Sovereignty and the rule of law are under threat from Trump’s attacks on Lula’s administration just as they have been across Latin America, argue CARLOS MARTINEZ and SARA VIVACQUA
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Socialism, democracy and the division of labour
Stereotyped ideas about the 20th century’s actually existing socialism do a disservice to the working class and fail to grasp the complexities facing every revolutionary generation, argues ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
FLAGS OUT: The hammer and sickle flag of the Soviet Union is hung over the entrance to Claridge’s, London. Russian leaders Marshal Nikolai Bulganin, chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, and Nikita Krushchev, first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, were residing at the hotel at the start of their 10-day visit
to Britain, April 1956
Glasgow will remember the martyrs of the 1787 strike this weekend in speech and song, their spirit is sorely needed today, writes JIM LISTER
ALEX BROWN explains how medieval Europe was plunged into sunless years, with widespread crop failures and devastating famines
Police crackdowns on Israeli peace demonstrators combined with court rulings and settler organisations are designed to strip Palestinian families of their homes and land. The Israeli state has tried to silence both Israelis and Palestinians who resist, according to Zo HaDerekh (This Is The Way) the Communist Party of Israel’s Hebrew-language weekly
Remembering a legendary trade unionist and inspirational leader
Communists in Australia, Britain and the US outlined a joint state agreement against their governments’ militarist provocations.
PROFESSOR Richard Wolff is a prominent, influential intellectual, with a big following on the left. He is an erudite, clear and passionate speaker and writer. He is well-regarded for his exposition of Marx’s ideas — a “go to” when the media tolerates a conversation critical of capitalism, one even advocating “socialism.”
For all of that, he does not represent Marx’s thought well, nor does he offer a viable, serious alternative to capitalism.
It is not a question of Wolff’s scholarship or his commitment to justice. It is, instead, a deep-seated, unwavering hostility to the real existing socialism of the 20th century and the century’s leading Marxist exponents, the communists.
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