Israel’s brutal war against Gaza has cost at least 40,000 Palestinian lives. Now, with the assassinations of senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut and Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, the situation could escalate into a regional war.
Recognising the Democratic Party as one of the chief pillars of a system that maintains exploitation and oppression in US society is the first step toward building a socialist alternative to it.
The power of Marx’s economic writing means that frequently, and sometimes deliberately, his political insights are overlooked. But Marx was, first and foremost, a revolutionary, an activist and a radical.
Fifty-three-year-old Tamil asylum seeker Uthayakaran Periyathamby died in his sleep on 16 July after more than ten years stuck in the torturous limbo of Australia's anti-refugee regime.