Deutsche Bank crisis highlights impasse of world capitalism
The spectre of Lehman Brothers is haunting Europe.
Read More#FeesMustFall:Rising anger as mass student protests return
On Tuesday, 20 September, mass student protests erupted across the country after Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande announced that universities can raise tuition fees by up to 8% next year.
Read MoreWomen and Revolution in Pakistan (+ Video)
“As in the entire third world, women, especially poor women workers of Pakistan, are suffering. Sometimes I feel that they need a socialist revolution more than anyone. It is the only way to freedom! “(Anam Patafi)
Read MoreReading guide: Marxist philosophy
“It is, therefore, from the history of nature and human society that the laws of dialectics are abstracted. For they are nothing but the most general laws of these two aspects of historical development, as well as of thought itself.” (Engels)
Read MoreThe local government elections – a shift in the political landscape
The recent local government election results represent a decisive shift in the South African political landscape. It comes in the wake of years of ferocious class struggle in which all the contradictions of South African society have come to the surface in an explosive way. The result of these elections provides us with a snapshot […]
Read MoreUSA: Police Brutality, Racism, and the Politics of Polarization
The grisly images on television and social media are unrelenting: car bombings, nightclub massacres, killer cops, and cop killers. It is what Lenin called capitalist “horror without end”—without end. Not only in “far away” Iraq, Afghanistan, and Mexico, but in some of the most prosperous cities in the richest country on earth. This is the […]
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Zimbabwe: mass protests shakes the regime to its core
Over the last few days the Southern African country of Zimbabwe have experienced escalating protests which shook the Mugabe regime to its core. Sporadic protests have broken out over the last few weeks because of a severe shortage of cash. But over the last few days these protests have increased in intensity. Dramatic scenes have […]
Read More[Video] Brexit crisis: The status quo has failed
In this meeting of Socialist Appeal supporters in London, Alan Woods – editor of In Defence of Marxism – discusses the political earthquake of the Brexit vote, which has sent shockwaves across Britain, Europe, and the whole world.
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Britain in turmoil: Capitalism to blame
Britain is in a state of turmoil. There is a political crisis, which will be followed by a constitutional crisis. Independence is again on the cards in Scotland. There is fear in European establishment that Brexit could spark a continent-wide revolt.
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Britain: Hands off Corbyn! Defeat the Blairite coup!
The fat is on the fire. A right-wing coup is under way to oust Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader. This shabby coup, instigated by Labour’s Tory Tendency, has been prepared a long time ago by those who never accepted his democratic election by an overwhelming majority. They are the Blairites: right-wing Tories who infiltrated the […]
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