Hypocrisy and fundamentalism: the attacks on women's rights in post-coup Brazil
Liga Socialista, Brazil Sun, 20/09/2020 - 12:35On 27 August 2020, the Bolsonaro government carried out yet another vicious attack on women's rights. Read more...
European state racism makes Lesbos a prison camp
Robert Teller Sat, 19/09/2020 - 10:27Greek police are now moving refugees into a new camp, Kara Tepe, on the island of Lesbos. Read more...
Britain: Tories could unleash a second wave by reopening schools
UCU rep, redflagonline, September 3, 2020 Mon, 07/09/2020 - 16:08As schools and colleges across the country reopen, the National Education Union (NEU) has accused Tory ministers of being “negligent in the extreme”. Read more...
Germany: Crisis, pandemic and the looming flood of corona deniers
Martin Suchanek, GAM Infomail 1116, September 1, 2020 Fri, 04/09/2020 - 13:46The second wave of corona deniers, ranging from Querdenken 711 ("Lateral Thinking 711") to the Alternative fuer Deutschland, AfD and various right-wing groups to the Reich Citizens, the Identitarian M Read more...
USA: Kenosha shootings show need for self defence
Dave Stockton Tue, 01/09/2020 - 17:17In 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...
Mali: Mass protests and coup
Robert Teller, GAM Infomail No 1115, August 27, 2020 Fri, 28/08/2020 - 12:17The coup in Bamako on 18 August drew attention to a mass movement that had previously received little attention. Read more...
250 years of Hegel: the philosophical master of the Dialectic
Gerald Falke, Neue Internationale 248, July/August 2020 Thu, 27/08/2020 - 12:01In the classical German history of philosophy, Hegel's work is regarded by some as its crowning achievement and, by others, as a thoroughly incomprehensible way of thinking or a particularly dangerous Read more...
The 80th anniversary of the death of Leon Trotsky
Dave Stockton Fri, 21/08/2020 - 17:37It 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...
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.