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A recent article by Liza Featherstone is a public relations ploy aimed at resurrecting Ocasio-Cortez’s and the DSA’s failing image as “socialist.”

Picture: 27 November 1932, Trotsky speaking in Copenhagen at the invitation of Social Democratic students. His last public speech in front of a live audience. The words of the title were uttered by Ramsay MacDonald, Labour Prime Minister at a cabinet meeting in 1929. Leon Trotsky’s application for political asylum in Britain (1929-30)

The 1917 revolution was one of the greatest democratic moments in history. The Bolshevik Party, which is now lyingly identified in both outright bourgeois and hypocritical Labour Party- style anti-socialist propaganda, as an enemy of democracy, was, above all else, the great force for democracy in the Russia of 1917. It was a force, moreover, without which the workers and peasants of the former Tsarist empire would have been crushed and their drive for democratic self-rule drowned in blood. Thes...

They say that history doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme. As I've seen Volodymir Zelensky be venerated by various liberals of the world for standing up against Russia, I kept thinking of another prominent Jewish Ukrainian who took a similar stand over a century ago:

They say that history doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme. As I've seen Volodymir Zelensky be venerated by various liberals of the world for standing up against Russia, I kept thinking of another prominent Jewish Ukrainian who took a similar stand over a century ago:

SEP congress was held under extraordinary political conditions in Sri Lanka, amid an immense global crisis of capitalism, intensified by the pandemic, the US-NATO proxy war against Russia and the international upsurge of the class struggle.

The Democratic Socialists of America, the largest socialist organization in the United States, which with about 75,000 members (down from 94,000) in more than 200 chapters, has been unable to play any significant role regarding Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Watching a man I called the Red Cowboy strut through St Marks Place in Y-fronts and waistcoat, I saw what it means to be defiant and outrageous. I loved it

The TUC Left won a victory over the TUC Right last week. As a result, the TUC is sending a delegation to the so-called Congress of the so-called trade unions of the USSR _ that is, to the 'Congress' of the police state labour fronts misnamed trade unions which have the job of helping the Russian totalitarian state regiment, repress and control the Soviet working class.

Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA We are sitting on a massive, active, rumbling volcano which will explode soon. What we saw on May 9th was the first spewing of lava. The causes are quite well-known and must be addressed but the most pressing threat is that the combination of unprecedented material hardship, perception of privilege, understandable rage […]