On September 26 the people of Venezuela will be electing a new National Assembly. The reactionary Oligarchy, backed by imperialism, is taking advantage of the shortcomings of the revolution to strengthen its position and prepare for the counter-revolution. The Venezuelan revolution has gone a long way, but key economic levers are still in the hands of the Oligarchy. What is required is to fully carry out the socialist revolution and expropriate the capitalists and landlords. That is the only way of making the revolution irreversible.
South Africa was moving towards a general strike type situation as the public sector strike that started on August 18 was building up momentum. Now the strike has been suspended by union leaders because of some concessions on the part of the government. This has angered many workers who wanted to step up action, not take a step back.
To mark the 70th anniversary of the assassination of Leon Trotsky, the Nigerian section of the International Marxist Tendency organised a Marxist weekend school on August 27-28, where they discussed the history of the workers’ internationals and other questions. Comrades were very happy with the school and look forward to more such events.
Ever since we founded of the Workers International League and published the first issue of Socialist Appeal, the need for a mass party of labor has figured prominently in our program and work. The objective need for such a party has been explained in countless editorials and articles. The lack of independent political representation for the US working class is an urgent problem and contradiction, which can only be resolved if the labor movement breaks with the parties of big business and forms a party of, by, and for the working class majority.
Happy Labor Day! We're proud to announce the launch of the Campaign for a Mass Party of Labor (CMPL). Over the next few weeks we will be unrolling the campaign, adding to the website, holding local launch meetings in cities across the country, and above all, spreading the word about the need to break with the big business parties and build a mass labor party. We invite you to learn more about, join, and work with us to help build the CMPL. Read more about the CMPL and join here. You can also join the CMPL Facebook group and help spread the word by inviting your friends and contacts.
Recently, TV and talk radio have been obsessed with stopping the construction of an “Islamic Center and Mosque” which will be located two blocks away from where the World Trade Center used to be. The right wing, including former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and NY Republican Gubernatorial candidate Rick Lazio, have seized on this issue, attempting to gain political support...What Gingrich, Lazio, Reid and other right-wing commentators are practicing is a well known method known as “divide and rule.”
The discussions on World Perspectives are the foundations from which everything else flows in terms of the perspectives and work in each country, our priorities, tasks, etc. The instability on a world scale has only deepened since the World Perspectives document was drafted, in the autumn of 2009. But the main lines of the perspectives have been entirely confirmed by the march of events. The following is a summary of the main points in the lead-off given by Alan Woods at the 2010 World Congress on the basis of notes taken by delegates.
Workers of Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited have launched a strike for one month. The main demand was implementation of the 50% salary increment announced by the government of Pakistan. After holding public meetings and rallies across the country the workers of PTCL from all over Pakistan assembled in Islamabad on 31st August at PTCL headquarters. Since then they have continued a protest sit-in at the company headquarters.
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A dos años de la nacionalización de Cemex (el 19 de agosto del 2008) lo que ha logrado la junta de transición ha sido aliarse con los jefes medios e intermedios. En vez de darles fuerza a los trabajadores, lo que han hecho es darles fuerza a los jefes medios. Estos fueron los que en el 2002 celebraron con whisky la caída del presidente. Desde el sindicato los hemos venido señalando con nombre y apellido quiénes son estos tecnócratas y burócratas, estos mismos son los que han sido premiados con los mejores cargos dentro de la estructura de la empresa.
Con la realización del congreso fundacional el 19 de junio, la elección de autoridades provisorias y una serie de encuentros regionales en Avellaneda, Lanús, La Matanza, Caseros, etc. se van dando pasos en la conformación de la Unidad Popular. Está impulsada por el sector de la CTA encabezado por Víctor De Gennaro, que ha delimitado por izquierda con el kirchnerismo, y la integran cientos de dirigentes sindicales y sociales.
A 70 años de que el asesino Ramón Mercader, gánster stalinista, asestara el golpe que acabaría con la vida de León Trotsky es pertinente hacer una breve revisión de dos episodios que han sido desvergonzadamente utilizados por “historiadores” burgueses (como Robert Serrvice) para arrojar lodo y tierra sobre los dirigentes de octubre Lenin y Trotsky e identificarlos con el brutal régimen de Stalin; la memoria de Octubre tiene que ser enterrada bajo una “montaña de perros muertos” pues el peligro de su ejemplo sigue quitando el sueño a la clase dominante y sus plumíferos a sueldo.
Recientemente se acaba de conmemorar el 70 aniversario de la muerte de León Trotsky. Los camaradas de Lucha de clases hicimos una corta entrevista a Esteban Volkov, nieto de León Trotsky, con motivo de los actos que realizaran los compañeros de Aporrea.org en Caracas y en oriente del país. Invitamos a todos los camaradas trabajadores y del PSUV a participar en los actos que se van a realizar. Pueden ver la agenda en: http://www.aporrea.org/ideologia/a28441.html
En los últimos días una noticia ha conmocionado a la opinión internacional del continente americano, en Tamaulipas se encontraron a 72 inmigrantes acecinados, inmediatamente han llegado en todas direcciones lamentaciones, condolencias y muchas promesas, sin embargo ésta solo es la punta de una montaña de horrores que sufren nuestros hermanos centroamericanos en el transcurso por México hacia los Estados Unidos; la Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos habla de 10 mil secuestrados en 6 meses.
