Clifton

Indian labour lawyer Clifton D’Rozario to speak at Ecosocialism 2023

Clifton D’Rozario will visit Australia to address the Ecosocialism 2023 conference over July 1–2 in Naarm/Melbourne.

Karnataka elections

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation: Karnataka, the gateway to South India, rejects BJP!

Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation (CPIML) — We congratulate the people of Karnataka for delivering a decisive defeat to the anti-people and divisive BJP
Farooq Tariq Ecosocialism

Farooq Tariq (Pakistan): Imran Khan arrested, what next?

Farooq Tariq — The situation in Pakistan is highly unstable and volatile, with political and economic crises intensifying and exacerbating each other.
Dollar Yuan

Inter-imperialist rivalry and the specter of de-dollarization: On the decline of the US Dollar since the start of the Ukraine War

Michael Pröbsting — Many economists are discussing the question of which currency will replace the dollar or, more concretely, if China’s yuan could become the new leading currency. As we recently discussed elsewhere, this question is misleading.
Russian communist party

‘Putin's regime is not subject to evolution’: An interview with Russian socialist Ilya Budraitskis

Ilya Budraitskis explains the left’s vision of decentralized governance and why Russia’s Communist Party must exit together with Putin.
Zhanar Sekerbayeva

Kazakhstan: Interview with Zhanar Sekerbayeva

Russian Federation's Feminist Anti-War Resistance speaks with Zhanar Sekerbayeva, a feminist, human rights defender, LGBTIQ+ activist and co-founder of the “Feminita” Kazakhstan Feminist Initiative
Ecosocialism 2023

Ecosocialism 2023 to discuss costs of new arms race

Peter Boyle — The ecological and social impacts of a new surge in global military spending will one of the discussions at the Ecosocialism 2023 conference in Naarm/Melbourne on July 1–2.
Michael Lebowitz

Completing Marx’s Project: An Interview with Michael A. Lebowitz

In this interview with Mark Fischer, Michael A. Lebowitz, the author of 'Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class', argues that 'Capital', taken alone, is one-sided, given Marx’s intention to also write a book on wage-labor. 
Environmental disaster

Malaysia: Class struggle in the face of environmental disasters

Huei Ting and Audrey Chan — Major floods and other environmental disasters are a call for greater class consciousness and better national policies to mitigate the devastating effects of extreme weather due to climate change.
Ukrainian soldiers

What is the European left saying about the Ukraine war?

Chris Maisano surveys the views and policies of left-wing parties in Europe regarding the Ukraine war.
Spectre

Marxism for the age of climate emergency: On Kohei Saito's degrowth communism

Gareth Dale — Kohei Saito’s 2020 book Capital in the Anthropocene became a surprise bestseller in Japan, demonstrating a wider thirst for anti-capitalist analyses of environmental catastrophe and a popular openness to degrowth-oriented solutions.
Turkey elections

Challenging authoritarian rule: Turkish elections 2023

Panagiotis Sotiris interviews Sebnem Oguz — The emergence of a new fascism in Turkey is being intensively debated on the political left. In this context, an alliance of the left has formed under the banner of the Green Left Party, with support from other parties in the Labour and Freedom Alliance, with the hopes of a significant breakthrough for the political organization of the oppressed and the left in the election.