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‘We’re witnessing a fundamental political realignment’: Mike Davis on the crisis in the United States

Ben Hillier

In the wake of the deadly riot in Washington, DC, and with the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden just days away, Ben Hillier spoke to Mike Davis, author of Prisoners of the American Dream and Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx’s Lost Theory, about the crises and transformations of US politics.

What should socialists say about China?

2020 in hindsight, and a perspective for 2021

The fascist farce on Washington

A victory for the movement in the streets: inside Argentina’s abortion win

Detainees have set fire to the Christmas Island Detention Centre. They deserve our full support.

Introduction to Marxism Discussion Groups

The COVID-19 Crisis

NSW’s COVID-19 response is a disaster

Hersha Kadkol

The Berejiklian government’s response to the Sydney COVID-19 outbreak has been a total disaster, with cases emerging across the city after weeks of inaction.

Australia

'Extremism' in the centre

Allen Myers

Americans are being told that the riot in the national Capitol building promoted by Donald Trump was the work of “extremists”.

Debate, comment and reviews

Steve McQueen’s Small Axe: exposing racism, celebrating resistance

Kerri Parke

If you are the big tree, we are the small axe, sharpened to cut you down, ready to cut you down. – Bob Marley

Gender and sexuality

How equal pay was won in the insurance industry

Emma Norton

In the 1970s, insurance clerks won equal pay for women by taking militant strike action. To do it, they had to confront conservative a biased arbitration system, timid union officials, and the sexism that pervaded society.

History

How Stalinism saved the US Democrats

Emma Norton

Why do so many American socialists think it's important to back the Democrats? In part, you can thank Stalin.

Introduction to socialism

Stalinism versus revolution: Hungary 1956

Jasmine Duff

In the middle of the 1950s, many thought the world had only two political options: Western-style capitalism, or Stalinist bureaucratic "communism". When the working class of Hungary launched a workers' revolution against the Stalinist dictatorship, they proved both sides wrong.

Marxist theory

Are you a Trotskyist?

Luca Tavan

If there’s one thing hardcore Stalinists and Cold War anti-communists can agree on, it’s that Trotskyists are the enemy.

Oppression and liberation

'This is war': fighting for abortion rights in Poland

Jasmine Duff

A mass movement in Poland has succeeded in delaying the implementation of a court decision that would ban nearly every abortion.

Racism

Djab Wurrung: fighting to save sacred trees

Kim Bullimore

On the same day Victorians were celebrating Premier Daniel Andrews’ announcement of the easing of the 112-day COVID-19 lockdown, the state government oversaw the felling of a 350-year-old tree sacred to the Djab Wurrung people in central Vic

Revolts and uprisings

The tragedy of Poland’s ‘self-limiting revolution’

Duncan Hart

A little over 40 years ago, from August 1980 until December 1981, the Stalinist regimes of the Eastern Bloc were challenged by an insurgent working-class struggle in Poland.