In Kenosha, Wisconsin, at 5.00 pm. on Sunday, 23 August, Jacob Blake was shot seven times in the back whilst getting into his car, by a police officer, Rusten Sheskey. Read more...

The coup in Bamako on 18 August drew attention to a mass movement that had previously received little attention. Read more...

It is 80 years today since Leon Trotsky, aged 60, died at 7.25 pm in a hospital in Mexico City from a wound inflicted the day before by Ramón Mercader, an agent of Joseph Stalin the then all-powerful Read more...

Sri Lanka's general election, held on August 5, gave a landslide victory to the Sri Lanka Freedom Alliance, the electoral bloc dominated by the President, Gotabhaya Rajapakse and his brother, Mahinda Read more...

The uprising in Belarus has reached a decisive point, as President Alexander Lukashenko told workers demanding his resignation and democratic elections, “as long as you don’t kill me, there won’t be a Read more...

A wave of strikes and blockades, called by the trade union federation, COB, and an alliance of peasant and indigenous organisations has paralysed Bolivia after the Supreme Electoral Court, TSE, announ Read more...

The explosion of 2750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate in the port of Beirut on August 4, which killed 154 people and injured over 5,000, left the city in devastation. Read more...

It was an eerie sight: up to 30,000 corona "sceptics" and direct deniers of the pandemic demonstrating in Berlin on August 1. Read more...

In India, almost one and a half million people have been infected by the coronavirus by the end of July. On 26.7. Read more...

A crisis was not unexpected in 2020. Many Marxists, including us, had predicted it long before the Corona pandemic, although not its historical extent. Read more...

For the last ten days, Donald Trump has been trialling a presidential coup d’etat, starting in Portland, Oregon but now being extended to Chicago. Read more...

During the first half of 2020, all countries experienced a massive shrinkage of GDP and industrial production. Read more...

Perspectives of the Russian Left

This interview, with Aleksandr Buzgalin, a speaker for the political-academic association "Alternativyi", took place in the middle of June, 2020. Read more...

The health crisis that ravages the world due to COVID-19 has exposed all the fragility of the capitalist system. Read more...

Internationally, women make up 70 percent of the staff in social and care professions. Read more...

While in Europe, outside Russia, the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic seems to be slowing down, at least for the time being, the situation on the American continent and in the Caribbean is very critica Read more...

Constitutionally, the People’s National Congress is the highest organ of state power in China. Read more...

Trading Lives for Profit – Updating the Reopening Read more...

Protests were held across Pakistan on Tuesday, May 19 under the auspices of the Workers' Solidarity Committee, WSC. The protesters included political activists, students and women. Read more...

Boris Johnson is due to announce the relaxation of the Covid-19 “lockdown” on Sunday. The Times reports ministers are worried there is a danger workers will become “addicted to it”. Read more...

First of all, the positive part of the political balance: Despite a nationwide ban on demonstrations, despite the restrictions on demonstrations to 20-50 people depending on the federal state, thousan Read more...

The impending catastrophe and how to fight it

We will not pay for the pandemic! We will not pay for the crisis! Read more...

Since the beginning of the Corona crisis, it has seemed as if EU regulations were little more than smoke and mirrors: border closures, debt for rescue packages, business support, procurement of medica Read more...

We've seen it coming for weeks now: actually for months if you count the initial denigration of the threat of the coronavirus and Covid 19 for the US by the Trump administration. Read more...

So much of capitalism in crisis is like the movie Groundhog Day. Read more...

The election of Keir Starmer as Labour leader, with 56.2% of the vote, represents a clear victory for the right in the party. Read more...

A Continent in Crisis Read more...

On the fundamental contradictions between sustainability and the capitalist mode of production

Contents
Introduction
Green Economy - the wrong answers of capitalism Read more...

The corona epidemic has the United States in its grip. Daily we hear about a rising number of infected individuals and sadly the number of deaths is also steadily rising. Read more...

Iran now ranks fourth in the world for total number of deaths from coronavirus. The death toll currently stands at over 2,700, with each day bringing hundreds of new victims. Read more...