Communist Manifesto

Intellectual and political lessons of ‘The Communist Manifesto’ for our time

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ Communist Manifesto was published in February, 1848. It is truly a part of what Marx called world literature that capitalism has given rise to. The Manifesto is a call to revolutionary action.

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Oppression and genocide in Sri Lanka and Palestine

Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the wealth of others — the empires and their native overseers. In colonial and anti-colonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison. 

Australian Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather: ‘Our housing campaign leaves us stronger for the next fight’

Australian Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather: ‘Our housing campaign leaves us stronger for the next fight’

Max Chandler-Mather reflects on his experiences in parliament so far as an “outsider”, the strengths and weaknesses of the housing campaign and the challenges involved in pushing for anti-establishment politics from within parliament.
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Russian Socialist Movement’s Kirill Medvedev on why Putin killed Alexei Navalny and jailed Boris Kagarlitsky

Kirill Medvedev on opposition leader Alexei Navalny's death in prison, the recent jailing of high-profile anti-war socialist Boris Kagarlitsky and how the international left can campaign against President Vladimir Putin’s repressive regime.
“Criminals Know their Service Terms, We Don’t”

Russia: ‘Criminals know their service terms, we don’t’

How are the families of fighting reservists changing their attitude toward authorities? And why is the Kremlin reluctant to persecute them? Nikolay Sukhanov seeks answers to these questions.
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Joseph Daher: Middle East tensions grow

Joseph Daher — Faced with the violence of the Israeli occupying army and supported by its Western imperialist allies, the people of Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon face the growing risks of a more deadly regional conflagration.
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Rebuilding Die Linke

Heinz Bierbaum & Ines Schwerdtner — Can Germany’s only democratic socialist party recover lost momentum after a damaging split?
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Indonesia: Line of succession

John Sidel — In Indonesia, the third most populous – and largest majority-Muslim – democracy in the world, a notoriously sinister and volatile figure is now set to take office.
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India: Elections 2024 — Modi game plan versus people’s agenda

CPI(ML) Liberation — Let us strengthen campaigns on the ground to set the people's agenda for the 2024 elections.
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Russian Socialist Movement: ‘Stop the war’ has to mean ‘death to the dictatorship’

Russian Socialist Movement — Two years ago, Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This was not a response to any military threat posed by Ukraine or NATO: it was an attempt to subjugate a neighboring country that Putin simply believes should not exist.
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[Updated] Solidarity statements on the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine

Solidarity statements released by the Fourth International, Ukraine Solidarity Network (US), European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine, and left elected representatives on the second anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
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Alexei Navalny was a Russian hero

Ilya Matveev — Alexei Navalny must be recognized for what he was: a giant of anti-authoritarian politics and nonviolent resistance.