A WIN discussion December 2024. Follow it on Youtube HERE. The recent general election in Ireland has marked a setback for the left. The two traditional parties of the ruling class have between them come close to an overall majority and are likely to continue to rule as a reactionary coalition. The Greens have been all but wiped out; Sinn Fein has lost momentum in terms of its voting percentage; … [Read more...]
The fascist threat is becoming clearer as Milei calls for the creation of the Brown International!
by Yorgos Mitralias “It is our moral duty to defend the legacy of our western civilisation. The West is in danger...We must stand together, establishing channels of cooperation throughout the world. We could call ourselves a right-wing international, a network of mutual assistance made up of all those interested in spreading the ideas of freedom around the world". This call for the … [Read more...]
Facts for Working People Blog – Gaza
FROM Richard Mellor, Afscme Local 444, HEO/GED retired, USA. GAZA: WHEN A GENOCIDE IS HAPPENING SILENCE IS COMPLICITY The savagery that we see in the video, occurred, not in opposition to US policy and the Biden/Harris Administration, but with its full cooperation. If you are silent on this in your everyday life then you too are complicit, not at the same level for sure, but you are not … [Read more...]
Facts for Working People Blog – USA
FROM Richard Mellor, Afscme Local 444, retired, USA The issue Wolff raises here I think is basically correct. The end of the domination of US imperialism on a world scale is on the way. Gone is the period of the Best and the Brightest as Halbertam’s book was titled. Look at the decisions the US ruling class has made including and since the Vietnam War; Iraq, Afghanistan, Ukraine and perhaps the … [Read more...]
REVOLUTION OR COUNTER-REVOLUTION?
In recent years we have witnessed on the one hand an unprecedented wave of unrest, in protest movements in the USA and Europe and mass uprisings from Latin America to Africa and Asia; on the other, the rise and in many cases the electoral victory of far-right parties, including most recently the return of Donald Trump in the USA. At our weekly zoom meetings over the last five years the Workers' … [Read more...]
SRI LANKA: LAYING THE FOUNDATIONS
A WIN discussion November 2024. Follow the meeting HERE. Following its historic triumph in last month’s presidential election, a party which had previously led two bloody failed insurrections has now in a snap general election won an unprecedented parliamentary majority. From just three seats in the previous parliament, the NPP (formerly the JVP) has achieved a sweeping landslide victory, winning … [Read more...]
YOUTH UPRISING IN BANGLADESH
A WIN discussion, November 2024. Listen to the discussion HERE. In July Bangladesh was rocked by a colossal youth uprising in protest at mass unemployment. Hundreds of young people were brutally mown down by the security forces, but an entire heroic generation stood firm. The government was overthrown and the autocratic leader Sheikh Hasina fled the country. What has replaced the deposed … [Read more...]
Lifting import ban on automobiles: Sri Lanka sleepwalks into disaster
by Dhanusha Pathirana Having saddled the nation with a disastrous International Sovereign Bond (ISB) restructuring that ballooned debt repayments by billions - see HERE - the Central Bank Governor (CBSL) now pushes for lifting the import ban on personal vehicles – a blatant kowtow to the IMF's imperial agenda. Two days after the Governor’s remarks National People’s Power (NPP) government … [Read more...]
Monarchy – By Finn Geaney
The multimillionaire scion of the super-wealthy, landowning Windsor family was 2 years ago accorded some powers over the Westminster Parliament and Government, powers that previously were exercised by other members of his family. This landed elite of privileged oligarchs have, over centuries, abrogated to themselves significant power over Britain’s elected parliament. The powers that Charles III … [Read more...]
FACTS FOR WORKING PEOPLE
FROM Richard Mellor, Afscme Local 444, retired, USA Facts For Working People: Opinion: The meaning of Trump’s victory Facts For Working People: The Democratic Party We Knew Is Over. Something Fresh Must Take Its Place. Facts For Working People: US election 2024: inflation, immigration and identity Facts For Working People: The Video US Government Doesn't Want You To … [Read more...]