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Mass defiance shakes the Thai regime

Liam Ward

After protesters waged an extraordinary week of mass defiance across the country, the Thai government on 22 October lifted a state of emergency that had banned all gatherings of five or more people.

Stalinism versus revolution: Hungary 1956

Defiant campaign wins concessions on right to protest in NSW

New Zealand's election dismays the right and challenges the left

Bernie Sanders and the left: what happened?

Is this the most important election ever?

Introduction to Marxism Discussion Groups

The COVID-19 Crisis

The 'Unlock Hospitality' campaign is cooked

Chris di Pasquale

Someone needs to order Victoria’s bosses a round of babycinos: these guys never stop whinging.

Australia

Students have to resist attacks on universities. But how?

Anneke Demanuele

In early October, the Liberal government pushed through their “job-ready graduates package”.

Debate, comment and reviews

Socialists and Biden: an exchange

Omar Hassan, Dan La Botz, Stephen R. Shalom

A recent Red Flag article, "Socialists should not vote for Joe Biden", referred to arguments by US socialists Dan La Botz and Stephen Shalom. Here, they respond to that article, alongside a further response from the article's author Omar Hassan.

Gender and sexuality

Larry Kramer and the legacy of ACT-UP

Chris di Pasquale

“Almost more than talent you need tenacity, and an infinite capacity for rejection if you are to succeed.” Larry Kramer gave this advice to aspiring writers in the introduction to his 1992 play The Des

History

The revolutionary struggle against slavery

Darren Roso

French historian Pierre de Vaissière’s description of a slave ship working the Atlantic trade in Saint-Domingue: Creole society and life under the Ancièn Regime, 1629-1789 cannot be forgotten: th

Introduction to socialism

Should socialists centre the working class?

Omar Hassan

The impressive resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in the US is shining a spotlight on the depravity of this system. Protesters are grasping that something radical needs to be done to deal with systematic racism in the “land of the free”.

Marxist theory

Marx’s Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

Sandra Bloodworth

Karl Marx’s pamphlet The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, written in 1852, is a masterpiece of journalism with an enduring relevance that

Oppression and liberation

The revolutionary struggle against slavery

Darren Roso

French historian Pierre de Vaissière’s description of a slave ship working the Atlantic trade in Saint-Domingue: Creole society and life under the Ancièn Regime, 1629-1789 cannot be forgotten: th

Racism

Murder, McCarthyism and Islamophobia in France

John Mullen

Samuel Paty, a 47-year-old teacher, was brutally murdered outside his Paris school on 16 October after showing caricatures of the prophet Mohammed to his pupils. In the days since, the French government and other Islamophobic organisations have exploited the event to launch a wave of political attacks against Muslims and Muslim organisations. The Left Berlin, a progressive journalism project, spoke to Paris activist John Mullen about the situation.

Revolts and uprisings

The Iranian state kills workers to save itself

Simone White

Several overlapping crises confront Iran. A third wave of COVID-19 has begun in what is already the worst-affected country in the Middle East.