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I’ve just come back from an international conference that could not have happened thirty years ago. And it’s a conference that might also prove impossible to hold in just a few short years.
LabourStart’s Global Solidarity Conference on the theme of “trade union internationalism today” was held on (...)
Socialist scholar and activist Ernest Mandel was born one hundred years ago, on April 5, 1923. A ’Flemish internationalist of Jewish descent’, he was a militant and scholar, writing some of the most significant works of Marxist theory of the second half of the twentieth century.
Mandel was born (...)
Belgian Marxist Ernest Mandel popularized the term “late capitalism” to describe the way the system had changed in the postwar decades. Mandel’s work was a landmark in the study of capitalism, and we can still learn a lot from his analysis today.
Belgian economist and radical thinker Ernest (...)
Born on this day a century ago, Ernest Mandel was one of the major political thinkers of his age. From his teenage activism in the anti-Nazi resistance to his final days, Mandel was an uncompromising defender of socialist ideals and working-class interests.
he Belgian socialist intellectual (...)
Dave Kellaway reports on a conference he participated in last Saturday in Rome.
On April 1, there were hundreds of us in the modern auditorium of the central Roman national library. It may have looked like an academic conference of mostly senior researchers and professors with a sprinkle of (...)
If it had been a film, it could have been said that the conference dedicated to Livio Maitan, on the centenary of the birth of the Venetian revolutionary Marxist intellectual and leader who died in Rome in 2004, was a success with both the public and critics.
“Looking to the future” was the (...)
The feminist movement has been growing worldwide over the last few years; it is trying to “reclaim” March 8th from the bourgeois forces that try to turn it into a “holiday”, where men give roses to women and relieve them of household chores for a day.
So, on March 8 this year, millions of people (...)
In March 2023 women’s movements are playing a leading role in many countries around the world. This is neither new nor exceptional, but it should always be emphasized to show how women’s struggles are an integral part of the struggle to change, to revolutionize society, and that without women’s (...)
From family to grassroots activists, these are some of the women who shaped MLK’s vision and campaigns.
Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first scholars to focus on women’s roles in the civil rights movement. Her 1993 book, “Trailblazers and Torchbearers,” dives into the stories of female (...)
Wollstonecraft was ridiculed in her time for the idea that women should be treated as fully fledged beings.
Mary Wollstonecraft has had something of a revival in recent years.
Though considered the mother of first-wave feminism, the 18th-century philosopher long endured her share of trolls (...)
Lady Rhondda was a suffragette, a business leader and an editor. A statue of her is expected to be revealed in Newport, south Wales, next year.
The design for a statue of a leading suffragette has been unveiled in Newport, south Wales. Margaret Haig Thomas or Lady Rhondda was a lifelong (...)
The editors of this blog offer recommended reading – an article By Colm Breathnach of the Irish Left-Wing organization Independent Left.
A more colourful literary description of this phenomenon was offered by Yuliya Yurchenko at a November 2022 Dublin public meeting organised by Irish Left (...)
To commemorate the centenary of Livio Maitan’s birth, a conference will be held on April 1, 2023, at the National Central Library in Rome, Viale Castro Pretorio, 105 – 00186, exactly one hundred years after his birth. It aims to reconstruct the journey of a revolutionary Marxist militant (...)
We publish an interview with Simon Pirani, energy researcher and historian who publishes regularly on the climate crisis and on its social and political implications. Simon shares socialist ideas about society, the earth and their interconnection on People and Nature. Among his many (...)
Ukrainian and Polish trade unions are calling on delegates to the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) world congress to expel the pro-war Russian Federation of Trade Unions (FNPR) from its ranks.
The ITUC — the world’s largest global trade union confederation, with 331 affiliated (...)
The International Youth camp took place from 23 to 29 July 2022 in Vieure, France. After two years of suspension due to Covid-19, the gathering is a week of self-managed camp that this year brought together more than 200 young revolutionaries from different parts of Europe, but also from (...)
Between July 23 and 29, around 200 young people gathered to celebrate the 37th edition of the Revolutionary Youth Camp organised by the Fourth International in Vieure (France). After almost three years since the last camp, the hope, motivation and emotion of returning to share self-managed (...)
In Jacobin, Ben Burgis has a piece arguing “opposing war has always been at the heart of socialist internationalism.” It begins with a total howler:
The International Workingmen’s Association, later known as “the First International,” was founded in 1864 to bring together the world’s left-wing (...)
“I think he is a war criminal,” President Joe Biden said Wednesday of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Biden was responding to a reporter’s question following a White House event. Earlier, the International Court of Justice in The Hague, ruling on a complaint filed by Ukraine, directed Russia to (...)
The map of global participation in the sanctions against Russia suggests a new non-aligned movement might be on the rise
On 2 March, as the number of Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russia’s brutal invasion reached 1 million, the United Nations security council called an emergency session of the (...)
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