The industrial workers of India, so often written off by academics and paternalistic union bureaucrats alike, are once more proving themselves to be a fighting force.
Three months in, the numbers emerging from the latest war waged by Israel and the US are harrowing. More than 1,600 civilians have been killed in Iran since 28 February, and 3.2 million people are internally displaced.
Roughly 40 boats have set sail from Barcelona to participate in the flotilla to Gaza. Neve O’Connor, a Melbourne student and support worker, spoke to Red Flag from on board one of the vessels.
The oil shock caused by the US and Israel’s war on Iran has provided another depressing reminder of the continuing failure of the global “green transition”.
The crew of Artemis II will not land on the Moon. But the launch has fired the starter’s gun for a scramble that will play out over the next decades as the US and China compete to be master of the universe.
Those who support Palestine should reject the Israel-centric view of the world that far-right pundits are pushing. It feeds the antisemitism of the right and blunts criticism of US imperialism.
Imperialist nations have always been divided into classes, pitting workers and their capitalist rulers into an antagonistic relationship: one class can gain only at the other’s expense.
