International

UPDATE: Cyprus and the division in the union  Kevin Ovenden updates his earlier article on the crisis devastating Cyprus.   Since then events have proceeded rapidly and dramatically. They will continue to do so. This introductory update is meant to highlight the political significance of some of those developments in a fast moving crisis. 1) […] Read more »

In the last week of February, after days of protests across the country, the Bulgarian government headed by Boyko Borisov resigned. Mariya Ivancheva looks at how it happened and what comes next.   From the beginning of February, Bulgarians in most big cities have been out in the streets, protesting against the increased electricity and […] Read more »

Ralf Streck works as an independent correspondent for Radio Dreyeckland. Here he looks at a new phenomenon in Portugese political life – the re-emergence of military associations on the side of the people. These associations are demanding the resignation of the conservative government. There are reports of similar developments in both the Greek and Spanish […] Read more »

Camilla Power, a member of the Radical Anthropology Group, looks at the work of Marx and Engels on the women’s question and casts a critical eye on the Marxist left’s response to feminism. Camilla begins her article citing the case of  a trade unionist who has accused a leading member of the RMT union of […] Read more »

Mass protest has erupted in Greece as local people fight to prevent environmental catastrophe at the hands of gold companies and the Greek government.  David Haralambidis explains the background to the crisis.  The history of gold in Greece dates back to ancient times.  Indeed, gold in Halkidiki, one of the most beautiful and historically important regions […] Read more »

Notes on The Society of the Spectacle, 2013, from Heath Schultz I began this project not because I thought it must be done out of some political or aesthetic concern, but with the modest hope to better understand The Society of the Spectacle. How odd, I thought, that for all the interest in Situationist artwork […] Read more »

Bill Shortell, an official with the International Association of Machinists in Connecticut, argues for a move from military industrial production to manufacturing for peace Diverse forces are now converging in an attempt to carve up the military budget. These are  those who would cut it to reduce the deficit. There is considerable logic on their […] Read more »

International Women’s Day – 8th March – was originally a socialist holiday established in 1911 by the Socialist International and is celebrated by women’s groups around the world. In many countries, it is a national holiday and has recently been officially recognized by the United Nations, say Margaret Rapp and Susan Pashkoff. However, up until […] Read more »

The tragic death of Hugo Chavez is mourned around the world. Kate Hudson explains the social and economic context of his enormous political success and urges solidarity with the people of Venezuela. As devastating structural adjustment policies were inflicted on Latin America by the IMF and the World Bank during the 1980s, the people of […] Read more »

Last Saturday’s “Que Se Lixe a Troika” (Fuck the Troika) demonstrations represent a qualitative as well as quantitative shift for the anti-austerity movement in Portugal, says socialist activist Mark Bergfeld, who recently attended the Left Bloc Congress. In more than 40 towns and cities across Portugal, 1.5 million people (800,000 in Lisbon) took to the […] Read more »