by Yorgos Mitralias ‘The second story relates to the Wilna ghetto. Until its extermination, some of the men were taken out of the ghetto to work in an arms factory. The director of the factory was a young SS officer (his name can be found in Kovner's book) who took a good look at the men who came to work every morning. Having realised that Kovner was their leader, he arranged to see him face … [Read more...]
A NEW ERA HAS BEGUN
by Roger Silverman The return to power of Donald Trump in the USA marks the beginning of a new era in world history. In its former strongholds of North America, western Europe and Japan, capitalism is decaying, prone to periods of stagnation punctuated by slumps and weak recoveries, and dominated by a shrinking elite of super-billionaires indulging in largely parasitic, corrupt and … [Read more...]
What Trump is doing is new, but is also not new: the novelty of openness and the barbarism of intensified oligarchic Western capitalism
by Dave Hill (16th March 2025) Class War and Late Western Capitalism Donald Trump and Elon Musk are, par excellence, `class warriors’, representatives of their capitalist oligarchic class. They have made a massive attack on the working class, attempting to summarily dismiss hundreds of thousands of workers, closed-down numerous government national and international agencies, laying off/ … [Read more...]
No illusions! Like the good fascists they are, Trump and his friends will violate international law and all established rules!
by Yorgos Mitralias When, at the beginning of the century, the great American writer Philip Roth rewrote the history of his country with his extraordinary novel 'The plot Against America', by having the legendary pro-Nazi aviator Charles Lindbergh elected President of the United States instead of Franklin Roosevelt, he probably could not have imagined that the political … [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...]
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...]
THE RETURN OF DONALD TRUMP
A WIN discussion January 2025. Listen to the YouTube recording HERE. "The golden age of America begins right now… We will be the envy of every nation". The Trump era part 2 started this Monday, and the world is waiting with baited breath in dread of the consequences. It began with the immediate release from jail of his mob of 1,600 rioters from 2021, and an inaugural address packed with … [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...]