By Socialist Struggle India 23 November 2024 On October 27, famous Tamil film actor Thalapathy ‘Vijay’ held the first public rally of his new political party, Thamizhaga Vetri Kazhagam (TVK), which he launched in February this year. A huge crowd of several hundred thousands, prominently featuring young people and first-time voters, gathered in Tamil Nadu’s […]
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By Donal Devlin 10 December 2024 “The choice of the Irish people is clear: they want more of the same”. This was the immediate and typically superficial reaction from Irish Times political editor Pat Leahy about the outcome of the general election in Ireland. Much of the establishment media followed suit. Similarly, Fianna Fáil (FF) and Fine
The brutal over-half-century-long Assad-dictatorship has fallen in Syria. Thousands and thousands of political prisoners have been able to reunite with their families, many after years during which they were thought dead. Millions more who were internally displaced are rejoicing as they reunite with their families. The grip of fear losing its hold on people has
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By Walter Chambers 5 December 2024 The suffering caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 and the subsequent conflict has been pushed out of the global headlines by the horrific genocide in Gaza, but it is no less horrific. The number of dead and wounded, both military and civilian, now far exceeds
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By Serge Jordan 4 December 2024 Dramatic events have shaken South Korea in the past 24 hours, plunging the country into a major political crisis. Right-wing President Yoon Suk Yeol declared martial law late Tuesday, accusing opposition parties of pro-North Korean sympathies and pledging to eliminate “anti-state elements”. Yet this desperate authoritarian gamble backfired spectacularly,
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By Serge Jordan 29 October 2024 For more than a year, the world has been watching in horror in real-time as the Gaza Strip has been enduring one of the most destructive and merciless bombing campaigns in history—an unrelenting assault of genocidal proportions. Yet the machinery of death and destruction wielded by the Israeli State
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Harper Cleves 23 October 2024 Ears bandaged in a Van Gogh-esque homage to Trump’s injury in a summer assassination attempt; attendees of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) decked out in white as a nod to the suffragettes; live streamed debates where the moderator has to clarify in real time that “murdering infants is illegal in
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By SocialistIndia.org 11 October 2024 More than 1,500 workers at Samsung Electronics’ plant in Sriperumbudur, on the outskirts of Chennai, have been on an indefinite strike for over a month, standing firm in their demand for the registration and recognition of their newly-formed union, the Samsung India Labour Welfare Union (SIWU), as well as for
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By Aoife Coppinger 16 September 2024 Algerian boxer Imane Khelif went on to win gold at the Paris Olympics, despite the scrutiny and abuse she was subjected to by far-right and transphobic politicians, billionaires and news outlets. Khelif proves that cis women are also not safe from the policing of femininity typically aimed at transgender
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By Thomas Carmichael 21 June 2024 On the morning of 18 June 1984, a scorching summer’s day, 5,000 striking miners gathered on the fields overlooking the Orgreave Coking Works in South Yorkshire. It would become one of the most infamous days in Britain’s industrial history. The 1984-85 Miners’ Strike was at its height with the
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By Steph Lacey 4 September 2024 Directed by Margo Harkin, Stolen is a chilling account of the Magdalene Laundries, where Irish women and girls were sent for engaging in a sexual relationship that a parent or priest didn’t approve of, or more often, for being victims of rape, having a disability etc. – “social regressions” that didn’t
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By James McCabe 24 August 2024 It would be difficult to imagine an event that rocked the world and changed the course of history to the extent that the Russian Revolution did. No film could hope to capture the magnitude of such an upending of social relations. Plus, the quality of film footage from this
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