by Yorgos Mitralias Is Trump a fascist? Obviously, say half (49%) of Americans, many of his ex-collaborators, and the overwhelming majority of his opponents, experts in fascism, and the US and international media. In short, the same people who, only yesterday, found this question shocking or inappropriate, and branded as simplistic those who dared to answer in the affirmative. We … [Read more...]
Archives for October 2024
Sri Lanka’s ISB restructure – A debt trap backed by the IMF and Ceylon Chamber of Commerce
by Dhanusha Pathirana - Institute of Political Economy – Sri Lanka The apparent ‘Good News’ delivered by former President Ranil Wickremasinghe and Sri Lanka’s International Sovereign Bonds (ISB) holders in violation of the country’s election laws in September, is now been enshrined as the official position of the new Nation People’s Power (NPP) administration. The new President assumed power … [Read more...]
Political repression is ruining our lives – Support the movement to protect our freedom to protest!
For more than seven months, a retired head teacher, a dementia care advisor and a retired environmental health officer have been left waiting in limbo by the Metropolitan Police, desperately hoping to find out if they will face criminal charges instigated by an east London council following a town hall protest. In February 2024, the three socialist campaigners attended a fraught Newham council … [Read more...]
Politics in Scotland
A WIN discussion October 2024. Listen HERE. From the mid-2000s the Scottish Nationalist Party has dominated Scottish politics - it was able to negotiate a referendum on Scottish Independence in 2014 and sweep aside all other parties in the 2015 British General Election. Prior to that the Labour Party was the dominant force in Scottish politics from the 1960s onwards. Why was there a move to … [Read more...]
The student movement in Bangladesh: A torrent strong enough to make rivers shake!
By Omer Abdullah Khan (Asian Marxist Review) Like in other parts of the world, South Asia has also experienced significant social and political upheavals in recent years. This new wave of movements in the region began when Sri Lankan students and workers successfully ousted their corrupt and unpopular president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Since then, these movements have gradually spread across the … [Read more...]
Vladimir Putin: godfather and federator of the international far right!
By Yorgos Mitralias The subject of this article is not Putin the warmonger, nor Putin the invader of Ukraine. The subject of this article is Putin, the anti-democrat, the reactionary and the liberticide with increasingly fascist practices. So, after presenting the first pillar of the Brown International in gestation in the person of Israeli genocidaire Bibi Netanyahu, and awaiting the third … [Read more...]
GERMAN WORKERS FIGHT BACK!
A WIN Discussion October 2024. Listen to the meeting HERE. At this week’s WIN meeting we welcomed a well-known militant activist in Germany: Thorsten Donnermeier is chair of the divisional Volkswagen shop stewards’ council and a member of the union shop stewards’ committee for all Volkswagen factory locations in Kassel, representing more than 10,000 union members. Together with other grass-roots … [Read more...]
Hindutva Faces a Major Setback in the Jammu Kashmir Elections
By Farooq Sulehria and Haris Qadeer Despite its malicious strategy of communal gerrymandering to win the Legislative Assembly elections in Indian-administered Jammu Kashmir (JK), the right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was rejected by a thumping majority. Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI(M)) candidate Yusuf Tarigami retained his seat for a fifth time, defeating a … [Read more...]
The New Janus of Sri Lanka: Revolution at the Gate? by Maya John
The recent presidential election has installed Anura Kumara Dissanayake (“AKD”) from the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP)-led National People’s Power (NPP) alliance as the new president of Sri Lanka. This victory is seen as a result of rising popular hostility towards mainstream parties and rogue dynasts. Consequently, we find that AKD garnered an overwhelming share of the votes from those same … [Read more...]
Netanyahu: a pure-blooded fascist by origin, training and mentors…
by Yorgos Mitralias Why has Bibi Netanyahu become the darling and idol of racist, neo-fascist and neo-Nazi right-wing scum in Europe and around the world? The answer is not difficult: these scum recognize themselves in him because they consider, quite rightly, that Bibi Netanyahu is flesh of their flesh. And not just because of his warlike and other “exploits”, which have made Netanyahu's … [Read more...]