[MFV] La Campaña Internacional Manos Fuera de Venezuela y el Congreso Bolivariano de los pueblos llaman a unas Jornadas Mundiales de Solidaridad con la Revolución Bolivariana los días 17 y 18 de septiembre. VIDEO - COMUNICADO - ACTOS PREVISTOS - CAMPAÑA de FIRMAS - LISTA DE FIRMANTES
El paro cívico indefinido que ha tenido bloqueados por 19 días la ciudad de Potosí y varios municipios del mismo departamento se va concluyendo con un acuerdo recibido como una victoria por el pueblo potosino tras su más larga y participada movilización desde hace décadas. Este ha sido el enésimo conflicto de los 7 últimos meses de nueva gestión, un conflicto desatado en el departamento donde Evo y el MAS obtuvieron los más altos porcentajes de votos a nivel nacional. El pueblo se movilizó con la perspectiva de presionar a su propio gobierno para que solucione las contradicciones que el conflicto ha evidenciado, pero en este conflicto estaban y siguen en juego también los intereses de una burguesía local fortalecida por un largo periodo de repunte de la actividad minera que ahora, con la consigna de “Potosí Federal” pretende aprovechar demagogicamente las expectativas y los problemas de los trabajadores, campesinos y del pueblo potosino en general, problemas que el gobierno ha dejado pendiente por no querer afectar a los intereses de las grandes multinacionales.
The first volume of Ted Grant's collected writings is at the printer's and will soon be available to order from Wellred Books. Here we provide the Introduction which gives an outli...
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The second edition of Marxism and the U.S.A. is now available from Wellred Books. The new edition is greatly expanded, including all new appendices and this new introduction by John Peterson, National Secretary of the Workers International League.
New from Wellred USA! The first US edition of Bolshevism: The Road to Revolution by Alan Woods. This monumental 500+ page study of the history of growth and development of Bolshevism demolishes the myths of both Stalinist and pro-capitalist historians of the Russian Revolution. Read More
The Pakistan Revolution of 1968-69 was one of the greatest revolutionary movements of the 20th century. It is rich in lessons and Lal Khan's book is an outstanding summing up of these lessons. It deserves most careful study by every revolutionary.Read More
A new book has come out recently, written by Maziar Razi of the Iranian Marxists' Revolutionary Tendency, with an Introduction by Alan Woods. It is a collection of articles on the crisis of the Iranian regime and the perspecti...
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The crisis capitalism has entered globally is having a deep impact on the real living conditions of billions of workers all over the world. With this comes a growing consciousness among ordinary working people and youth that something is seriously wrong with this system, that this cannot be the way human bei...
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This book by Alan Woods is a polemic against a well-known (in Latin American terms) intellectual Heinz Dieterich. Dieterich claims to have invented a new "Socialism of the 21st Century" and much else into the bargain. He offers a great deal of advice to those involved in the Venezuelan Revolution dressed...
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Wellred Publications is pleased to announce the publication of a new book on Trotsky's famous theory of the Permanent Revolution, written by John Roberts. This work critically analyses and compares Lenin and Trotsky's writings in relation to the theory of the Permanent Revolution and defends that theory against revi...
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This book, by Ted Grant and with a preface by Trotsky's
grandson Esteban Volkov,
covers the key developments
in Russia since the Revolution right up to the present day. It
traces the elimination of
workers' democracy, the rise of Stalinism, the advances of
planned economy and the
eventual collapse of the bureaucratic sy...
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In 1918-33 revolution and counter-revolution followed hot on each others' heels. The barbarity of the Nazis is well documented. Less well known are the events that preceeded Hitler's rise to power. Rob Sewell gives a picture of the tumultous events - the 1918 revolution, the ...
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This book by Ted Grant is a unique contribution to the history of British Trotskyism. It begins with the debate on Trotskyism in the British Communist Party in 1924 and ends with the break-up of the Revolutionary Communist Party in 1949 and the beginning of more than thir...
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There have been many books and potted histories of Russia, either written from an anti-Bolshevik perspective, or its Stalinist mirror image, which paint a false account of the rise of Bolshevism. For them, Bolshevism is either an historical "accident" or "tragedy". Or it is portraye...
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It is now more than thirty years since the publication of the first edition of this work. It was written as a reply to Monty Johnstone, who was a leading theoretician of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Johnstone had published a reappraisal of Leon Trots...
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This book represents an important contribution to our understanding of the Iranian revolution. This work will be particularly useful in the West where it is universally believed that the revolution of 1979 was a movement of Islamic fundamentalists led by the Ayatollah Khomeini to push Iran b...
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This text was originally written by Alan Woods as a part of the book Reason in Revolt: Marxist Philosophy and Modern Science, but eventually the book became too long and this part had to be left out. Therefore this history of philosophy is published here for the first time. With chapters on: Do we Need Philosophy?, The ...
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The comrades in Pakistan were just about to publish a new book on Kashmir when the devastating earthquake hit a month ago. The comrades have been hard at work on their solidarity and relief operations. Given the current crisis in Kashmir, they have decided to go ahead with the publication of the book. Over the weeks we will pu...
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There are many narrative histories of the struggles of British workers. However Rob Sewell’s book is different. The purpose of this history of British trade unionism is not only to recite the wrongs inflicted on working people, or simply to describe their heroic struggles. It is an attempt to draw out the lessons of the events that helped ...
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Pakistan: Revolutionäre Fluthilfe und Protestaktion in Multan
Tujuh puluh tahun setelah pembunuhan Trotsky, dan masih lagi satu usaha pembunuhan
Venezuela: Economische oorlog in de aanloop naar de parlementaire verkiezingen
Il congresso mondiale della Tendenza marxista internazionale: Un grande passo avanti
Sudafrica - I lavoratori del pubblico impiego in sciopero a oltranza
France: 7 septembre - vers une mobilisation exceptionnelle
Weer een nieuwe provocatie van Colombia tegen Venezuela – steun de Venezolaanse revolutie!