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• Economy & Globalisation (India)

  India: Statement on Adani conglomerate accused of malfeasance

  31 January, by Radical Socialist (India)

  On Friday Jan 27, the Adani group, led by Chairman Gautam Adani, lost $51 billion in valuation. Mr. Adani personally incurred a loss to the tune of $20 billion moving him from being the third richest to seventh richest in the world. Why did this happen?
  The decline in the Adani group’s (...)

• Far right (Ukraine)

  Ukraine, Right-wing Radicalism, and the War: Frequently Asked Questions

  21 January, by LICHACHEV Vyacheslav, VRABEC Aljaž

  Ukrainian President Volorimir Zelensky is a Jew, but Russia has been dropping bombs in Ukraine for nine months now and occupying foreign territory in a name of denazification. Russian propaganda and its supporters keep circulating photos of Ukrainians allegedly worshiping Nazism, but with (...)

• USA

  USA: Making sense of the Ukraine war

  27 February, by DRAITSER Eric

  A Critique of Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies
  Several years ago, I was sitting in a Lower Manhattan café with a friend, the journalist Arun Gupta, lamenting the state of the Left and how so many ostensible leftists had become little more than cheerleaders for reactionary politics. While (...)

• South Caucasus (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Karabakh)

  Karabakh’s Second Siege

  9 January, by CHETERIAN Vicken

  Azerbaijan, the economy of which is completely based on hydrocarbon production and exportation, and a contributor to global warming which is devastating our planet, a country where the slightest protest movement is repressed by police, is suffocating Karabakh Armenians by organizing a siege (...)

• Human Rights, police, justice (USA)

  A Revolutionary Way of Doing Politics Is Taking Shape in Sudan

  30 January, by ALNEEL Muzan

  Four months after a historic popular upsurge in Sudan in December 2018 and the government repression that followed, the military deposed long-time dictator Omar al-Bashir. Civilian and military forces then governed in partnership, with democratic sectors pressing for an all-civilian government. (...)

• History of people's struggles (Iran)

  Iran: Secular Revolt Against Clerical Tyranny

  30 January, by RAHNEMA Saeed

  "Throughout the years, and particularly in the past two decades, the Islamic regime has faced consecutive movements and revolts by different sections of the population in reaction to a wide variety of socio-economic and cultural problems. The September 2022 death of the young Kurdish woman (...)

• Human Rights, police, justice (USA)

  Unites States: Tyre Nichols’ death prompts calls for federal legislation to promote police reform – but Congress can’t do much about fixing local police

  30 January, by KARTERON Alexis

  Unites States: Tyre Nichols’ death prompts calls for federal legislation to promote police reform – but Congress can’t do much about fixing local police
  The severe beating of Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old Black man, by five Memphis police officers – leading to his death three days later – has (...)

• Blacks (racism, USA)

  United States : Black police officers aren’t colorblind – they’re infected by the same anti-Black bias as American society and police in general

  30 janvier, par SHABAZZ Rashad

  Black police officers can have bias against Black people – and act on it.
  Once again, Americans are left reeling from the horror of video footage showing police brutalizing an unarmed Black man who later died.
  Some details in the latest case of extreme police violence were gut-wrenchingly (...)

• Epidemics, pandemics (health, Issues)

  We are all playing Covid roulette. Without clean air, the next infection could permanently disable you

  26 January, by MONBIOT George

  As rich people plough money into ventilation to protect themselves, those with long Covid are treated as an embarrassment.
  You could see Covid-19 as an empathy test. Who was prepared to suffer disruption and inconvenience for the sake of others, and who was not? The answer was often (...)

• On the Left (UK)

  We must confront Russian propaganda – even when it comes from those we respect

  2 March 2022, by MONBIOT George

  The grim truth is that for years, a small part of the ‘anti-imperialist’ left has been recycling Vladimir Putin’s falsehoods
  Yes, there is something we can do. Something that, even if small, is meaningful. The propaganda war has always been crucial to Vladimir Putin. He uses floods of (...)

