), but a vision of the world, a way of life, and an eminently subversive attempt to re-enchant the world. It is also a utopian and revolutionary aspiration to "transform the world" (Marx) and "change life" (Rimbaud): two identical slogans, according to André Breton. It is an adventure that is at once poetic and political, magical and playful. It began in Paris a hundred years ago, in 1924. It continues today.

- Features / Features
Michael Löwy

US Presidential Election

1 month 3 weeks ago

The US presidential election has been upended this summer by a series of dramatic events that reversed the electoral fortunes of the Democratic and Republican parties while left-wing third-party candidates such as Green Party USA Ecosocialist candidate Jill Stein and radical intellectual Cornell West fight for ballot access in many states.

- IV596-September 2024 / United States (USA)
Kay Mann
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