August Bebel News Today

The Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei is running in the 2024 European elections to build an international movement against war, social inequality, and fascism.

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The real dilemma of the Left, particularly in the global South and more especially in Africa, started with the end of Cold War and the demise of the erstwhile Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR, that ushered in a period of prolonged doubts and new forms of social conflicts that deflected concerns away from scientific enhancement of dialectical thoughts among the workers, intellectuals and students.

Mitchell Cohen is co-editor emeritus of Dissent in New York and professor emeritus of political science at Bernard Baruch College of the City University of New York. His books include Zion and State: ...

In his book Political Parties, Robert Michels argued that mass movements have a natural tendency to develop undemocratic structures. Michels had some sharp insights into the nature of bureaucracy, but his “iron law of oligarchy” was seriously flawed.

What comes first? Politics or economics? Mike Macnair responds to the criticisms of Robert Schlosser and upholds the general approach of the Marx-Engels team and their strategy of revolutionary patience

Despite tailing the climate crisis movement, some on the left still think of labour as the source of all wealth. Jack Conrad spells out the ABCs for the SWP and the IST

It was the bitter, contentious week before Der Tag (Feb. 24), the day when the West German Bundestag opens its final debate on German rearmament.…

After two years of battlefield carnage there is stalemate. Jack Conrad calls for the left to break from social-pacifism and centrism

There is much talk in establishment circles about the British army being too small and the need to gear up for war against Russia. Under these circumstances the left needs clear programmatic answers, says Jack Conrad