Article by Roger Silverman 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 … [Read more...]
Archives for December 2019
Look what’s happening in France
In France right now the executive power is terrified. They threw themselves into a campaign to quickly catch up with everything Thatcher’s Britain and Schroder’s Germany had done: to smash pension rights, employment rights, the right to study – it was like a train crashing headlong into a rock. They came up against a pillar of resistance, a counter attack by the masses which has come to be … [Read more...]
UK Election 2019
This election was a big defeat for the Labour Party. There will be much debate and questioning in its aftermath. The enemies of socialism will do their best to use the election result to try and destroy the socialist message. Did Labour promise too much? Britain is the sixth richest country in the world. The Attlee government could afford to introduce and fund the NHS directly … [Read more...]
IRAN AT THE CROSSROADS
Article by by Aman Kafa The threat of war against Iran by US imperialism has to some extent deflected attention from the growing movement of protest and struggle by workers against Iran’s theocratic regime. Here is an exclusive report by worker activist Aman Kafa, a member of UNISON and of Iran’s Hekmatist Party (official line). Over the past two years, the situation in Iran has … [Read more...]