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.
The Democratic Party is expected to win back control of the US House of Representatives and possibly even the Senate in Tuesday’s midterm elections. But just how much difference will that make?
China is home to 700 million workers. Those who hate capitalism must be able to look them in the face and call them—without caveat, hesitation or hypocrisy—our siblings in chains, our comrades in struggle, our world’s grandest hope for a new beginning.
Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History by US writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Benjamin Moser is a useful contribution to uncover the history of opposition to Zionism within modern Judaism.
The metaphor of a tinderbox is one of the most overused in politics. But how else could you describe the situation in Europe today, where every small spark of resistance seems to be catching and turning into a powerful blaze?
Since Donald Trump’s arrival on the scene more than a decade ago, lying in politics has become ever more shameless. It’s the “post-truth politics” era, apparently.
