Working out how to avoid abandoning revolutionary politics for reformism, without alienating workers and students influenced by the new left parties, is a real challenge.
What is certain is that this phenomenon can’t be ignored.
Our side needs to rise to the challenge. This serious situation demands both concerted mass resistance and the building of a revolutionary socialist movement that is determined to take the struggle against capitalism all the way.
Brazil’s election shows that the far-right’s seemingly unstoppable rise to power can be halted. What stopped it was not the capitulatory reformism of leaders like Lula. It was the power of ordinary people, mobilising and organising in the streets, universities and workplaces.
In the lead-up to Israel’s 27 October election, media headlines declared this would be the most “consequential” in Israel’s history. At stake is the fate of Benjamin Netanyahu who faces corruption charges at home and an international arrest warrant for war crimes in Gaza.
“We’re not asking for much, just the fall of the regime.”
This is one of the slogans being raised in the wave of mass protests currently rocking Syria, in
Michael Karadjis, who has written extensively about the Syrian civil war, responds to a recent article by veteran Middle East correspondent Patrick Cockburn in the London Review of Books. The
