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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Bad ideas: why is the left so keen to champion every idea that avoids confrontation with capitalism?
The class struggle is a zero-sum game, argues ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Workers sent home by the pandemic have been reluctant to return to work, from fear of infection or a sophisticated understanding of the gains possible from the withholding of labour — the result is capital offering bonuses, benefits, higher wages and a more assertive workforce
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.
HISTORY is a corrective of ideas, serving as a reality check on intellectual inflation. Sometimes it takes years, decades, even centuries for big and even not so big ideas to be properly deflated.
I remember fondly many heated arguments with the late Fred Gaboury, a former union logger from the north-west United States, who became an organiser for Trade Unionists for Action and Democracy, editor of Labour Today and World Federation Trade Union representative to the United Nations. Fred was a serious thinker in ways that many of his contemporaries missed.
When the eurozone — the European monetary union — was about to be established, I argued that between nationalism and uneven European development, a common currency was not sustainable. Posthumously, I conceded to Fred. But, today, there is plenty more reason to doubt the eurozone’s future sustainability. History has yet to speak definitively.
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