Opportunism has had an undisputed stranglehold on the labor movement for several decades since the overthrow of the USSR. A “United States of Europe” has been erected, just as Lenin warned. A new American empire has taken up the flag of the Third Reich, just as Foster warned. As a [...]
Cultural Pseudo-Marxism The term “Cultural Marxism” is frequently used in political discussions, but its meaning is obscure. Those on the Right claim that it signifies the infiltration of Western academia by Jewish Marxists from the Frankfurt School. They argue that their goal is to undermine the United States and Europe [...]
There are two problems with our unions today. On the one hand there is a systematic oppression of class-oriented voices in some unions which are tightly controlled by the Democrats. On the other hand, there is a growing frustration and reaction to the lack of democracy in our unions sometimes [...]
Workers’ living standards have declined by more than 8% in the Ukraine since the fascists took power in 2014: That is, the national income share of the lowest quintile of the population (mainly composed of wage workers) in proportion to the richest quintile (Q5/Q1), declined more than 8% from 2014 [...]
Spending on construction projects for manufacturing plants in the US has almost doubled over the past year in real dollars, reports the US Treasury Department (see Figure 1).[1] It appears that the US may be returning to an emphasis on manufacturing. Treasury says, “The boom is principally driven by construction [...]
Document adopted at the International Anti-Fascist Forum in Minsk, April 22, 2023 We, the participants in the International Anti-Fascist Forum from the countries of Asia, America and Europe, have gathered in Minsk to say a firm “No!” to war and reaction, neo-Fascism and oppression. We have met in the land [...]
Finance Capital’s Looting And Wrecking Of The World Economy Careening down narrow mountain roads, you are a passenger in a vehicle driven by a madman whose every move brings you closer to disaster. That’s the West’s economy and its stewards in a nutshell. Maybe collapse will be avoided by the [...]
In 1972, Yu Kuang-chung, a celebrated poet in Taiwan, published his poem “Nostalgia”, in which he wrote about his agony and frustration in being separated from his family on the mainland for more than 20 years. “And now, nostalgia is a coastline, a shallow strait. I on this side, the [...]
from Mastering Bolshevism In carrying on a struggle against the Trotskyite agents, our Party comrades did not notice, they overlooked the fact, that present day Trotskyism is no longer what it was, let us say, seven or eight years ago; that Trotskyism and the Trotskyites have passed through a serious [...]
As the molecules in steel becomes agitated it results in a red hot metal. Through this process the steel becomes tempered and purified. As the metal heats up bubbles appear on the surface, and in short order many of them disappear. Social and political movements in a sense develop in [...]