WIN Youtube October 2022 (3) FIGHTING THE RIGHT TURN IN SWEDEN - A WIN Youtube discussion. October 2022 - YouTube Along with the disturbing successes of far-right parties across the world, most recently in Italy, perhaps the most shocking was the victory at Sweden’s recent general election of a coalition including the openly racist party the Sweden Democrats, which … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2022
THE REAWAKENING OF THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS
THE REAWAKENING OF THE AMERICAN WORKING CLASS - YouTube WIN Discussion September 2022, focusing on the resurgence of working-class militancy in the USA. Listen to on the spot reports from veteran trade union activists Jack Gerson (Teachers' Union) and Richard Mellor, editor of the famous blog Facts For Working People. Last June we discussed the growing crisis in US society: … [Read more...]
BUILDING THE INTERNATIONAL – Part 2: The Socialist International – September 2022
BUILDING THE INTERNATIONAL - Part 2: The Socialist International - September 2022 - YouTube This week's meeting was introduced by Ed Bober. As part of our occasional series on the history of the workers’ internationals, this week we focused on the Socialist International (also known as the Second International). On the day of the first worldwide general strike on May Day 1890, Engels … [Read more...]
Reformist Strategy Leads to Defeat of Chile’s New Constitution
by Awais Qarni, first published in Asian Marxist Review, 15 September 2022 “The outcome is an indictment on the reformist strategy of relying on elections and institutional pathways to make change. Some forces have already been quick to blame the Chilean people for the defeat, but the left needs to reckon with the failure of the reformist strategy to deal with the crises of neoliberalism. The … [Read more...]
IRELAND: A NEW OPPORTUNITY?
IRELAND: A NEW OPPORTUNITY? - YouTube Crushed for centuries as Britain's oldest colony, with a section of its territory still partially occupied, Ireland today is undergoing a rapid transformation. In the Irish republic, power is slipping away from the previously dominant Catholic hierarchy and the traditional rival capitalist parties, with support for Sinn Fein, previously the … [Read more...]
The Twilight of the Monarchy
by Roger Silverman The royal family are often dismissed as a pantomime sideshow. This is a mistake; the role of the monarchy is crucial. Prime ministers are appointed and subject to arbitrary dismissal by the monarch – as seen for instance in the peremptory dismissal of Australia’s mildly left-reformist prime minister Gough Whitlam in 1973. The British prime minister is obliged to report once … [Read more...]
Pakistan: Interview with Awais Qarni, Revolutionary Flood Relief and Protest Campaign Organizer
Pakistan is experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe. A third of the country has suffered the ravages of a storm that does not stop and new floods are feared. Millions of people have been affected. The origins of this disaster are classist, they strike the poor, above all. The revolutionary organization The Struggle is carrying out a bold campaign of material aid and popular self-organization … [Read more...]
A Turning Point
The death of a monarch who had reigned for 70 years, and the early defenestration of a prime minister less than three years after winning a landslide election victory, both mark a significant turning point in British history. The following extract from a recent editorial in our journal ON THE BRINK (published by the Workers' International Network) is relevant... * * * * What we are witnessing … [Read more...]
The Darkening Economic Outlook
A WIN meeting with Michael Roberts - September 2022 102) THE DARKENING ECONOMIC OUTLOOK - with Michael Roberts - YouTube Having been hit in rapid succession by the first pandemic since 1918, the deepest slump since the 1930s, the closest threat of world war since 1945, and the worst nuclear risk since 1962 – to say nothing of the growing environmental catastrophe – we are now faced with … [Read more...]
Towards the Brown International of the European and global far right?
By Yorgos Mitralias Not since the end of the last world war has the threat of a reinvigorated, aggressive and almost universally rising far right been felt as much as today. Why is this so? Because, contrary to what happened during the last 6-7 decades, this threat no longer comes from a few small groups or even small parties of nostalgic people from the interwar period, but from a new, … [Read more...]