From London, Roger Silverman analyzes the results of the recent elections in Britain and what those elections say about the mood and consciousness there: Some initial hurried reflections on the general election […]
Appeal from Greece
Through the Syriza-led Greek parliament, a “Truth Commission on the Public Debt” has been established. That commission is sending out this appeal. The questions it raises – such as who is profiting […]
Marxism and the Struggle in Greece
The Marxist economist Michael Roberts has an interesting and important piece on the economic plans of the present leadership in Greece and also the criticisms of the main left opposition there. The […]
Macron’s Law: “It’s called global capitalism for a reason.”
Some 40 years ago, this writer got into a debate in the Alameda County Building Trades Council with that council’s executive secretary. The executive secretary was pushing the line that our unions should […]
A New Act in the Greek Drama
What happens when a public entity – a school district, a local government or even a national government – is bled dry by the capitalists? It is taken over by “technical experts”, […]
Greek Update: What’s at Stake For Us All
It has been a scarce two weeks since the Greek working class put the radical Syriza party into power in Greece. They did that to put an end to the starvation there […]
Greece and the revolutionary movement in the US
On Sunday, January 24, national elections were held in Greece. Many young revolutionaries in the United States, caught up in the struggle here, may not have followed those events so closely. They […]
Greece: Revolutionary traditions
We reprint here some comments of Roger Silverman on the political traditions of Greece) Reformism never acquired the stable mass base in Greece that it had achieved historically in the rest of […]
Has the Tide Turned Against Pegida?
(Note: We have carried a series of reports by Dan Armstrong on Pegida – the right wing anti-immigrant and racist group in Germany. Here is his latest report.) The expected rift in […]
Germany: Broad rightwing populism as an antechamber for fascists
We carry a new report from Germany by Dan Armstrong: Yesterday the largest rightwing street demonstration in the history of postwar Germany took place in Dresden. This time the Pegida anti-immigration movement […]