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Britain today: Perspectives and Tasks for ACR. A paper agreed at the Anti*Capitalist Resistance 2021 member conference. What are the Tories up to?
The UK government at Westminster is dishing out attack after attack on our class with very little scrutiny, as opposition in England at least, is (...)
Under the theme of “Making Revolution Possible: Organise to Advance”, the Third Congress of Anticapitalistas, scheduled for 2020 and postponed due to the pandemic, was held on December 11 and 12, 2021.
“For the practical forces unleashed in a given historical moment to be effective and expansive, (...)
Socialist Party Scotland (SPS) statement.
At its conference on 4 December, Solidarity – Scotland’s Socialist Movement voted to effectively dissolve as a party. This followed a recommendation from its NEC, which includes Tommy Sheridan. Solidarity is now deregistered and can no longer stand in (...)
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The courage to leave, the fear of arriving It rains in the canal The current shows the way to the sea Copenhagen, Vetusta Morla
2015, which began with the historic victory of Syriza in Greece, seemed to herald winds of change in Europe from the south. A new (...)
In September’s German election, the socialist Die Linke party slumped to under 5 percent support. If the Left is to recover, it needs to show that it’s still on the side of disenfranchised working-class voters.
There’s no sense putting lipstick on a pig: the German federal election, in which the (...)
The following statement by the Marx21 network, published on September 28 [[https://www.marx21.de/die-linke-wie-weiter-nach-dem-wahldebakel], makes the case that the chief factor in Die Linke’s defeat was its decision to bet the house on an electoral front with the SPD and the Greens in the hopes (...)
Trotskyism has always been a movement of the margins, and not just in the sense that its organizations have usually remained in the shadow of the labour movement’s big battalions. In the few cases where Trotskyist parties have come to play a significant role, it has often been at some remove (...)
We are saddened to learn Rayner Lysaght has passed. Rayner Lysaght was a lifelong revolutionary Marxist, historian and author. He edited and introduced the IIRE Notebook “October Readings: The development of the concept of Permanent Revolution’’. Our thoughts go out to his friends, family and (...)
Statement adopted by the NPA Presidential National Conference held 26-27 June 2021.
After 18 months of pandemic, it is obvious that the capitalist system is incapable of resolving the great problems of humanity; on the contrary, it is creating new ones. By using a strategy of shock therapy (...)
The victory of the right in Madrid was overwhelming and the left has been left battered and in crisis. Podemos, on the other hand, was the product of an exceptional situation that cannot be repeated today. A political balance sheet has to be drawn up and a strategic readjustment is necessary. (...)
In the spring of 2021 it is difficult, no matter how hard we try, to recreate the particular atmosphere that began to take shape ten years ago. It has been a decade that has seemed like a century since the police charges against a group of just thirty people who had decided to spend the night (...)
On 27 February 2021 Germany’s Die Linke (“The Left”) party elected two new presidents - Janine Wissler and Susanne Hennig-Wellsow - as well as a new executive.
Many of the new members of this leadership belong to the younger generation who are committed to renewing the party : making it a modern (...)
Sinistra Anticapitalista, an organization of Fourth Internationalists in Italy, issued this statement on 24 April, the eve of the national holiday marking the victory against fascism in 1945.
Every day we need to continue to defend jobs, wages and solidarity between the Italian and migrant (...)
With local elections due to be held in Croatia on 16 May 2021, a left-green political platform Zagreb je Naš (Zagreb is Ours – henceforth ZjN) stands on the brink of a historic achievement. Its candidate for mayor, Tomislav Tomašević, holds a strong lead in the race and is predicted to defeat by a (...)
LeftEast has been around for just over eight years. It was preceded by two summer schools in Budapest, where some of its future editors—leftist East European(ist)s—met in a moment of happy recognition. One of them, Florin Poenaru, also happened to be the editor of the Romanian site CriticAtac, (...)
On Sunday 14 March 2021, after 65 days, the 63-year-old political prisoner, Dimitris Koufodinas, stopped the hunger strike he had started on 8 January. Since 16 February, he had been in the intensive care unit of Lamia Hospital, with either a serious threat of irreversible damage to his health (...)
The danger to see the first victim of hunger strike in Europe on 21th century is ante portas.
“Storming Heaven”, artwork by painter and Street artist Sonke Wia, made especially for D. Koufodinas
Dimitris Koufodinas is serving 11 times life sentence plus 25 years after he was convicted as a (...)
This urgent motion was adopted by the International Committee of the Fourth International on 23 February 2021.
The International Committee of the Fourth International urgently demands the fulfilment of the just demands of the political prisoner Dimitris Koufodinas, who has been on a hunger- (...)
Over the last four nights we have seen big demonstrations and also some pitched battles between mostly young protesters and the police of the Spanish State.
They are outraged at yet another attack on democratic rights and free speech. Pablo Hasel (Pablo Rivadulla Duro, 32 years old) is a (...)
The process of constructing Anti-Capitalist Resistance has taken a significant step forward. Ian Parker was there.
The two-day online event took place on Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 January, bringing together revolutionary Marxists from England and Wales, and visitors from elsewhere. This is one (...)
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