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, by OKDE-Spartakos
Comrade Mimis Livieratos, an emblematic figure of the post-war Greek revolutionary movement, is no longer with us!
The young rebel of ELAS, the last remaining delegate of the founding conference of the Communist International Party of Greece, the Greek section of the Fourth International, (...)
, by KLEIN Angela
Winnie Wolf died on the night of 23 May. Severe liver disease had already brought him close to death once; with the help of a new kind of therapy he got back on his feet for a few months, threw himself into work again and went on lecture tours. As late as April, he had agreed to present his (...)
, by FENIS Bong, IIRE-Manila
We share the sadness that comrades in the international community felt for the death of Comrade Marijke Colle on 16 April 2023 at the age of 75.
The International Institute for Research and Education – Manila and its network of mass and political activists in the Philippines offer the (...)
, by Anti-Capitalist Feminists, SHINE Oksana
FOR YOU MARIJKE, WITH A SPECIAL THOUGHT FOR PIPS AND ALL THE PEOPLE WHO WERE DEAR TO YOU.
Tribute pronounced by Oksana Shine during the funeral, Thursday 27 April 2023.
For you Marijke, with a special thought for Pips and all the people who were dear to you.
I speak today on behalf of (...)
, by TANURO Daniel
Tribute delivered by Daniel Tanuro at the funeral of Belgian eco-socialist and feminist Marijke Colle, Thursday, 27 April 2023.
Honouring the memory of Marijke requires mobilizing many qualifiers. Marijke was an extremely intelligent person. She was a scientist attached to reason, rigor and (...)
, by Gauche anticapitaliste (Belgique)
It is with great sadness and emotion that we have learned of the death this morning of 16 April 2023 of our comrade Marijke Colle, at the age of 75.
Born in 1947 in a very conservative Flemish Catholic family, Marijke studied biology in Ghent and became radicalized like many young people of (...)
, by DE JONG Alex
On Sunday 16 April came the sad news that our comrade Marijke Colle passed away at the age of seventy-five. A staunch feminist-socialist, Marijke devoted herself to various movements for many years and remained politically active until the end. Her dedication, intellect and zeal made her a (...)
, by PIETERSON Herman
We mourn the loss of our friend and comrade Arend van de Poel who passed away on 4 January 2023. He first became politically active in 1966 when he joined protests against the US war in Vietnam. He joined the independent Socialist Youth and some years later was a founding member of the (...)
, by DE JONG Alex
Maurice Ferares (5-1-1922- 18-12 2022) always in resistance. We received the news that Maurice Ferares passed away 18 December 2022. Maurice was politically active throughout his adult life in the revolutionary socialist movement. We lose in him an extremely committed comrade, who always and (...)
, by KAAGE Gus, NIKELL Eva
Göte Kildén, pioneer of Socialist Politics (SP) in Sweden and the first editor of the journal Internationalen, died on Wednesday night last week [17 November]. Although we knew that Göte had been severely ill since a long time, many friends and comrades were halted mid-step, affected by the (...)
, by ABERNETHY Richard
Summary: Besides being a revolutionary and one of the most creative post-Marx Marxist thinkers, Rosa Luxemburg was a dedicated birdwatcher. Her notes on birds may help us reveal an aspect of her approach to life, nature, and the new society – Editors.
In Berlin, one morning in April 1916, (...)
, by MERLO Alex
The trajectory of Podemos, an organization that emerged from the Indignados movement in the Spanish state, gives some indications of the possible trajectory of radical left currents in France. As a political force, Podemos is a very contradictory phenomenon, with different tendencies that have (...)
, by STAM Jaap
Man with the wild hair led the way in protest against the Vietnam War.
Doctors Without Borders, the Red Cross, Flying Doctors, Oxfam Novib, the Netherlands-Vietnam Medical Committee, which continues to support people who need help as a result of the Vietnam War; Ariëla Legman, who entered (...)
, by KELLAWAY Dave
Dave Kellaway reviews David Broder’s book: The Rebirth of Italian Communism, 1943-44 (Palgrave Macmillan 2021)
This is the story of several thousand resistance fighters in Rome who were organised as the Movement Communists of Italy (MCd’I), sometimes better known by the name of their (...)
, by ARIAN Max
Maarten van Dullemen was editor abroad of De Groene Amsterdammer for over ten years, from 1969 to 1980. He opened the magazine to news from other parts of the world. Later he imported very beautiful Vietnamese pottery.
Our world did not revolve around the Sarphatistraat in Amsterdam [This (...)
, by KRIVINE Hubert, SAMARY Catherine
It was with sadness that we learned of the death of Petr Uhl at the age of 80 on 1 December 2021, after a long illness. Like the Polish Marxist activists Kuron and Modzelevski in the mid-1960s, Petr Uhl in Czechoslovakia embodied for us in the heart of the Prague Spring in 1968 the living (...)
, by LÖWY Michael
At many points throughout its long history, the labor movement has confronted a choice: either support nationalism, “national defense,” and war, or fight for internationalism: “Proletarians of all countries unite!” This fateful choice has determined the course of history at many decisive (...)
, by KELLAWAY Dave
Dave Kellaway looks back at the Pablo Iglesias era which found the Spanish left in the political ascendancy.
A month or so ago, Pablo Iglesias failed in his bid to push back the right wing ascendancy in the Madrid regional elections. The defeat turned into a personal turning point for him (...)
“A real re-foundation of communism in the twenty-first century will not be able to do without the revolutionary, Marxist, democratic, socialist and libertarian message of Rosa Luxemburg.”
If we had to choose the distinctive feature of Rosa Luxemburg’s life and thought, it is perhaps (...)
, by TRAVERSO Enzo
The author, anti-fascist partisan, and Nazi death camp survivor Primo Levi died on this day in 1987. His life and the cautious Enlightenment ideology he advanced in his work, Enzo Traverso writes, told the story of the twentieth century and its battles.
It would be banal — and nevertheless (...)
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