ILO Report : World Unemployment reached highest level on record in 2009 Over half the workers are in vulnerable employment GENEVA (ILO News) – The number of jobless worldwide reached nearly 212 million in 2009 following an unprecedented increase of 34 million compared to [...]
Lalgarh – the name resonates in the hearts and minds of struggling people all over India: adivasis and dalits, farmers and fisherfolk, workers and students. In West Bengal it has taken its place along with Singur and Nandigram in songs and slogans of resolve and resistance. Wherever people are fighting for their livelihoods and their [...]
“Capitalist triangle” is private ownership of the means of production, the exploitation of wage labourers, for the purpose of profits. “Elementary triangle of socialism” is units of social property, social production organised by workers, for satisfaction of communal needs and purposes By Michael A. Lebowitz On May Day 2005, I marched with workers in Caracas. [...]
“Capitalist civilization may be generating a terminal crisis for the entire anthropocene era in earth history, which would inevitably spell, not only the demise of capitalism, but—if we do not change course—civilization as a whole. In the new speculative era, all that is solid is melting in air. In these difficult and dangerous times, there [...]
* Marx talked about the “common ruin of the contending classes,” i.e. barbarism, as a possible outcome. Not only is this a possible result of the current capitalist civilization, I think that the environmental problem suggests that it may very well be the most likely result. All existing trends point in that direction. An actual environmental [...]
The aim revolutionary worldwide struggle is “to create for all people such a condition that everyone can freely develop his human nature and live in a human relationship with his neighbors, and has no need to fear any violent shattering of his condition. Today, the choice between a violent shattering of the human condition and the [...]
“If we want to construct a new international it requires a new left culture. Because if the same parties with all the faults that they have from the past are going to join in this international, without overcoming their deviations, it could transform itself into a fifth bureaucratic International” by Marta Harnecker Marta Harnecker remains [...]
Working people around the world who are attracted to the Fifth Socialist International see glimmers of hope and the possibility of historical transformation, and they are willing to commit themselves to the struggle. These are the people who make history. January 15, 2010 — Critics who have planted themselves firmly on the sidelines have been [...]
Stand up, all victims of oppression For the tyrants fear your might Dont cling so hard to your possessions For you have nothing, if you have no rights Let racist ignorance be ended For respect makes the empires fall Freedom is merely privilege extended Unless enjoyed by one and all Chorus: So come brothers and [...]
for introducing a different way of thinking about the world, about war, about human rights, about equality, for getting more and more people to think that way, and also for getting more people to realize that power, which rests so far in the hands of people with wealth and guns, ultimately rests on people themselves, [...]