A WIN discussion, 24th May 2026. See it HERE. Two weeks ago we began an investigation into America's war with Iran, and its repercussions on world relations: diplomatic, military and economic. The ongoing conflict has plunged the world into economic chaos, disrupted global energy supplies, brought a return to "stagflation", undermined the 50-year petrodollar oil price link, and threatened the … [Read more...]
Corbyn backs Rival Candidate for Newham
Roger Silverman reports on the campaign in the east London borough of Newham (6th May 2026). Even in the bizarre context of British politics today, it is unusual for a political party’s national leader to endorse the candidate of a rival party without even informing, let alone consulting, his own local members on the spot. But members of Your Party’s local proto-branch in Stratford and Bow … [Read more...]
Afghan Saur Revolution: History and Lessons
By Asif Rasheed As published in Asian Marxist Review Today, as imperialism and Taliban brutality continue their naked dance in Afghanistan, the significance of the Afghan Saur Revolution that erupted 48 years ago has grown more than ever before. The Impact of the 1917 Russian Revolution In October 1917, the Bolshevik Party in Russia, armed with correct theory, program, and method, led … [Read more...]
How to talk down a Marx sceptic
By John Clarke For the second time in the last few months, someone noticed what I was reading as I drank a cup of coffee and proceeded to engage me in conversation. (It was FF Raskolnikov's account of his role in the Red Navy in the years following the Russian Revolution). Last time, I had a wonderful chat with two older Jamaican socialists but this time I was dealing with a class … [Read more...]
Thursday Coffee Shop – IN THE AGE OF MONSTERS
IN THE AGE OF MONSTERS… In 1930, the Italian analyst and communist Antonio Gramsci wrote in his "Prison Notebooks": The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear'. This phrase is usually quoted in a simplified form, which renders its intended meaning much more vividly: The old world … [Read more...]
The turning point. Minneapolis rises up, Trump falters!
by Yorgos Mitralias As the tragic and shocking events in Minneapolis mean that the crisis in the United States under Trump now seems to be reaching both its peak and its point of no return, we must stop mincing our words in order to disguise the horrible reality of Trumpism, and therefore, from now on, call things by their name. Why? To make our ideas about the nature, objectives, and methods … [Read more...]
THE NEW WORLD ORDER
BY ROGER SILVERMAN WORKERS’ INTERNATIONAL NETWORK BLOG The world today is in a more disturbed state than at any time in the last eight decades. The global structure that came into being after the Second World War had divided the world into three sharply defined sectors: the industrially developed capitalist countries (“the West” plus Japan); the Stalinist states (the USSR and its East … [Read more...]
Trump in Greenland: old-fashioned colonialism and acceleration of the climate catastrophe!
by Yorgos Mitralias Almost everyone is currently talking, and rightly so, about Trump's clearly stated intention to occupy and annex Greenland “by hook or by crook.” However, no one has even mentioned what would be by far the most important and serious consequence of this imperialist and colonialist act of unbridled Trumpism: the enormous acceleration and worsening of the climate catastrophe … [Read more...]
Michael Roberts: Forecast for 2026
In many ways, the world in 2026 faces similar challenges to the year of 2025 – only more intense. The big themes of the past year are evolving, rather than disappearing. In my forecast for 2025 last year, I reckoned that “a recession in 2025 is unlikely; but on the other hand, it is too early to argue for any sustained rise in profitability across the G7 that could drive … [Read more...]
Trump and his Brown International: Following in the footsteps of Hitler and Nazism!
by Yorgos Mitralias The “National Security Strategy” published by the White House in early December is a very important document that must be taken very, very seriously. Why? Because it describes in detail and without mincing words what North American imperialism, reborn under Trump and Trumpism, is doing and plans to do. But there is more to it than that. This document should be seen as the … [Read more...]