The house always wins: what we can learn from the Gamestop stock war
Rob Schofield, redflagonline Fri, 05/02/2021 - 12:00The financial world has been thrown into disarray at the start of 2021 as the stock price for GameStop, a US based brick-and-mortar video game retailer, skyrocketed by 8000%, hitting a peak of $469 pe Read more...
Austria: Corona demonstrations: Fascist marches or harmless confusion?
Alex Zora Thu, 04/02/2021 - 12:37In recent weeks, Austria has seen an upswing in the mobilization of “Corona-sceptics”. Read more...
Down with Bolsonaro! Motorcades across the country demand impeachment
Carlos Uchoa Magrini, Assyria Conti Tue, 02/02/2021 - 15:18The dissatisfaction of the Brazilian population with the Bolsonaro government has been growing ever since its inauguration. Read more...
India: Workers' and Farmers' Unity can halt Modi’s neoliberal onslaught
Bernie McAdam Mon, 01/02/2021 - 21:49Indian farmers and farm labourers are engaged in a massive struggle to repeal three agricultural laws, passed by parliament in September, that will deregulate and further privatise the rural economy. Read more...
A step in the right direction: Zero Covid!
Markus Lehner, Neue Internationale 253, February 2021 Thu, 28/01/2021 - 16:01The Corona pandemic, with its more than 2 million deaths worldwide so far, is certainly the most dangerous fast-spreading global epidemic since the Spanish flu. Read more...
EU at the Crossroads
Martin Suchanek, New International 253, February 2021 Wed, 27/01/2021 - 10:14For several years, Europe has been at a crossroads. The way forward concerns first the EU and the Eurozone, but of course also the countries outside the confederation, above all, Russia and Britain. Read more...
France: Macron’s war on Separatism
Kady Tait and Dave Stockton, Red Flag 38 Sun, 24/01/2021 - 14:16On 9 December, France’s prime minister, Jean Castex, held a press conference to announce the publication of a "draft law to strengthen republican values", aimed at defending secularism (Laïcité) and f Read more...
Rosa Luxemburg's Contribution to Marxism
Martin Suchanek Fri, 15/01/2021 - 11:51On the night of January 15-16, 1919, Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, heroic pioneers and front line fighters of the revolution sweeping Germany and Europe, were brutally murdered by the Freikorps 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.