Hugo Blanco: A man who loved humanity and Mother Earth
Latin America sows a great soul, who defended the rights of the peasantry, indigenous peoples and Mother Earth, founded the National Agrarian Confederation (CNA) and made the long-awaited Agrarian Reform in Peru a reality.
United States: MAGA authoritarian rule or Third Reconstruction?
Max Elbaum — An authoritarian bloc with a fascist core is driving for control of all branches of the federal government; the rest is detail
'Prigozhin's March': What was it all about?
Posle’s editorial collective on Wagner’s mutiny and its consequences.
Critical comments on Kohei Saito’s view of ‘degrowth communism’
David Schwartzman argues it is essential to distinguish good growth from bad growth.
Rescue Indian economy from the twin maladies of corporate loot and communal venom
Dipankar Bhattacharya — While India faces major economic challenges, the Modi government does not just deny the hard economic reality but seeks to suppress it by sharpening communal polarisation and scapegoating minorities across India.
The rise and fall (and rise and fall) of the Egyptian left – Part 5
Phil Butland and Helena Zohdi interview Hossam el-Hamalawy about the history of the Egyptian Left.
Book your tickets to Ecosocialism 2023
LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal is sponsoring Ecosocialism 2023, a two day conference being held at Victorian Trades Hall in Naarm/Melbourne (Australia) over July 1-2.
Climate collapse threatens slide to fascism and war
Phil Hearse argues that climate catastrophe will massively boost the number of refugees, making immigration even more central to the politics of the Global North.
India: The challenge of opposition unity
CPI(ML) Liberation — If India has to be saved from lapsing into a full-scale electoral autocracy where the ruling BJP dreams of ruling for 50 years and subjecting multi-party democracy to a single-party straitjacket, a united and assertive political opposition is a must.
The idea of degrowth communism was Marx’s last breakthrough — and perhaps most important
Peter Boyle — While researching later volumes of 'Capital', Marx began to realize that it wouldn’t be enough to repurpose capitalist growth for human ends. Instead, to heal metabolic rifts in nature, a communist society would need to slow down and touch grass.
Sweden in NATO — And then what?
Jonas Sjöstedt — The Left is correct to oppose the military alliance, but must now stake out a position within it
Why sanctions? A conversation with Gregory Wilpert
Venezuela is the target of a brutal economic blockade. Gregory Wilpert helps us understand why.