Nelson Mandela

A tarnished halo: Reassessing Nelson Mandela’s legacy 10 years after his death

Dale T McKinley — The tenth anniversary of Nelson Mandela's death provides a fitting opportunity to assess the legacy of a man whose life was, and remains, a source of fulsome praise and inspiration as well as trenchant criticism.
BDS poster

A call from Palestine to the global climate justice movements: Ending #GazaGenocide is a climate issue

On December 9th, the day of action for climate justice, Palestinian BDS National Committee is calling on land, indigenous and climate justice movements to raise their voices for Palestine.
Israeli navy

Changing dynamics of world politics after the Hamas attack on Israel

Karen Yamanaka — The Israel-Hamas war has caused further upheaval in a world order already fraught with tension and confrontation.
A year on, that’s still right. London demonstration, November 2022. Photo by Steve Eason

Defining ecosocialism

Simon Pirani — Making ecosocialism a reality is a huge, many-sided collective task.
8 hour day

India: The fight over the working day

Clifton D' Rozario — The regurgitating of the debate of the length of the working day highlights the capitalist ruling class's relentless effort to take away the eight-hour workday.
Gaza

Gaza: The Zionist genocidal war and its accomplices

Gilbert Achcar — The truth is that the current aggression against Gaza constitutes, in the clearest possible form, a genocidal war that includes mass murder and “ethnic cleansing”.
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Au Loong-Yu (Hong Kong): ‘Opposing US militarisation in the Asia-Pacific should not mean remaining silent on China’s emerging imperialism’

Au Loong-Yu discusses China’s global status and its implications for peace and solidarity activism.
From the river to the sea

‘From the River to the Sea’: Palestine’s historic struggle to share the land versus Israeli rejectionism

Michael Karadjis — The slogan "From the river to the sea", which as been raised at pro-Palestine demonstrations around the world, has attracted a great deal of ignorant criticism.
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Global Ecosocialist Network on COP28: We need to challenge the power of fossil fuel capitalism

The challenge remains to build a people’s climate movement strong enough to challenge the power of fossil fuel capitalism and link up with other social movements to fight for an ecosocialist future.
Reinaldo column

Venezuela: The problem with the representation of the majority

Reinaldo Iturriza looks at the realignment of forces following the Barbados agreement and the lack of representation of the disaffiliated popular masses in Venezuela.
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Far-right electoral victory in the Netherlands

Alex de Jong — That the right-wing won the recent Dutch elections was no surprise. What was surprising was how decisive the share of the far-right was in the overall right-wing victory.
Supporters and activists of what was then called the Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) hold a mass rally, 1 May 2010.

Is Marxism alive in Nepal?

Khagendra Prasai — Ostensibly Communist parties govern the Himalayan republic, but socialism remains a long way off.