Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by DUTRA Israel, FUENTES Federico
Israel Dutra, of the Brazilian Socialist Left Movement (MES), speaks to LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal’s Federico Fuentes about Putin’s war, solidarity with the Ukrainian resistance and Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s peace proposal. Dutra also discusses the twin (...)
, par ALEWITZ Mike, ALLISON Sam, WILLIAMS Douglas
“Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea.” — Leon Trotsky
“LET’S RENT A TRAIN !” is an unprecedented historical film about the rise and fall of a militant revolutionary group that profoundly altered (...)
, by MARTINS Rafael Moro
The Worker’s Party knew weeks ago that Congress would undercut the environmental area. But not only did the party abandon ministers. It also condoned changes that make the organizational structure of Lula’s administration look similar to Bolsonaro’s
Only a few days after the close of the Free (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
The struggle between the Republican and Democratic Parties over the national debt threatens the social programs that help the country’s poor.
House leader Kevin McCarthy, who speaks for the Republicans who have a majority in the House of Representatives which controls the country’s budget, has (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
U.S. President Joe Biden, using his executive authority, has put in place a new immigration policy designed to stop most of those seeking to immigrate into the United States.
With the expiration of Title 42, a public health measure used by former president Donald Trump and then by Biden (...)
, by FUENTES Federico
Marxist economist Michael A Lebowitz passed away at home on April 19. With his death, the international left has lost one of its most insightful and original thinkers, whose contributions to reviving Karl Marx’s vision of socialism are essential reading for activists.
Lebowitz built on his (...)
, by KELLAWAY Dave
Just before the “Coronation weekend” local elections took place in England. The (complicated) system means that not all councils are up for re-election and not necessarily all seats on the same council in the same year. Given the chaotic last year for the Tory government (three prime ministers) (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Some 11,500 writers for the entertainment industry—TV broadcast and cable, movies and streaming—most based in Los Angeles and New York, decided May 1 to strike the industry over pay and job security, the first such strike in fifteen years. It may also be the first strike over artificial (...)
, by LIPIETZ Alain
In an open letter to “Le Monde”, the economist and former green MEP Alain Lipietz questions the President of Brazil on his position regarding the war in Ukraine and invites him not to fight the wrong battle.
Mr. President Lula, dear comrade,
We met in 1984 at the headquarters of the metal (...)
, by CONNELL Robert
Maroon community and visitors celebrate in Accompong, 2017. Robert Connell SINCE ITS FOUNDING in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a global infrastructural development project of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) that stands as a major plank of its diplomacy, has been at the center of (...)
, by FEELEY Dianne
WITH THE NEW UAW International Executive Board (IEB) sworn in and the 2023 UAW Bargaining Convention concluded, the union must focus on the upcoming negotiations for its Big Three auto contracts.
For their part, Ford, General Motors and Stellantis (formerly Chrysler) are gearing up as the (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
While it is still a year and seven months until the next U.S. presidential election, the race is beginning to shape up as a rematch between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump. Biden, saying he is fighting for “freedom” and “our democracy,” formally announced that he will be a (...)
, par CARVALHAES Ana C., LEITE José Correa
Lula and the PT have structured the new government by further expanding the democratic front that won the elections, incorporating parts of the traditional oligarchies of the Centrão [1] After managing to move to an offensive stance on Bolsonarism, worn down by the January putsch and by (...)
, by CARVALHO Nadja, CAVALCANTE Deborah , RAMOS Marcelo
The National Leadership of the PSOL approved on the 15th, among other issues, a first critical position on the fiscal framework proposal presented by Haddad and Tebet to the press.
Despite possible changes to the final text the matter was formally brought before the Brazilian National (...)
, by MIAH Malik
What is Atlanta’s “Cop City”? Why are people protesting?
Protests began in 2021 when the city announced plans to open Cop City – officially called the Public Safety Training Center (PSTC).
The large police training center, to be constructed on forest land owned by the city, has garnered national (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
Abortion is the center of American politics and likely to remain a principal issue through the 2024 election. Republicans have made the virtual elimination of abortion rights the leading edge of their political campaigns, their legislative agenda, and their judicial battles.
Every Republican (...)
, by MIAH Malik
TENNESSEE LEGISLATORS, ALL Republicans, voted to expel two members from the state legislature after they and a third member — all Democrats — took part in a protest against gun violence from the floor of the chamber in the state’s capital in Nashville.
The April 6 votes resulted in Justin Jones (...)
, by MIAH Malik
WE LIVE IN a surreal reality. Those of us who argue for truth-telling about history are attacked as practicing a nonexistent “wokeism” as described by Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis and followers of former president Donald Trump.
“Anti-Wokeism” is an attack on both racial justice and (...)
, by LOWENSTEIN Fiona, PRIOR Ryan
Millions of American adults are impaired by long Covid. They have a vision for what our society owes to chronically ill and disabled people."
On a muggy late-summer day in September 2022, dozens of disabled protesters lay on the sidewalk outside the White House. The ground was hot, and sweat (...)
, by SHAFER Paul, STOJANOVSKI Kristefer
On the basis of government appointment technicalities and religious freedom, Americans may lose free coverage for cancer and blood pressure screenings, HIV prevention medication and other essential services.
Many Americans breathed a sigh of relief when the Supreme Court left the Affordable (...)
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