July 6 @ 10:30 am - 12:30 pm PDT (7.30pm UK BST) FREE 12:30 PM CST/1:30 PM EST 7:30 PM SOUTH AFRICA/NAMIBIA/UK BST The destruction of workers in Southern African including in South Africa and Namibia is escalating. Workers are being forced into contract labor which was the type of labor under apartheid conditions. These panelists will report on the fight against union busting and also the … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2024
Now the election is over, where now for the left? Public meeting, Tuesday 9th July 2024 at 7pm
As predicted, Labour has been elected by default on a poor turnout, as almost half of the electorate stayed away from the polls, yet Jeremy Corbyn was soundly re-elected in Islington North! The need to create a united force based in the working class, to give people hope and the will to re-engage, is urgent: register and join our zoom call! Speakers include Steve Hedley, Ian Hodson and … [Read more...]
THE FRENCH ELECTION
BY JOHN MULLEN The victory of the Rassemblement national in the first round of elections in France is a severe setback, and it is not impossible that France will soon have its first fascist head of government since the Nazi occupation: Jordan Bardella. But the Left has also made real advances. This article outlines an anticapitalist perspective on the deep political crisis … [Read more...]
The Bolsheviks and Parliament
by ROGER SILVERMAN We revolutionaries are often misrepresented as enemies of democracy. Didn’t the Bolsheviks ban opposition parties, shut down the Constituent Assembly, impose war communism, create a one-party police state…? On the contrary. For instance, far from imposing a one-party state, the first Soviet government was not even a one-party government: it was a coalition with the left … [Read more...]
Iran: campaign to support victimised oil worker Yaser Ahmadinejad – from Internationalist Standpoint
Internationalist Standpoint is calling all it’s readers to send messages of protest and support regarding the case of Iranian oil worker Yaser Ahmadinejad, who has been targeted for a video he posted on social media. Yaser Ahmadinejad is an Arkan Saless Excavation Company worker. These workers have been on strike and Yaser was voicing his support for these just demands. He has been … [Read more...]