Aman Kafa (UCU member, Worker-Communist Party of Iran - Hekmatist [official line]) gives an up-to-date report and analysis of events from Iran.Three years ago, there were mass protests across more than eighty cities in Iran. Now the recent presidential election has exposed more clearly than ever the hollowness of the regime. Iran's new president is the "hanging judge" responsible in the 1980s for … [Read more...]
Iraq: The Workers’ Fightback
Over the last four decades, the workers of Iraq have endured a brutal dictatorship, a war with Iran, a decade of sanctions, two wars with the USA, “shock and awe”, a full-scale invasion, and an upsurge of communal bloodshed. Hundreds of thousands have died. Yet the banner of the working class is still flying! We are proud to welcome, speaking live from Basra, Iraq: Abo Watan President … [Read more...]
Latin America: A New Upsurge
Amid the unprecedented recent wave of protests that has swept the world, nowhere has experienced more widespread turmoil than the South American sub-continent. Recent months have witnessed a general strike and uprising in Colombia; demonstrations throughout Chile and Brazil including well over a million in Santiago and a million in Sao Paolo; in Bolivia the return to power of the Movement For … [Read more...]
Will the World Economy Bounce Back?
Speaker - Michael Roberts author of The Long Depression: Marxism and the Global Crisis of Capitalism.The major capitalist economies seem now to be recovering fast from the catastrophic slump into which they were plunged by the COVID pandemic. Will this revival continue? Or is it just a short-term bounce back, as businesses re-open and vaccinations roll out? Meanwhile the countries of Latin … [Read more...]
Disability – a socialist perspective
One billion people around the world live with some form of disability, making up around 15% of the global population. The total number is rising fast, due both to chronic health conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and mental illness, and to wars, civil wars and environmental catastrophes – all manifestations in different ways of the devastating crisis of capitalism, which together … [Read more...]
France: The Deepening Crisis
Since 2016 (the year of the massive movement against the employment laws of Francois Holland’s minister of employment, El Khomry), there has been no let-up in the struggle. There has been furious resistance by the workers against attempts by the Holland and Macron governments to push ahead with neo-liberal reforms, destroying living standards and employment rights.After a lull at the start of … [Read more...]
CHALLENGE THE G7!
FOSSIL FUELS MUST STAY IN THE GROUND! DEVELOP SUSTAINABLE TECHNOLOGIES AND RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES! AN ECO-SOCIALIST LEFT FRONT MEETING: 9TH JUNE AT 7 PM BST. As the G7 meets in the UK, you are invited to a meeting at 7pm on June 9th 2021 to discuss how eco-socialists from different organisations and traditions can challenge G7 on issues from the vaccine to fossil fuels, climate crisis, … [Read more...]
Israel’s War on Palestine
As Israel continues its ferocious bombardment of Gaza, the last few days have witnessed massive solidarity demonstrations worldwide in support of the Palestinian people.These protests are reminiscent of the international campaign against South African apartheid in the past.Our speaker, Ronnie Kasrils, was a popular minister in South Africa’s first post-apartheid government and formerly a leading … [Read more...]
Where is Britain Going
John Dunn, veteran of the historic miners’ strike and socialist campaigner, introduces a discussion on Britain. What future does Britain face today? Will Brexit open up new prospects for British capitalism, or does it mark a new stage in its decline? Can the “United Kingdom” of “Great Britain” hold together, or will it disintegrate into separate statelets? Will the … [Read more...]
Some thoughts on the Pamphlet
“A Trade Union Vision for a Newand United Ireland” By: Trade Unionists for a New and United Ireland (TUNUI) Having read the above pamphlet and a response to it on the Workers International Network website (https://www.onthebrink.online/) by Joe Duffy I thought I would put forward a somewhat different view on the arguments put forward in the pamphlet “A Trade Union Vision for a New and … [Read more...]