Since 9 September 1,500 Samsung workers at a huge plant in Chennai, India (representing 75 percent of the workforce) have been on strike. They are organised under the banner of the CITU (Centre of Indian Trade Unions), which is affiliated with the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM). Their core…

The recent elections in Austria saw polarisation to the left and to the right. The old government was punished, but the weak programmes of the Social Democrats and the Communist Party failed to create enthusiasm. Instead, the FPÖ won the election, basing themselves on fierce demagogic opposition to…

The year 1917 stands out as a turning point in human history. For the first time, the downtrodden, toiling masses fought back – and won! But we can say with certainty that that victory was only possible because of the presence of a theoretically trained and practically steeled party, the most revolutionary…

Photo: Portrait of Michael Jacobsen provided to the ISM. October 10, 2024 – Masafer Yatta | Israeli forces arbitrarily arrested 78 year old US citizen. Veteran Michael Jacobsen was accompanying a Palestinian farmer this morning in the village At-Tuwani in Masafer Yatta (South Hebron Hills), in occupied…

Dakarai Larriett was driving a friend home at 3:00 in the morning when he saw the flash of a Michigan State Trooper’s siren. Although Larriett was stone-cold sober, he soon discovered this would not be enough to protect him. After accusing him of a minor traffic violation, Officer George Kanyuh began…

Richard Boyd Barrett What’s been the impact of the movement in the last year? The last year has been absolutely momentous in exposing the brutal reality of Israel and the Zionist project—and what that project has done to the Palestinian people. There seems to be no limit to the horror, no boundaries…

Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On 1 October, U.S. Representative Michael McCaul, the chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee issued a statement urging U.S. President Joe Biden to ‘place maximum pressure on Iran and its proxies, rather than…

Glasgow marks the anniversary of October 7th. Photos supplied by press release. rs21 Glasgow comrades • October 11, 2024 From petals to property damage, rs21 Glasgow comrades report on the city’s response to the anniversary of October 7th, and argue that the year of genocide must also be recognised…

On Tuesday, October 1, around six students who are members of Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society at the University of South Florida, took a stand. They attempted to have a rally demanding free speech on campus for pro-Palestine protests. Students gathered to begin the rally when Dean of Students…

Social workers struck in Barnet, north London, earlier this year (Picture: Guy Smallman) Privatisation of social care has “failed” and “profit-driven providers” mean worse quality services. That’s the damning verdict of a new analysis released by the University of Oxford this week. Some 96…

Starmer may have won the general election, but some British Asians broke with the party  Are Britain’s Asian minorities breaking their long-term relationship with the Labour Party? That’s one question raised by a report into ethnic minority attitudes, published this week. On the face of it, Minorities…

Several weeks ago African Stream joined the growing list of content creators banned on social media platforms like YouTube, TikTok and Meta (Facebook, Instagram, and Threads), on crowdfunding platforms like GoFundMe, and even on payment- processing platforms like Stripe and Paypal. Stripe and all the…

Red Bird • October 11, 2024 It has been established practice for significant sections of the climate movement in Britain to plan actions which guarantee arrest. You act and then wait to be arrested. This was central to XR and still dominates in the groups which followed it, like Just Stop Oil and This…

On Wednesday 9th October, around 5:40pm, Israeli special forces entered Nablus by car and carried out a deliberate assassination of four Palestinians who were inside a a black Skoda vehicle, in broad daylight, on Faisal Street, near a popular market. The Israeli special forces’ car was painted in Palestinian…

There’s yet another doctors’ testimony about Israeli forces constantly shooting Palestinian children in the head, this one published in The New York Times. The report, titled “65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza,” begins as follows: I worked as a trauma surgeon in Gaza from…

Since 2017, we have witnessed a concerted political campaign to degrade and humiliate trans and gender non-conforming people in public life. For some, Labour’s election victory offered the opportunity for a reset, with senior cabinet members signalling a desire to ‘detoxify’ the debate. In practice…

By Nikos Mottas The notorious "Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation", an institute created in 1993 by the U.S governmental agencies in collaboration with the... crème de la crème of international anti-communism, has been exposed once again. This time, the Department of Canadian Heritage is being…

Following the General Election the Central Committee recognises we are in a new situation and have decided to adjust our work accordingly. To this end Comrades on the committee have considered their roles and responsibilities, and some changes have been made. Dónal Thomas has stepped down from the role…

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"This complaint is not only the largest ever submitted to the ICC, but it is also a milestone in documenting Israeli war crimes for future generations." By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams A Belgium-based advocacy group on Tuesday (October 8) announced it "filed an unprecedented and historic complaint with…

Communist Party Of The Philippines October 10, 2024 The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) joins the working class and people of China, as well as the international proletariat and all oppressed and exploited people around the world, in remembering the 75th anniversary of the founding of the People’s…

Recently while looking through an issue of the Soviet magazine Sputnik from 1974, I came across a photo of an absolutely wild looking train prototype. It was from an article about the visit of a Communist Party regional secretary to the Kalinin Machine-Building Plant where he was shown it. He said of…

Memingursa:Honestly the fact she isn’t even lying about progressive policies, pushing for a ceasefire, I intend to fight climate change and I intend to help youetc etc, and is instead fully doing “I’m less hitler.” shit is pretty dire (via down-with-capitalism)

Reliance on food banks is sky rocketing (Photo: flickr/Tim Ellis) Over nine million people in Britain experience levels of poverty and hunger so extreme they are vulnerable to reliance on charity food handouts, according to the Trussell Trust’s new report Cost of Hunger and Hardship. Some three million…