Venezuela: The significance of Chavismo's regional elections victory

Jim McIlroy, Steve Ellner, Dario Azzellini and Ricardo Vaz dissect Venezuela’s October 15 regional election results and its significance for the Boliva

Understanding the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar

By Lionel Bopage October 19, 2017
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Spanish state to Catalonia: 'Surrender or we'll take you over'

A meeting of one of the many local Committees to Defend the Referendum t
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Marxist theories of the state played out in Venezuela

By Steve Ellner October 15, 2017 
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The Chimes at Midnight: Trotskyism in the USSR 1926-1938

To the memory of my grandparents, Dorothy and Charlie, who probably wouldn't have approved of

Spanish state moves to end Catalan self-rule after people power saves independence referendum

By Dick Nichols Is it possible to have a successful referendum when your country is ef

'One Hundred Years', a poem by Steve Bloom on the centenary of the Russian Revolution

The poem can be downloaded as a pdf here or read on screen below

The Philippines: On the frontline of Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’

In its first year in operation, Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte’s ‘war on drugs’ has cost more than 13,000 lives and left the country mire