By Walter Chambers, 27 March 2025 The massive protests that have already lasted six days in Istanbul, the city that sits on the edge of Europe are a vivid reminder of the volatility of this whole region. Yet the mainstream and even left media pay scant attention to what is happening. Already this year barely […]
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It’s now over four years since the Tatmadaw, Myanmar’s military overthrew the elected government. The coup met widespread resistance and escalated into a brutal civil war. PRMI reporters spoke to the Marxist journalist and historian Phyo Win Latt. 24 March 2025 PRMI: With the world news dominated by the Genocide in Gaza, war in Ukraine,
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By Charlie Jean McKeown, Socialist Party Ireland 27 March 2025 Serbia has been captured by anti-corruption protests for four months, which are student-led, and have now gained an untameable momentum. On 1 November last year, the newly “renovated” concrete canopy of Novi Sad train station collapsed, killing 15 and severely injuring two more. The open
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By Alternativa Socialista, PRMI in Mexico. 24 March 2025 Trump’s accession to the US presidency poses a threat to Latin America. And it breeds new dangers in a world plagued by war, climate change, the rise of the far right and the economic crisis. The increase in tariffs on Mexican products, despite the rhetoric of
Mexico: Need to unite against the ruthless bourgeoisie and imperialism Read More »
By Serge Jordan, PRMI. 19 March 2025 In the dead of night, in the midst of Ramadan, the Israeli regime resumed its mass bombing of Gaza, obliterating any remaining semblance of holding onto what was already an increasingly precarious and threatened ceasefire. The claim that Israel merely targeted Hamas operatives in this new barrage of
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Joint statement by Project for a Revolutionary Marxist International Sri Lanka and Socialist India Warning: the content within refers to harrowing cases of sexual assault, and could be potentially triggering. Rage is boiling over across South Asia as women refuse to be silent in the face of repeated horrific acts of sexual violence. Last Monday,
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Daniel Green, PRMI in US. 17 March 2025 All across the United States of America, working class people of all political stripes have reached an unprecedented unity in support of the Robin Hood-like character of suspected assassin Luigi Mangione, accused of shooting UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Luigi, who suffered from chronic pain and whose mother
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Editorial from the latest issue of The Socialist, Ireland. 14 March 2025 As we go to print, Mahmoud Khalil, a key organiser of the Palestine solidarity encampment in Columbia University in New York City, has been arrested and is being threatened with deportation from the United States. This is despite possessing a Green Card, giving
Free Mahmoud Khalil! Free Palestine! End the genocide now! Read More »
To mark the anniversary of the death of Karl Marx, we republish the Speech delivered at his grave by Frederick Engels March 17 1883. From the archive, 14 March 2025 On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased to think. He had been left alone
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14 March 1883 Karl Marx died. In truth, the validity of Marx’s theory of class struggle has been borne out by the history of the working-class movement. Eddie McCabe Socialist Party Ireland first published in 2018, 14 March 2025 Without the labour power of workers, capitalists can’t make profits. The system can’t function. Of all
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By James McCabe, Socialist Party Ireland 14 March 2025 “We’re done catering to Wall Street; we’ll commit to the working man”. JD Vance uttered these words in his first speech as Trump’s vice-presidential candidate in July 2024. Fast forward six months, as Vance’s motorcade pulled up to the 10,000 square foot home of his billionaire
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By Serge Jordan, 11 March 2025 The last few days in Syria have brought another grim chapter in the country’s long and bloody crisis. More than 1,000 people, the majority civilians, were slaughtered in the western coastal areas in three days of clashes and sectarian revenge killings. The gruesome images of executions have flooded social
Syria: Horrific sectarian violence flares—but workers show another way Read More »