Yes, he actually said that – Gunther Oettinger, senior member of the European Commission. The “markets will teach Italians how to vote.” In other words, the blind, impersonal forces of global capitalist […]
“Markets will teach Italians how to vote…”
50 Years ago today: France on May Day, 1968
“While these lines are written, a student movement is agitating France….” Olivier Delbeke reports from France. For more on the history of May Day, see this article. Introduction Fifty years ago today, […]
Corbyn an anti-Semite? Roger Silverman comments
A huge brouhaha against Jeremy Corbyn is being kicked up by the capitalist media in Britain. They are claiming that this left leader of the British Labour Party is an anti-Semite. Roger […]
Report from Denmark
2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the great uprising in France (1968). Now, massive strikes against the neoliberal attacks of Macron are under way there. Below, Birgitte N. reports that something similar […]
Report from Germany
K. Reimann reports from Dresden in eastern Germany: As we know, yesterday was Election Day in Germany. I knew exactly that, despite my efforts, the AfD was going to win and that […]
Britain: Brexit Debate
Finbar Geaney, long time socialist in Ireland, writes on the ongoing debate in Britain over how to exit the European Union. Some on the socialist left both in Britain and in the […]
Report from Germany: SPD leader supports far right
Report from a comrade in Germany: Dear reader, Today I’d like to inform you about an interesting as well as disturbing fact. After the G-20 protest in Hamburg, the german justice minister […]
British Capitalist Class, Corbyn and Momentum: Update from Britain
by Roger Silverman from London, UK After an election called in the hope of strengthening their mandate, it is the Tories who find themselves humiliated, entangled in a “coalition of chaos” with […]
Grenfell Fire: Disaster and Explosive Mood
The mood is explosive. There are mass protests on the streets. This horrifying event sums up perfectly contemporary Britain: a systematically neglected run-down warehouse crammed with marginalised poor people (largely migrants, unemployed […]
British Elections: Corbyn Upsurge, May in “Hopeless Trap”
We are living in the most volatile of times. As the relatively stable prevailing world order of the last few decades passes away, sudden shocks and sharp swings to right and left […]