[Podcast] French elections: neither Macron, nor Le Pen!

[Podcast] French elections: neither Macron, nor Le Pen!


Friday, 22 April 2022 

[Podcast] French elections: neither Macron, nor Le Pen!

The final round of the French presidential elections will be held on Sunday 24 April. The French electorate will be called upon to chose between Emmanuel Macron or Marine Le Pen – two sides of the same pro-boss, viciously anti-worker and reactionary capitalist coin! While the so-called leaders of the French left and trade union bureaucrats have capitulated to bourgeois pressure, calling for workers and youth to form a ‘Republican Front’ behind Macron to beat Le Pen, we say: neither one, nor the other!


Hungarian election: Orbán’s landslide victory against ‘not Orbán’

Parliamentary elections were held in Hungary on 3 April 2022. Viktor Orbán's Fidesz party has won a supermajority for the fourth consecutive time. On this occasion, they won against an opposition that united a whole range of parties, from the right-wing Jobbik to the supposedly left-wing Socialist Party. While the opposition lost more than 800,000 voters compared to their combined vote in 2018, the far-right Mi Hazánk, founded in 2018 by former Jobbik politicians, entered parliament.


La position anti-impérialiste des travailleurs de TRAINOSE : une source d’inspiration pour la lutte

Header : TRAINOSE a dû mettre fin aux pressions qu’elle exerçait sur ses travailleurs à Thessalonique pour qu’ils participent au soutien technique des locomotives transportant les chars de l’OTAN depuis le port d’Alexandroupoli. La position militante anti-impérialiste des travailleurs de TRAINOSE et le soutien de plusieurs syndicats de Thessalonique ont permis d’obtenir ce résultat et montrent la voie à suivre pour l’ensemble du mouvement syndical européen.


Democracia Operária na Revolução Russa (Parte 1)

A Revolução Russa é o evento mais grandioso da história humana, pois pela primeira vez a classe trabalhadora não apenas liderou a Revolução, mas também tomou diretamente o poder em suas próprias mãos, e começou a transformar a sociedade. Esse ato é caluniado como antidemocrático, quando na realidade desenvolveu a democracia mais abrangente e revolucionária que o mundo já viu. Nesse artigo, Daniel Morley explica como isso funcionou na prática.


الحرب والدبلوماسية والموقف الطبقي

لقد أدى اندلاع الحرب، كما هو الحال دائما، إلى انطلاق كل أنواع النفاق والدعاية الكاذبة من قبل عملاء الإمبريالية. يجب على الماركسيين اختراق كل هذا وتوضيح المصالح الطبقية الحقيقية التي على المحك. وأنه للقضاء على أهوال الحرب، يجب القضاء على الرأسمالية.


La reforma eléctrica, una lucha parlamentaria no basta

El domingo 17 de mayo se votó la iniciativa de modificación a la Constitución (275 a favor, 223 en contra y cero abstenciones). Tal como se esperaba, la oposición del PRI, PAN y PRD, junto con Movimiento Ciudadano, votaron en contra de dicha reforma. La presión de las compañías privadas, encabezada por Iberdrola, jugó un papel fundamental en la definición final de los diputados referidos.


Rosa Luxemburg och bolsjevikerna: att slå hål på myterna

Rosa Luxemburg framställs ofta som motståndare till den ryska oktoberrevolutionen, som representant för en "mjukare" och mer "antiauktoritär" marxism i motsats till den som Lenin och bolsjevikerna påstås ha stått för. I den danska marxisten Marie Frederiksens nya viktiga verk The Revolutionary Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg som nu publiceras på Wellred Books blir dessa myter grundligt besvarade. Fred Weston och Parson Young ger här en introduktion till denna viktiga diskussion.