Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by Global Ecosocialist Network
COP 28 will take place in Dubai from November 30 to December 12.
Image: Ivan Radic
Back in May, the World Meteorological Organization reported there was a 66% likelihood of exceeding the 1.5 degree Celsius threshold in at least one year between 2023 and 2027. On November 21, only nine (...)
, by Fourth International
Statement by the International Committee of the Fourth International adopted on 25 October 2023.
Copyright. Demonstration in Liège. © Fourth International
1. The contradictions of the global capitalism continue to bring forth brutal wars and occupation. Threatened by economic and political (...)
, by LA BOTZ Dan
MEXICO’S PRESIDENT ANDRÉS Manuel López Obrador (or AMLO) has now been in power for five years, long enough to assess the successes and failures of his administration and to look toward the future. AMLO was elected to his six-year term in 2018 by a landslide, with 54.71% of the vote while his (...)
, by BROWN Becky
This summer, younger comrades met to foster international solidarity across the socialist movement. Becky Brown reports.
This year the 4th International youth camp was held in Vieure, central France, from 23-29 July. 200 youth from across Europe came together to better understand how their (...)
, by TRAVERSO Enzo
Livio Maitan belonged to a lost world of professional revolutionaries whose struggles and sacrifices left a deep mark on twentieth-century history. Historian Enzo Traverso pays tribute to one of the Italian left’s most creative activist-intellectuals.
This year marks the centenary of the (...)
, by TOUSSAINT Éric
Ernest Mandel was an internationalist and revolutionary activist who combined thought and action throughout his life. In intellectual terms, his extensive theoretical output, his many analyses of the economic and political situation and his numerous articles influenced a large generation of (...)
, by PARKER Ian
Ian Parker reviews a new book about the work of Ernest Mandel.
Manuel Kellner, a Fourth Internationalist comrade in Germany, had the good fortune to be able to write his doctoral thesis on the work of the Belgian Trotskyist activist and theoretician Ernest Mandel. Now here it is: Against (...)
, by LEE Eric
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 (...)
, by DE JONG Alex
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 (...)
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 (...)
, by DE JONG Alex
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 (...)
, by KELLAWAY Dave
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 (...)
, by Internationalist Standpoint
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 (...)
, by DUGGAN Penelope
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 (...)
, by CRAWFORD Vicki
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 (...)
, by COTTER Bridget
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 (...)
, by THOMPSON Sharon
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 (...)
, by BREATHNACH Colm
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 (...)
, by GIACHETTI Diego
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 (...)
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