“We have to go back to Marx’s premise and goal – the concept of human development.It is no accident that the Communist Manifesto, written in 1848 with Frederick Engels, talked about how the free development of each depends upon the free development of all.
By free development, they meant the development of [...]

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 [...]

“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”

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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 [...]

“You have to resist if you don’t want to perish”
by Binayak Sen
[A body mass index] below 18.5 is regarded as chronic subnutrition.  33% of our adult population, one third of the country, have a body mass index below 18.5.  For me this is a shocking figure. . . .  We [...]

India: A nation of working poor
“The impact of the global financial crisis is already being felt in the country and the poor are worst affected. In the first half of the year the unorganised workers were pressed hard due to high commodity prices and after the global financial crisis they are hit by loss of [...]

by Michael D. Yates
[Excerped from the transcription of the  Keynote speech (mp3) at the conference "How Unions Matter in the New Economy" in Toronto, 28-29 October 2005.]
First, working people want and need good jobs and benefits, but the vision worthy of a struggle to achieve, they need that, too.  People are likely to do great [...]

Speech of W.F.T.U. General Secretary
Com. George Mavrikos at
98th ILC Plenary Session
Geneva June 17th , Assembly Hall, Palais des Nations
a. The economic crisis: the realistic and
necessary targets.
Dear Mr President, Dear colleagues
On behalf of the World Federation of Trade Unions (W.F.T.U.) we believe that the worries, the thoughts and the anger of the world’s working class due [...]

A ten-step guide to workplace organisation from scratch. By Patrick Smith
1 Keep it quiet at first
When faced with mistreatment in the workplace, it is tempting to respond angrily and spontaneously. It is much more effective, however, to step back and think strategically about long-term solutions. Dissent from an individual may result in that person being [...]

by Michael D. Yates
“The “primacy” of organized labour in struggle arises from the fact
that no other group, movement or force in capitalist society is
remotely capable of mounting as effective and formidable a challenge
to the existing structures of power and privilege as it is in the
power of organized labour to mount. In no way is this [...]