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Feminism in Italy and the US Return to Demonizing Putin!

Maria Cernat - Boyan Stanislasvski
Gender issues
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Italy was the EU country that significantly suffered the Pandemics for quite a while. It was the first Western European country to implement national lockdown. After the three years Giuseppe Conti, an independent technocrat that...

Paris Commune 150

Michael Roberts
Analysis
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Today is the 150th anniversary of the beginning of the Paris Commune. The Commune (Council) was formed as result of what should be considered the first uprising and revolution led by the working class in...

Crisis of the left

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Analysis
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There are very few people on the Left who are ready to accept the fact that the Left movement has been facing a crisis of ideology since the collapse of the Soviet Bloc and Social...

Bulgarian justice is a litmus test for developments in society

Vladimir Mitev
Analysis
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The Bulgarian judiciary has been at the centre of political talks and clashes for more than nine months since the protests began in the summer of 2020. They erupted after prosecutors stormed the president's office,...

Luxemburg 150

Michael Roberts
Analysis
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Yesterday, 5 March 2021, was the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Luxemburg, the great revolutionary socialist of the Polish-German labour movement. Luxemburg’s contribution to socialist ideas and to the struggle to replace capitalism is...

Ailbhe Smyth: “We need a discussion about abortion on a pan-European scale, linked to a disc..

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
Citizens Movements
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Ailbhe Smyth co-founded the Coalition to Repeal the 8th Amendment in 2013, a broad civil society platform to fight for the removal of the near-total ban on abortion inserted in the Irish Constitution in 1983. The Coalition went...

University Spiralists and Aca-Zombies

Thomas Klikauer - Norman Simms
Analysis
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As in many places where the ideology of neoliberalism holds sway, universities have been contaminated with the self-invented business imperatives of neoliberalism. For the better part of the last forty years, the conversion of universities...

The Birth of Marxism in France: Remembering the Paris Commune and Jules Guesde

Jean-Numa Ducange
France
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Guesde (1845-1922) introduced Marxism to France and contributed to building the Socialist Party in the north of the country, where the left, socialism, and then later communism became very strong. He fought in solidarity with...

Who was Rosa Luxemburg?

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Germamy
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While family has always played a significant role in research on Marx, Engels and Lenin, we knew relatively little about the Luxemburg (or, more accurately, Luxenburg) family until a recently published account by Holger Politt...

Victoria Tesoriero: ”The struggle for women’s rights is a struggle for social justice.”

Małgorzata Kulbaczewska-Figat
Citizens Movements
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Victoria Tesoriero was one of the leading activists of the National Campaign for the Right to Legal, Safe and Free Abortion (Campaña por el Derecho al Aborto Legal, Seguro y Gratuito). Launched in 2005, more...