Rosa Luxemburg: socialist icon
by Colin Turbett • 100 years ago this month, Rosa Luxemburg was beaten up and shot dead in Berlin by Freikorps members, the forerunners of the Nazis, on the implicit ...
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Pakistan’s most rigged general elections
by Farooq Tariq, Spokesperson, Awami Workers Party, in Pakistan • On 26 July 2018, in his election victory speech, Imran Khan gave a sober talk contrary to his very violent ...
Asbjørn Wahl: ‘pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will’
Norwegian author, trade unionist and activist Asbjørn Wahl spoke to Voice editor Ken Ferguson on some key themes of April’s Voice Forum • The Voice Forum in Edinburgh ...
Catalan movement struggles for united strategy against the Spanish state
by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • “General strike!”, “General strike!”, “General strike!”: in protests across the whole of Catalonia after the March 23 jailing ...
Battle lines in the December 21 Catalan election
by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • The December 21 election in Catalonia, called by Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy, will be a plebiscite on his government’s October 27 ...
The coup against Catalonia: what resistance strategy?
by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • Everyone had been expecting a war of position: the Spanish state would behead the Catalan government, sack its senior executives, purge the ...
Catalonia’s referendum: a triumph for democracy built on people’s power
by Dick Nichols, in Barcelona • Is it possible to have a successful referendum when your country is effectively occupied by 10,000 police and paramilitaries with orders to ...
Left faces crackdown after vibrant G20 protests
by Connor Beaton, in Hamburg • We terrified the establishment at the G20 Summit in Hamburg. Now, they’re fighting back. The Scottish Socialist Party was there—a ...
The left must educate, agitate, organise
by Jenni Gunn • In many years to come, when historians look back at Trump’s (hopefully short) presidency, they will look to the women’s marches in the wake of his ...
Trump, the US election and what lies ahead
by Robert W McChesney, in the United States • For the past eight weeks, almost everyone on the American left—or to use the vernacular, the progressive community—has ...
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