• Rohingya (refugee, Bangladesh)

  Bangladesh: Rohingya Crisis : The Picture Of Fund Crisis And Its Impacts

  16 January, by RAHMAN Shaikh Azizur

  Years after years pass by. A new year arrives, but does it bring any changes to the distress and vulnerability of the world’s most persecuted refugees around the world ? After the last Rohingya refugee influx into Bangladesh on August 25, 2017, an estimated 745,000 Rohingyas fled from Myanmar (...)

• Anti-War Resistance (Russia)

  Russia: You’re Not Invited to Our Molotov Cocktail Party

  19 January, by ARAMYAN Armen, ASTASHIN Ivan, LOSEV George, Vesna Movement

  Does it make sense to torch military enlistment offices? The short answer is no. And here’s why not.
  From the outset of the mobilization in Russia, military enlistment offices have been targeted by arson attacks. We realized that this appears striking and effective and may seem like a good way (...)

• On the left (Russia)

  It is always darkest before the dawn: how Russian anarchists today struggle for revolution

  25 January, by BOAK

  While it might seem that the neoliberal consensus has broken in some Western countries, in the post-socialist space discourses of privatization and individualization are so strong that we can hardly speak about a crisis of the neoliberal order. It is even harder to imagine some radical change (...)

• Rural & Fisherfolk (Bangladesh)

  Bangladesh: After the murder of Bakul Begum, Support Requested for her Sister Mukul Begum’s Treatment and for Legal Case

  30 January, by ALAM Badrul, BKF

  On 30 November 2022 Bakul Begum who is the local leader of Bangladesh Kishani Sabha, an associate organization of Bangladesh Krishok Federation was chopped to death by the local land terrorists. This incident took place in a small island situated in the southern coastal district of Bangladesh (...)

• Peru

  Peru: Amid nationwide rebellion, why hasn’t Boluarte resigned?

  30 January, by ESCALENTE Jorge, FUENTES Federico

  With protests to demand early elections intensifying in Peru, a request by de facto president Dina Boluarte to bring them forward to December was rebuffed by the right-wing controlled Congress, on January 28.
  Peru protest on Jan 19, 2023/ Protestors held the second ’March of the Four Nations’ (...)

• USA

  USA: What are the Lessons of Vietnam for Ukraine Today?

  23 January, by LA BOTZ Dan, SHALOM Stephen R.

  As the left did in nearly all earlier cases of struggles for colonial liberation, so in this one too it should stand with the liberation movement.
  The U.S. war against Vietnam provides a rather close analogy to the Russian war against Ukraine. An analogy, of course, is not an equivalence. (...)

• Great Britain & Northern Ireland (Europe)

  UK: The Tories and Lord Palmerston’s ghost

  24 January, by LEE Eric

  Nearly 170 years ago, Britain was at war with Russia and Karl Marx was convinced that the Prime Minister, Lord Palmerston, was colluding secretly with the enemy.
  During his research in the British Museum Marx examined hundreds of British diplomatic documents. His conclusion, according to his (...)

• Rural & fisherfolk (Indonesia)

  Indonesia: Political parties accused of chasing votes with offer to extend village head terms

  23 January, by NI’AM Syakirun

  Jakarta — The Indonesian Association of Villages (Apdesi) says that the political parties (parpol) are “enticing” village heads (kades) with a proposal to extend their terms in office in order to attract their empathy ahead of the 2024 legislative and presidential elections.
  Apdesi (...)

• Livio Maitan

  Livio Maitan: looking to the future - his legacy, his political and theoretical contribution to revolutionary Marxism

  11 January, 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 (...)

• Brunei

  Myanmar Junta Unveils Weapons it Hopes Will Defeat Resistance

  20 January, by OTTO (The Irrawaddy)

  Myanmar’s junta chief Min Aung Hlaing has unveiled some of his new military hardware, which he will hope can swing the balance as he battles a revolution on numerous fronts.
  At the Independence Day parade on January 4 in Naypyitaw a grand military review unveiled weapons that may be (...)