An extremely important aspect of Vladimir Putin’s speech on the night of 21 February 2022, relayed by cable television and simultaneously translated into many languages, thus reaching a very wide array of audiences worldwide, was his long…
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Naming matters. So let us start with correctly naming the current crisis: The question is not about Russia threatening Ukraine. Rather, the question is that Russia decided to put a stop to the threat of imperialism with a military barrier…
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The series of events of 6th January 2021 in the United States that culminated in the storming of Congress is, to refer to a metaphor Lenin used in an entirely different context, “a flash of lightning which threw more of a glare on reality…
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In 1991, however, upon the heels of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of all the central and east European workers’ states, came the dissolution of the Soviet state, still the most advanced and representative of the family. This…
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In the process I will defend the idea that the USSR as a state form constituted a revolutionary rupture with respect to the state form of the nation-state in the modern era. It is the first state in the modern era, and the only one so far,…
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An abuse of such proportions of a religious belief for purely material interests ought to be hard to find in history. The declaration by Tayyip Erdoğan, the principal architect of the free-fall of the Turkish Lira, of interest as nass …
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Revolutions are those moments in history when treading the middle ground is the most suicidal road. The experience of the Sudanese revolution has shown this much more clearly than many other revolutions. The Sudanese Professionals…
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Disciplined, fed with the lowliest ideological garbage, entranced by the feeling of superiority that derives from the erstwhile colonial feats of European civilisation and of their own country, full of rage against the immigrant and the…
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Marx’s reference to Hegel has been proven right once more: every historically significant event takes place twice – first as tragedy, then as farce! The Egyptian Revolution had ended in tragedy. It seems like the imperialist coup d’Etat in…
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The return of the historic leaders of the Marxist movement to the centre of historical reflection may imply different things in the case of different figures. For someone like Antonio Gramsci, long abused by the liberal left and thoroughly…
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So the peoples’ rebellion has come back to the United States of America. And what a comeback! At the time of writing, the people have been on the streets for three weeks already, have united black and white (and Latino/a and Asian and all…
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21st century Marxism will, sooner or later, revive this noble tradition in Marxism. This is what we call revolutionary Marxism. Whoever stands on the ground of the first four congresses of the Communist International, as did Mustafa Suphi …
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Το πρώτο κύμα της αραβικής επανάστασης που ξέσπασε στη Μέση Ανατολή και τη Βόρεια Αφρική μεταξύ 2011 και 2013 έχει πολλές συμβολικές ημερομηνίες. Αλλά ίσως η σημαντικότερη είναι η 25η Ιανουαρίου, όταν, στον απόηχο της νίκης της…
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The Democratic Socialists of America has been caught asleep. No amount of trickery can hide that simple fact.
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Η Βαλκανική επανάσταση και η παγκόσμια επανάσταση θα φέρουν χώρες μαζί στην προσπάθειά τους να εκπαιδεύσουν τις νέες γενιές της εργατικής τάξης όχι μόνο στο πεδίο της αδελφοσύνης των εθνών και θρησκειών αλλά επίσης στις τέχνες, την μουσική…
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1. Η λαϊκή εξέγερση επέστρεψε στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής. Και τι επιστροφή! Τη στιγμή που γράφουμε αυτές τις θέσεις*, ο λαός είναι ήδη στους δρόμους εδώ και τρεις εβδομάδες, έχουν ενωθεί Μαύροι και Λευκοί (και Λατίνοι, Λατίνες…
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So the peoples’ rebellion has come back to the United States of America. And what a comeback! At the time of writing, the people have been on the streets for three weeks already, have united black and white (and Latino/a and Asian and all…
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Exactly 50 years ago, Turkey was shaken by a workers’ insurgency that still stands as the apogee of working class militancy in the country’s history. The workers of Istanbul and the neighbouring cities of Gebze and Izmit occupied the…
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Nobody lives a miserable existence, remaining jobless or even homeless and uncertain of their future. Hence the overall public health picture is incomparably better under socialism than under the richest capitalist country. Even in the…
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Wall Street got shut down for the second time within four days on Thursday, March 12th. If the largest based index among the major three, S&P 500, falls by 7%, an automatic mechanism called the “circuit breaker” shuts down the stock market…
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