Socialism
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Visioning Otherwise: Imagining a World Without Capitalism
This presentation and discussion address some of the lessons and limitations of historic and contemporary (Canadian and international) visions of a world without capitalism. The panel reflects on different perspectives and the diversity of our vision of a ‘new politics’ – from Canadian working class history to indigenous feminism. Continue reading
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Socialism, Public Criticism and the Democratic Path By Marta Harnecker
Twenty years ago, when the Berlin Wall fell, there was no revolution foreseeable on the horizon. However, it didn’t take long before a process began to emerge in Latin America with Hugo Chávez. We have gone on to form governments with anti-neoliberal programs, though not all of them are putting an anti-neoliberal economics in practice. Continue reading
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Bolivia Rising: Communitarian Socialism in Bolivia By Roger Burbach
During the past decade Latin America has become a scene of hope and expectations as its leaders and social movements have raised the banner of twenty-first century socialism in a world ravished by imperial adventures and economic disasters. Proponents of the new socialism assert that it will break with the state-centered socialism of the last… Continue reading
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UK: Proportional representation and Brown’s opportunist ploy By Moshe Machover
In what looked suspiciously like a deathbed conversion, Gordon Brown has pushed through the House of Commons a Constitutional and Governance Bill, one clause of which provides for a referendum on electoral reform, to be held within a year following the forthcoming general election. In the referendum, voters will be asked to decide whether the… Continue reading
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For Venezuela, There is No Going Back – A Discussion with Federico Fuentes and Kiraz Janicke
As Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution enters a new decade of struggle and defiantly advances toward its goal of ‘21st Century Socialism,’ serious challenges to the future of the process emerging from both inside and outside the country still abound. As a result, key questions surrounding Venezuela’s mounting tensions with the West, the role played by its… Continue reading
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The Emilia-Romagna Coops: A Market Without Capitalists By Frances Moore Lappe
A market economy and capitalism are synonymous — or at least joined at the hip. That’s what most Americans grow up assuming. But it is not necessarily so. Capitalism — control by those supplying the capital in order to return wealth to shareholders — is only one way to drive a market. Continue reading
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Who Is To Be Master? What Happens When Workers Occupy Factories
Following are two articles on what debates break out when workers occupy or take ownership of factories. The first is from a single case in Brazil, the second from an earlier regionwide meeting on the topic in Venezuela. I think these are examples of the unity and tension in what Gramsci called ‘wars of position’… Continue reading
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Proposal for a Participatory Socialist International
We, the undersigned, endorse the idea of a new International and urge that its creation include assessing, refining, augmenting, and then implementing as many of the following points as the International’s participants themselves, after due deliberation, decide mutually agreeable Continue reading
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Challenge the War Criminals By Morris William
With its reformist strategy for a socialism within capitalism, the British Labour Party has always been a party fit for imperialism. After its chauvinist backing of the inter-imperialist war of 1914-18, it has supported colonial wars when in opposition and launched them when in government. Continue reading
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Remembering Howard Zinn (1922 – 2010) By Stephen Lendman
Distinguished scholar, author, political scientist, people`s historian, activist, and son of blue-collar immigrant parents, Zinn was born on August 24, 1922 in Brooklyn, New York and died in Santa Monica, CA of a reported heart attack while swimming on January 27. He’s survived by two children, Myla Kabat-Zinn and Jeff Zinn, and five grandchildren. Continue reading
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An assessment of the Respect conference By Alan Thornett
The Respect conference could have been a very positive event. It was attended by over 200 members and was located in Salma Yaqoob’s constituency of Sparkbrook and Small Heath in Birmingham where she won 27% of the vote in the last general election and where she stands a very good chance of winning in the… Continue reading
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Carl Dix: No good for people until revolution overthrows capitalism
Communist America is an oxymoron – or is it? Carl Dix a representative of America’s Revolutionary Communist Party thinks that political change IS possible in the US. He spoke to RT’s Anastasia Churkina. Continue reading
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Venezuela: The Battle for Workers' Control
Video: Produced as part of Centro Internacional Miranda’s Transformative Practice and Human Development, directed by Michael Lebowitz. Continue reading
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Tim Wise: Socialism as the New Black Bogeyman – Red-Baiting and Racism
11 August, 2009 — Counterpunch Throughout the first six months of his administration, President Obama–perhaps one of the most politically cautious leaders in contemporary history–has been routinely portrayed as a radical by his opponents on the far-right. In particular, persons who have apparently never actually studied Marxism (or if they did, managed to somehow find Continue reading
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Venezuela: Socialist Party Prepares for “Transition to Socialism” By Federico Fuentes
On August 1, United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV) members across the country participated in 1556 local assemblies to discuss the reorganisation of the party’s base into local patrols. This push to strengthen revolutionary organising comes at a time when attacks on Venezuela’s revolutionary process revolution “from outside and within have intensified”, Venezuelan President Hugo… Continue reading
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Arab Communism: Some Reasons for Its Fall By As ‘ad AbuKhalil
The Arab Left didn’t just collapse of its own accord, and the method of its collapse was not fast or sudden. A generation of Arabs today forget that the Arab communist parties in Iraq and in Sudan, for example, were the biggest Arab parties, and without artificial support from the military establishment in those countries.… Continue reading
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Transcending Pessimism: Rekindling Socialist Imagination By Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin
Socialists are living through a unique period: the collapse of communism and the complete abnegation by social democratic parties of any vocation for radical change has left us, for the first time in over a century, with no strong organizational focus for our goals. The lacuna we consequently face is, not surprisingly, accompanied by a… Continue reading
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An Ecosocialist Program for South Africa
Our struggle for justice and equality is global. The international crisis of capitalism has seen massive bail-outs of banks and corporations using money from the working class and the poor. Millions of people are breaking with the ideas of the free market and capitalism. We stand in solidarity with all the people across the globe… Continue reading
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Mondragón Coops: Worker-Operatives Decide How to Ride Out a Downturn By Georgia Kelly and Shaula Massena
Here’s how it played out when one of the Mondragón cooperatives fell on hard times. The worker/owners and the managers met to review their options. After three days of meetings, the worker/owners agreed that 20 percent of the workforce would leave their jobs for a year, during which they would continue to receive 80 percent… Continue reading
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British Ecosocialists Plan ‘Climate & Capitalism’ Seminar
Planned for Saturday September 12, Climate and Capitalism is the first seminar organised jointly by Green Left and Socialist Resistance, the ecosocialist currents in two of Britain’s left parties, the Greens and Respect. This energetic and open day of discussion will bring experts, campaigners, radical activists and others together. The event will be in the… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 