Colombia: Solidarity with the mass uprising
Tom Burns, Workers Power, USA and Carlos Magrini, Liga Socialista, Brazil Sun, 16/05/2021 - 11:15Colombia’s far right president, Iván Duque, lit the fuse of an uprising by working-class and middle class Colombians with a proposed tax increase, raising $8bn ostensibly to pay down the country’s deb Read more...
Super Mario as the Saviour of Italian Capitalism?
Aventina Holzer/Martin Suchanek, Infomail 1149, 10 May 2021. Fri, 14/05/2021 - 11:38The formation of a "government of national unity" under Prime Minister and former ECB chief Mario Draghi appears to be the last resort to prevent a collapse of Italian capitalism, to lead the country Read more...
Partition: A "carnival of reaction" 100 years on
Bernie McAdam, Red Flag Thu, 13/05/2021 - 10:03James Connolly, the great Irish socialist, correctly predicted the consequence of the partition of Ireland would be a "carnival of reaction both north and south". Read more...
Halt Israeli aggression in Gaza and Jerusalem - for a third Intifada
Dilara Lorin, Martin Suchanek Wed, 12/05/2021 - 13:19Once again, Israeli warplanes are bombing the Gaza Strip, the world’s most densely populated area, packed with 1.5 million civilians, including more than one million refugees. Read more...
Bobby Sands: Irish Freedom Fighter, 1954-1981
Dara O’Cogaidhin, Red Flag Wed, 05/05/2021 - 18:02Forty years ago, on May 5th 1981, Bobby Sands died in Long Kesh prison after 66 days on hunger strike. He was the first of 10 Republican hunger strikers allowed to perish by the British government. Read more...
Brazil - like a powder keg
Liga Socialista, Brazil, translated from Neue Internationale 255, Mai 2021 Wed, 05/05/2021 - 13:11What we are witnessing in Brazil today is the continuation of the 2016 coup that overthrew President Dilma Rousseff, Workers' Party, PT. Read more...
USA: Andrew Brown Jr killing: Justice can only be won by mass action
Tom Burns, Raleigh, North Carolina Mon, 03/05/2021 - 10:28On April 21, police in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, shot Andrew Brown Jr in the back of the head. Read more...
1 May 2021: For socialist internationalism against the crises of capitalism
International secretariat Thu, 29/04/2021 - 14:24The triple crisis of global recession, pandemic and environmental destruction is shaping the situation of the working class and all the oppressed. Read more...
1917 in Russia - two revolutions and a turning point in history - the first workers state. First published in 1987 this is an updated version using re-edited material serialised in Workers Power in 2007.
First published by Workers Power in 2000.