A Workers' International Network Meeting - Sunday 15th May 2022 (1) PAKISTAN IN CRISIS A Workers’ International Network meeting - with Asif Rashid - Sunday 15th May - YouTube For a clear insight into these questions, we welcome from Islamabad the experienced political activist -Asif Rashid, trade union organiser, and regular contributor to the monthly Urdu Marxist magazine THE … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2022
IRAN: THE CRISIS DEEPENS
IRAN: THE CRISIS DEEPENS A Workers’ International Network meeting - Sunday 29th May 2022 - YouTube with Aman Kafa A unique insight into Iran’s growing social crisis - authentic news of the workers’ underground revolt from an Iranian socialist activist Under the burden of a sliding currency devaluation, soaring inflation and widespread corruption, some 60% of the … [Read more...]
What Was Stalinism?
by Roger Silverman (2003) Socialists today still find themselves under the dark shadow that Stalinism has cast over the history of the twentieth century. It is more than ten years since the collapse of the Stalinist regimes of Russia and Eastern Europe – overthrown in many cases by workers’ uprisings. These were hideous, corrupt, vicious regimes, and workers rightly celebrated their downfall as … [Read more...]
THE WORLD FOOD CRISIS
A Workers’ International Network meeting, Sunday 22nd May, 2022 (1) THE WORLD FOOD CRISIS A Workers’ International Network meeting - Sunday 22nd May - YouTube As human life is threatened by new pandemics, slump, war and environmental disaster, the latest report from UNICEF warns that 48% of the world’s children today are malnourished – the worst situation in history, … [Read more...]
Roger Silverman – Ukraine War – For socialist internationalism! Why workers should support neither side in this war.
Labour Left Alliance Public Zoom Meeting 19th May 2022 Roger Silverman on the war in the Ukraine - YouTube … [Read more...]
SRI LANKA IN CRISIS – WIN STATEMENT 15 MAY 2022
Repudiate Gota’s debts, for a workers and peasants government! The current crisis in Sri Lanka is a classic example of a revolutionary situation in its purest conceivable form. At such times a bold decisive approach is crucial. After decades of deepening turmoil – uprisings, general strikes, insurrections, communal riots, pogroms, ethnic bloodbaths, massacres, coups and a bloodthirsty civil … [Read more...]
PERSPECTIVES FOR FRANCE
A Workers’ International Network meeting 8th May 2022 (4) PERSPECTIVES FOR FRANCE A Workers’ International Network meeting 8th May 2022 - YouTube SPEAKERS - Olivier Delbeke a CGT trade unionist and member of the editorial board of Arguments Pour la Lutte Sociale (aplutsoc.org) - and - Sylvan Savier previously an international representative of Melenchon’s former Parti de Gauche, an … [Read more...]
The Imran Khan’s Ouster: From ‘New Pakistan’ to the Old One!
By Imran Kamyana Published in Asian Marxist Review May 1st 2022 The semi-fascist regime of the Pakistan Movement for Justice (PTI)—founded in 1996 by the Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan—came to a dramatic end in the early hours of April 10th after remaining in power for almost four years. Despite their imminent defeat in the no confidence motion presented by the … [Read more...]