By Roger Silverman, April 2025 The world is reeling with shock and disbelief. Its dominant power has abruptly abandoned eight decades of economic orthodoxy, diplomatic consensus, strategic alliances and liberal pretensions. At home this means the shutdown of entire government agencies, mass redundancies, defiance of judicial rulings, incarceration, deportations, concentration camps; … [Read more...]
Internationalism in action as an antidote to the nationalist poison of resurgent fascism!
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...]
The Holocaust in Gaza is Washington’s Baby. The Class War at Home is Too
from Richard Mellor Although it may seem hopeless, I will not, and neither will this blog, stop sharing the horrific images and stories about the genocide that Zionism is committing in Palestine. The Israeli's are committing this horror with full support of the US and most of the western nations and media. The US provides the weapons, the money and the diplomatic cover. Netanyahu, a … [Read more...]
Gaza: “More than a human being can bear”
By Yorgos Mitralias The report by the UN Independent Commission* on Israel's sexual and reproductive crimes against Palestinians confirms what we already knew: the Zionist state systematically and massively uses sexual violence against Palestinian women, men, girls and boys! But the report also tells us something else: these sexual and reproductive crimes committed by Israel are an … [Read more...]
Michael Roberts: LIBERATION DAY
It’s not April Fools day (1 April). But it might as well be as later today US President Donald Trump announces another barrage of tariffs on imports into the US in what Trump calls ‘Liberation Day’ and what America’s voice of big business and finance, the Wall Street journal, has called “the dumbest trade war in history.” In this round, Trump is raising tariffs on imports from … [Read more...]
CLASS STRUGGLES IN ARGENTINA
A WIN discussion March 2025. See the recording HERE. South America’s second largest economy Argentina has witnessed a kaleidoscopic variety of political upheavals: Juan Peron’s populist-bonapartist regime, a guerrilla insurgency, a brutal military dictatorship, a “dirty war” costing 30,000 lives, defeat in the Falklands war, continuing turmoil and instability, and since October 2023 the rule of … [Read more...]
THE NEW PLUTOCRACY
A WIN Discussion March 2025. Watch HERE. The return of Donald Trump to the White House has shaken the world to its foundations. It has shattered decades of diplomatic relations, precipitated a wholesale trade war, and threatened outright annexations. At home it has begun mass deportations, defied judicial rulings and shut down entire state institutions. How are we to define the new order? Are … [Read more...]
NIKE DO YOU SEE US NOW?
Support women Nike sportswear workers from 25 garment worker unions in India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Cambodia and Bangladesh, coordinated by Asia Floor Wage Alliance and Global Labor Justice. The message they are sending could not be clearer: *Pay us what you owe us. *Treat us with respect. *And if you're going to be running advertisements promoting the image of "strong women", … [Read more...]
ISRAEL AND THE MIDDLE EAST – A SOCIALIST PERSPECTIVE
A WIN discussion March 2025. See the recording HERE. The fragile ceasefire reached in January between Israel and Hamas is now at breaking point. In Gaza, where tens of thousands are known to have been killed and countless more buried under the rubble, Israel has cut off all food, electricity, water and medical supplies. It has intensified its repression in the West Bank, fought with Hezbollah … [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...]