by Finn Geaney In an illustration of the global instability which characterises the current period in world politics, the government of Syria collapsed on December 8th 2023 after just eleven days of fighting. The ruling regime had been in power for over fifty years, first under Hafez al-Assad and then, over the last twenty-five years, under his son Bashar. The Assad dynasty was supported by … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2025
React before it’s too late
Against the Brown International of Putin-Trump-Musk-Netanyahu! by Yorgos Mitralias United but desperately alone! United in their slaughter, their bloodshed and their loneliness. And united, too, in the same relentless resistance for life, liberty and national self-determination. The martyred Palestinian and Ukrainian peoples united...against the same executioners united. Indeed, wasn't it … [Read more...]
THE MIDDLE EAST: SEEKING A WORKING CLASS SOLUTION
A WIN Discussion February 2025. See the meeting HERE. The entire Middle East is in flames. To take just a few illustrations of the region’s instability… · The Assad government in Syria – a dynasty which had been in power for six decades – collapsed on December 8th after just eleven days of fighting. · Casualties of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza … [Read more...]
From Campuses to Streets: The Struggle to Restore Student Unions
By Revolutionary Students Front – RSF (published in Asian Marxist Review) For over four decades, student unions have been banned in Pakistan, silencing a crucial platform for youth representation, activism, and democratic engagement. The ban, imposed during the military dictatorship of General Zia-ul-Haq in 1984, has been maintained by successive governments, restricting students from … [Read more...]
Ukraine endgame: from proxy war to imperialist carve-up
Vladimir Unkovski-Korica 15 February 2025 (Republished from Counterfire) There was never going to be justice for Ukraine, argues Vladimir Unkovski-Korica On Wednesday 12 February, Donald Trump announced he had spoken to Vladimir Putin and that peace talks to end the Ukraine War would start now. The announcement left the Ukrainian leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, and European states blindsided. … [Read more...]
THE RETURN OF DONALD TRUMP
by Roger Silverman Trump’s return to power marks the beginning of a new era. From his first day in office, he has broken with an eighty-year long consensus. He has released hundreds of far-right thugs from the Capitol riots; shut down entire government agencies; demanded the resignations of 2.3 million government employees (65,000 of whom have already accepted a derisory bribe of eight … [Read more...]
Together with Musk, Vance and MileiTrump the “peacemaker” like Hitler the “chancellor of peace”!
by Yorgos Mitralias Friedenskanzler, i.e. Chancellor of Peace. If we tell you that's what Hitler was called before he started the Second World War, you won't believe your ears. And yet it's true, because the image of a “pacifist” Hitler was cultivated not only by his acolytes, but also by those Europeans - and they were the majority - who liked to take his professions of faith in favor of … [Read more...]
THE USA: BUILDING WORKERS’ RESISTANCE
A WIN discussion February 2024. See the recording HERE. The new regime in the USA has lost no time in enforcing its brutal agenda. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are imposing steep tariffs, tearing up environmental regulations, terrorising immigrants, slashing federal programmes, threatening the jobs of millions of government employees, asserting the right of the USA to annexe whatever territories it … [Read more...]
IS THE WORLD ECONOMY ON THE BRINK?
A WIN meeting February 2025. See the recording HERE. This week we once again invited the leading Marxist economist Michael Roberts, publisher of the widely acclaimed blog The Next Recession, to speak to us on prospects for the world economy, including these vital questions… · Hundreds of billions of dollars are currently being invested in … [Read more...]
Auschwitz, the bankruptcy of the idea of progress and the rehabilitation of the utopian dimension of socialism
By Yorgos Mitralias Why republish a text on Auschwitz and its meaning, written in Greek in the last century? Because, reread today, at a time profoundly marked not only by the genocide of the Palestinians and the destruction of Gaza, but also by the return in force of the fascist threat - and war - on a global scale, embodied by the Trump-Musk duo, this text takes on a heightened significance … [Read more...]