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Film Award Season Comes to Moscow The results of two film award ceremonies in Moscow are in. Updated: May 3, 2021 "#dogpoopgirl," based on a true story, nabbed best film at the Moscow International Film Festival Courtesy Moscow International Film Festival The NIKA Awards The Russian film community holds their big awards ceremony every spring, except in 2020 when Moscow was on lockdown during the first wa...

Workers Revolutionary Party WRP General Secretary FRANK SWEENEY addressing the May Day rally ‘IT IS our international duty to organise the overthrow of the capitalist system here in Britain,’ WRP General Secretary Frank Sweeney told the 100-strong Workers Revolutionary Party and Young Socialists May Day Rally in Kensington Memorial Park, west London on Saturday afternoon. Sweeney said: ‘This May Day we especially send support to the Palestinian people who for seve...

May 2, 2021 NEW YORK – Leon Trotsky may not claim a mass following nowadays, but the revolutionary tactics that he pioneered remain very much in use, and not only by communists or in today’s Russia, where they are called “political technology.” One such tactic, known as “entryism” — when members of an extremist group join, subvert, and ultimately take over a more powerful organization, which they then use as a political weapon — has gained adherents among far-right grou...

℘ ℘ The editors of the socially-conscious magazine Mother Jones, explaining the woman Mother Jones to their readers, write: “She was a badass who fought for the underdog, battled child labor, and was sometimes referred to as ‘the most dangerous woman in America.’” She was also a fiery and brilliant Irish immigrant who was one of the founders of the American labor movement, a champion of workers who spoke truth – and gave some attitude – to power, including presidents, Congress a...

Commonsense dictates that if you take a pile of dog poop, place it on a silver serving tray, cover it in Bearnaise Sauce, and garnish it with parsley, it is still dog poop. So why is it so difficult for some people to understand that when you create a political system where racism, venality, mendacity, hypocrisy, and sociopathy are considered to be virtues that you end up with some of the most despicable human beings who ever walked the earth controlling your local, state, and federal governmen...

Robert Capas Life And Photography Robert Capas Life And Photography 246 Words1 Page Robert Capa was born into a Jewish family on October 22, 1913 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary. Capa had a mother named Julianna Berkovits and a brother who was also a photographer named Cornell Capa. When Capa was younger, he was interested in a group of socialists, experimental artists, and photographers. Capa originally wanted to be a writer, but found work in Berlin and grew to love art. Capa was also educated i...

Eastern Europe and the Balkans remain coronavirus hotspot In recent months, the countries of Eastern Europe and the Balkans have been particularly badly hit by the coronavirus pandemic. Across Europe, the number of new daily infections has exceeded 200,000 since March, as high as at the previous peak in November 2020. Before that, the numbers had dropped somewhat due to various uncoordinated national lockdown measures. Over one million people have died from COVID-19 in Europe so far. Under thes...

How did the Spanish Civil War end? The final Republican offensive stalled at the Ebro River on November 18, 1938. Within months Barcelona would fall, and on March 28, 1939, some 200,000 Nationalist troops entered Madrid unopposed. The city had endured a siege of nearly two-and-a-half years, and its residents were in no condition to resist. The following day the remnant of the Republican government surrendered; Franco would establish himself as dictator and remain in power until his death on Nov...

Forward to the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees! May Day 2021 will mark the second year in which the international day of working class solidarity is held under conditions of a global pandemic. The International Committee of the Fourth International will mark this day with an Online Rally. It will issue a call for the formation of the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees (IWA-RFC). The ICFI and its affiliated Socialist Equality Parties are advanc...

Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/37191 Workers’ inquiries: knowledge for power Submitted by AWL on 20 April, 2021 - 6:02 Author: Editorial A swirl of billions, and a trickle of pennies. A great effort of science to control Covid, with wildly uneven vaccine supplies and patents and production gripped by profiteering billionaires. Huge subsidies for some in the pandemic, while others lose jobs or have to try to self-isolate with no or little pay and in crowded hou...