The Paris Commune ended on this day [28 May] in 1871, after just two months in power. How do we explain the longevity and freshness of the memory of a fleeting revolutionary government?
The revolutionary relevance of Rosa Luxemburg
22 April 2021, by“A real re-foundation of communism in the twenty-first century will not be able to do without the revolutionary, Marxist, democratic, socialist and libertarian message of Rosa Luxemburg.”
My journey was no different than others
22 April 2021, byFarooq Tariq, general secretary of the Pakistan Kissan Rabita Committee, a network of peasant organisations in Pakistan, outlines an activist’s life.
The EU and Energy - and the three white elephants
22 April 2021, byOne got the feeling that Frans Timmermans came flying in on a white elephant when he presented the EU solution for the future ’green’ economy on 8 July: Hydrogen – the fuel that can be produced cleanly and must be used in the new hydrogen economy. Unfortunately, the road to the hydrogen economy is paved with CO2 emissions – and the EU solution has both economics, as well as natural laws, against it.
Western Imperialism and the Role of Sub-imperialism in the Global South
22 April 2021, by , ,“As seen above, multinational corporations from BRICS countries, as well as projects financed by BRICS institutions, are reinforcing accumulation patterns that are socially and environmentally predatory, destroying the forms of life and work of populations in their territories. In order to overcome this predicament, South-South relations must be built with profound respect for counter-hegemonic social forces in these countries, as well as at the global scale.”
Hugo Blanco, the Peruvian ecosocialist
22 April 2021, by“Of course I am an ecosocialist, as are the indigenous peoples — even if they do not use that term”.
Beethoven: The first rocker
30 November 2020, byTwo hundred and fifty years after Beethoven’s birth in December 1770 what is the relevance of this great composer?
Engels: theorist of war, theorist of revolution
30 November 2020, byOn the two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Frederick Engels we republish this appreciation.
The crisis triggered by the pandemic and the economic policy of the European Union
16 September 2020, byThis chapter will address the pandemic crisis at the level of political economy and, in particular, the fundamental decisions that the European Union is adopting, whose measures will take precise form once its particular institutional procedure is completed.
Analysing global capitalism
24 August 2020, bySocialist Resistance and Mutiny are organisations in Britain which are both part of a process of forming a wider organisation which has the provisional name of Anti-Capitalist Resistance. Over the past six months, Mutiny has had a dialogue with American Marxist theorist William I Robinson. Phil Hearse, a Mutiny member who also supports Socialist Resistance, wrote a ‘presentation’ of Robinson for SR members, strongly supporting some of his ideas, while raising concerns about imperialism and Robinson’s ideas about a ‘transnational capitalist’ class’. We publish this below, together with a rejoinder from William I Robinson.