ADULTS IN THE ROOM: My Battle with Europe's Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufakis A review by Roger Silverman In the last few years, Greece has witnessed the most dramatic conceivable eruptions of popular outrage; an assertion of human solidarity stretching across the entire mass of the oppressed and deprived. For months on end, tens of thousands occupied Athens' Syntagma Square and city … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2019
The Gilet Jaunes Movement
The weekend of 13th/14th April marked the 22nd weekly “act” of the Gilet Jaunes protest. Over the whole of France, there were 110,000 protesters (by the estimates of the police and organisers) or 30,000 (according to the government), gathered at roundabouts, blocking traffic, marching in the streets of Paris and provincial towns. The movement began last November to protest against a tax on … [Read more...]
Analysis of Struggles in South Africa
This is the second Episode of the Socialist Dialogue Podcast Channel. This week we here from activists in the South African labour and trade union movement who provide an analysis of current politics and struggle in the movement. … [Read more...]
THE TWO FACES OF INDIA
As the shadow of ruthless authoritarian regimes falls across the world’s continents from Europe to America North and South to Asia, the world’s capitalists have greeted with undisguised jubilation the victory of Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party in India’s recent general election, winning 303 of the Lok Sabha’s (lower house) 543 seats, as against their main rivals’ Congress … [Read more...]
LABOUR AND BREXIT
We are living in stormy times. As the relatively stable world order of the last few decades passes away, sudden shocks and sharp swings to right and left rock one country after another. No more dramatic example can be found than Britain, whose underlying fault line has manifested itself in the Brexit referendum victory. The aftershocks of the 2008 crash kick-started a turbulent period in … [Read more...]
Introducing the Socialist Dialogue Podcast Channel
Welcome to ON THE BRINK, the new journal of the Workers’ International Network (WIN), which links activists across several countries. Working people the world over are facing hard times and desperately searching for a way forward. Many have been marching, mobilising and striking. We need to link up in the struggle for a better world. Today eight multi-billionaires own as much wealth as … [Read more...]
ZIONISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM
The following is the transcript of a talk given to a meeting of Newham Momentum on 12th June 2018 A New Weapon Against the Left Anti-semitism is an age-old phenomenon, and once again it is in the air – but this time as a weapon of slander against the left, by the Tories, the billionaire media, the BBC, the Guardian, and above all the Blairite faction now dislodged from the Labour leadership but … [Read more...]
CHINA: THE DECISIVE ARENA OF GLOBAL REVOLUTION
The pre-eminent position of the USA as unrivalled global super-power is now threatened by the massive economic growth of China. All the strutting and fulminations of Trump have to be understood in this context. The US has gradually been losing its capacity to pressurise and bully smaller nations at the same time as it has been losing its dominant economic position. The conflict between the USA … [Read more...]
PAKISTAN: A CHALLENGE TO BIGOTRY
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Workers’ unity can’t be easily broken – as is shown in this report by a visitor to the congress of the socialist group Jeddo-Jihad (Struggle) on 3rd and 4th November.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Pakistan is plagued by communal bigotry, the monstrous legacy bequeathed by British imperialism. In the days … [Read more...]