A Workers’ International Network meeting, October 2023 WAR IN THE MIDDLE EAST - YouTube The sudden eruption of a devastating new war in the Middle East has delivered yet another shock to a world already rocked by war, recession, pandemic and climate catastrophe. Is the random killing and kidnapping of Israeli civilians by Hamas justified by the desperation of the population of Gaza … [Read more...]
THE LESSONS OF GREECE
A Workers’ International Network meeting, June 2023 THE LESSONS OF GREECE - YouTube Between 2010 and 2015, Greece was the scene of the greatest wave of mass protest witnessed in Europe for decades. Hundreds of thousands were marching on the streets, organising mass strikes and workplace occupations lasting for weeks and in some cases months, massing in the public spaces, hoisting … [Read more...]
Marx and the First International, with Roger Silverman
Speaking at a session of Labour Left Alliance Education Series April 2023 "In the great laboratory of the first world working-class movement, Marx and Engels, concentrating theoretically the whole experience of the working class, pitted the ideas of scientific socialism against all the bogus cranks and eccentrics who had latched on to the movement with their charlatan potions… The … [Read more...]
BUILDING THE INTERNATIONAL – Part 3
The founding of the Communist International (4) BUILDING THE INTERNATIONAL Part 3: the founding of the Communist International - YouTube WIN Youtube Discussion December 2022 Over the last few months WIN has been running an occasional series on the history of the workers’ internationals. These meetings are not intended to be dry academic seminars but dynamic collective inquiries into … [Read more...]
BUILDING THE INTERNATIONAL – Part 2: The Socialist International – September 2022
BUILDING THE INTERNATIONAL - Part 2: The Socialist International - September 2022 - YouTube This week's meeting was introduced by Ed Bober. As part of our occasional series on the history of the workers’ internationals, this week we focused on the Socialist International (also known as the Second International). On the day of the first worldwide general strike on May Day 1890, Engels … [Read more...]
Crisis Within Growth: National Limits and Shocks to Global Revival
CRISIS WITHIN GROWTH: NATIONAL LIMITS AND SHOCKS TO GLOBAL REVIVAL by David Hemson Introduction In 1930 the economist Keynes made a prophetic call: his grandchildren would work 15 hours a week. He saw capitalism as heading harmoniously towards superabundance, in which toil ceased in a leisure society. In the aftermath of depressions, great recessions, stagnation and austerity, it is clear that … [Read more...]