Photo credit: Virginia Diamond ARLINGTON â Starbucks union organizers held a sip-in at the Courthouse Arlington Starbucks in Northern Virginia this past Thursday, October 20, from 8 AM to 3 PM. The organizers gathered to demonstrate community support for the baristas, who are organizing their union with Starbucks Workers United. Customers ordered…
Noch vor gut einem Jahr wĂ€re möglicherweise die Angst vor einem Atomkrieg als Hyperangst-PhĂ€nomen bezeichnet worden. Mit dem Angriffskrieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine und die Drohung des Putin-Regimes im Notfall Nuklearwaffen einzusetzen, hat diese Angst reale Grundlegungen erfahren.Angesichts dieser Entwicklungen ist das neue Buch von Klaus Ottomeyer…
Statement of the Communist Party of Britain The Communist Party of Britain welcomes this 22nd international meeting of Communist and Workers Parties in Havana. We salute our hosts, the Communist Party of Cuba. We pledge our profound solidarity with Cuba and its fight for self-determination and sovereignty. Our meeting takes place at a time when world…
Source: SKP â taistelujen tiellĂ€ (1945) Translated from Finnish by ML-Theory blog. BRIEF FOREWORD BY THE TRANSLATOR It must be said that although for decades O. W. Kuusinen was a leading figure of the old Finnish workersâ movement and the Finnish communist movement, and he opposed various kinds of revisionists and opportunists â he still became…
The latest polls put Workers Party leader Lula de Silva ahead in the two-horse race with incumbent right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro in todayâs final round of the presidential election in Brazil. Â If Lula wins, it will be a dramatic comeback for the former president after having been jailed for alleged corruption under the previous right-wing Temer…
ICC IntroductionWe publish here an article by the Internationalist Voice group, which argues forcefully against the attempts of the international bourgeoisie to steer the mounting anger of the population in Iran towards the illusion of an âemancipation of womenâ inside the confines of capitalist society. The article was written before the end of…
In many previous posts, I have argued the current sharp rise in inflation rates in all the major economies does not derive from so-called âexcessive demandâ; or from excessive money supply growth; or wage demands forcing companies to raise prices. It primarily relies on the failure of supply to match demand. Supply was drastically squeezed during…
The imposition of Rishi Sunak on Britain as prime minister by a handful of Tory MPs was an anti-democratic charade. Tory factions have squabbled and settled on Sunak, imposing the richest prime minister in history, swiftly after getting rid of the shortest lived and most incompetent. The political system of Britainâs ruling class continues to degenerate…
From L to R: Roberto Naduris, Suzi Weissman and Mike Davis I have lost a dear friend of nearly 50 years, Mike Davis, and the world has lost a voice like no other. An avalanche of remembrances and articles are already appearing, a testament to Mikeâs powerful and distinctive influence, his many books and articles, his generosity, his tireless life…
Kier Starter, leader of the British Labour Party, flagging his alterrnative (Photo: Stefan Rousseau/PA) Where does the current political crisis put the left?  I canât remember a time when it has been so divided, not only over the causes of a crisis but what to do about it.  Brexit, Covid lockdowns and the Ukraine war have all contributed, as have…
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The Communist Party has warned the labour movement against complacency after the Tory Partyâs slump in the opinion polls and the downfall of Liz Truss. Â As Rishi Sunak moved into Ten Downing Street on Tuesday, Johnnie Hunter told the CP political committee that the change of prime minister showed who really runs Britain. Â âThe Bank of England…
Bradford DeLong is one of the worldâs most prominent Keynesian economists and economic historian who is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley. DeLong served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Treasury in the Clinton Administration under Lawrence Summers. He is a architype liberal Democrat…
For weeks my wife had complained about Johnson and his lies and wondered how on earth he had managed to survive.  How did he get away with it and when will we be rid of him?  I explained that although he would go eventually I wanted the crisis caused by his repeated lying to continue as he was dragging the rest of the Tory Party down with him.  I…
Statement by the Communist Party of BC Provincial Executive, October 24. 2022 The disqualification of Anjali Addapurai from the governing NDPâs leadership race has set off political turmoil in British Columbia. Given the ups and downs of politics, it is far too early to make predictions about the impact on the NDPâs next electoral campaign. For…
[This is the second of two posts by Bo Harvey. See the first here.] V. Richard Westra is a contemporary scholar who has confronted the division between, on the one hand, structure and validity and, on the other, history and origin as it pertains to the question of periodizing the history of capitalism. In his Periodizing Capitalism and Capitalist Extinction…
 For President of the Socialist International Mr Pedro Sanchez (Spain) Letter  For Secretary General of the Socialist International Nominations have also been received from the following regional committee chairs: Africa, Caucasus, Latin America and the Caribbean  For Vice-President of the Socialist International There can be a maximun of thirty-six…
The Virginia CPUSA is once again saying âHands Off Haiti.â The Fallout From Last Yearâs Assassination Continues, Even Now In an article from last year, the Virginia CPUSA expressed outrage over the possibility of some sort of military intervention in Haiti after the coup that took place there last year. A year has passed since then and the fallout…
The resignation of Liz Truss after 44 days as Prime Minister is just the latest in an unprecedented and chaotic sequence of events in British politics since the Brexit referendum of 2016, and there is no sign that things are going to miraculously settle down into some sort of constitutional normality. At the time of writing, a new leadership contest…
By: Hari Kumar, Red Phoenix Correspondent How stupid do the British ruling class think we are? The Tory party hidden masters knew perfectly well what they were doing by enabling Truss to become Prime Minister. No attempt was made to disguise her vicious polices. Even a very placid working class would find it difficult to swallow the astonishing tax-relief…
An image circulating on social media showing Iranian students protesting a picture of the supreme leader. (Photo: Twitter via MERIP) Johanna Brenner (JB): As protests in Iran, sparked by the morality policeâs murder of Mahsa (Jhina) Amini, a Kurdish Iranian woman arrested for âimproper hijab,â enter their fourth week, many of us stand in awe of…
(Photo By Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile via Getty Images) Last week the Ireland womenâs football team beat Scotland one nil to qualify for the World Cup, which is more than the men can do.  They celebrated by singing songs including âCeltic Symphonyâ, which includes a line âOoh Aah Up the âRaâ (repeated 23 times in case you missed it the…
The speed with which Sweden and Finland have joined up with NATO is a clear sign of the rapid development of militarisation in northern Europe after the invasion of Ukraine in February. The process, initiated by Finland, led to a historic shift in policy for the Swedish government, abandoning a more than 200 years policy of non-alignment, dating from…
Even as Xi Jinping was promising Chinaâs Communist Partyâs national congress that China would âresolutely win the battleâ in key areas of technology, employees of technology companies in China and elsewhere were being told to down tools. Dozens of the hundreds of executives and engineers with US citizenship or green cards who work in or with…
Contrary to popular belief, socialists have long been at the forefront of human rights struggles. For example, the Chartists fought to expand voting rights in 19th century England. Similarly, Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks defended the ârights of nations to self-determinations.âNot to mention the critical role of socialist support of human rights…
