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...]
CLASS STRUGGLES IN INDIA – THE INVENTION OF PAKISTAN
Part 10 of our exclusive serialisation of a new book on the history of class struggles in India, written by a long-time supporter of the Workers’ International Network. At every stage, whenever the call had been given for a real mass struggle – whenever the eyes of the people were lifted beyond their daily misery to the hope of a worthwhile future – communal prejudices had faded into the … [Read more...]
CLASS STRUGGLES IN INDIA – THE FORGOTTEN REVOLUTION
The ninth part of our exclusive serialisation of a new book on the history of class struggles in India, written by a long-time supporter of the Workers’ International Network. India gained its independence through one of the greatest mass movements in history; and the full story still cries out to be told. How did it come about? How did the Indian National Congress come to lead it? What role … [Read more...]
No illusions: neither Zionism nor its state can be reformed!
By Yorgos Mitralias Although it may seem inappropriate to talk about a few Israeli hostages held by Hamas at a time when Israel is methodically exterminating tens of thousands of Palestinians before the eyes of the whole world, we believe that we must nevertheless return to the issue of these hostages because it is very revealing of the profoundly inhuman and monstrous nature not only of the … [Read more...]
Against Trump the dictator, history does not always repeat itself as farce!
by Yorgos Mitralias While Trump frantically multiplies measures, initiatives, and faits accomplis that are paving the way for the establishment of a truly dictatorial regime in the United States, the leaders of the Democratic Party, foreign ministries around the world, followed by the international media, as well as the overwhelming majority of “political scientists” and other think tank … [Read more...]