26 January
Zofia Malisz (Razem, Poland): ‘There are several imperialisms at play in our part of Europe and we cannot afford to take one side over the other’
23 January
France: Massive rejection of the Macron-Borne reform of the pension system
23 January
Neocolonial wastelands
23 January
From mobilization to revolution: World War I in three slogans
19 January
War and resistance under Putin: An interview with Russian Socialist Movement's Kirill Medvedev
19 January
Call for solidarity actions with anti-war and anti-fascist activists in Russia
19 January
Ukraine: We need to talk about Volodymyr
14 January
Russia's invasion of Ukraine: a response to Renfrey Clarke
11 January
Peace, Peace! But in Colombia, there is no peace
11 January
Brazil's 'Capitol Hill riots’: Confront the fascists, without truce or amnesty
08 January
Imperialism and the invasion of Ukraine
08 January
The changing shapes of imperialism after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine

Gramsci

Sport and capitalism -- Would Gramsci go to the footy?

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Labor PM Bob Hawke laud's tycoon Alan Bond's victory in the 1983 America's Cup.

No Pain, No Gain? Sport and Australian Culture
By Dr Jim McKay
Prentice Hall, 1991. 189 pages.

Review by Phil Shannon

Sport tells lies. According to Jim McKay, sport is a social prop to the domination of capitalist ideas and values. Fundamental to the maintenance of this dominance are the mass media, which ``selectively articulate capitalist rationality, masculine hegemony, Eurocentric racism, militaristic nationalism and liberal values'' -- a toxic mix of ideological viruses.

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Gramsci

How anarchists, syndicalists, socialists and IWW militants were drawn to Bolshevism: four case studies

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William Dudley (Big Bill) Haywood, US labour movement leader, marching with strikers in Lowell, Massachusetts, circa 1912.

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Special coverage: Understanding Putin's war on Ukraine

Since Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine in February, LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal has sought to carry a range of views from the socialist left to help understand the significance of this event. Particular attention has been paid to the voices of Ukrainian and Russian leftists who are at the forefront of resisting this invasion.

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