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Why does cancel culture, which is so demonstrably limiting, harmful, and antisocial, continue to be on the rise in America?

Commentary As Americans, we have had it good for so long that we often take important things for ...

Anti-Trump Professor: ‘Dying’ GOP ‘Replicating’ Soviet Communist Party 25 Feb 2021 The Atlantic published an op-ed on Thursday comparing the GOP to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union of the late 1970s, claiming that Republicans —  like the last Soviet-era holdouts in the Kremlin — are “growing more aggressive and paranoid” as the “dying” Republican Party is described as “more of a danger to the United States than to the world.” The essay, penned by Harvard professo...

Anticapitalistas covers for Podemos’ incarceration of Spanish rapper Pablo Hasél Spain’s Anticapitalistas party, a petty-bourgeois Pabloite tendency that helped found the “Left Populist” Podemos party and left the Socialist Party (PSOE)-Podemos government last year, is seeking to suppress opposition to Podemos as mass youth protests erupt against the jailing of rapper Pablo Hasél. The jailing of the 32-year old rapper by the PSOE-Podemos government for insulting the state and the Bour...

Germany: Left Party congress paving way for government participation and war At its party congress this coming weekend, Germany’s Left Party will set an even more direct course towards government participation and support for war. The draft election programme presented by the departing leadership duo of Katja Kipping and Bernd Riexinger, and the statements of their designated successors, Janine Wissler and Susanne Hennig-Wellsow make this absolutely clear. “It is time to begin a new phase i...

The 1917 Russian Revolution In October 1917, in the midst of the slaughter of World War I, the Russian working class, acting under the leadership of the Bolshevik Party led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, overthrew the capitalist provisional government headed by Alexander Kerensky and established the first workers’ state in world history. Less than nine months earlier, Russia had been ruled by a monarchical dynasty headed by Tsar Nicholas II. The revolution was the beginning of the end of...

Join the IYSSE and take up the fight for international socialism! The following statement is being distributed by International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) student clubs at orientation activities marking the beginning of the university year in Australia and New Zealand. The events of the past year have brought students and young people face to face with the brutal reality of capitalism—that your social rights, and your very lives, are to be sacrificed on the altar of profit...

Leon Trotsky Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) was, alongside Vladimir Lenin, the greatest revolutionary leader of the 20th century. Trotsky and Lenin led the Bolshevik Party and the Russian working class in the 1917 October Revolution, which established the first workers state in human history. In 1923, Trotsky founded the Left Opposition to oppose the growth of a nationalist bureaucracy, headed by Joseph Stalin, as it usurped power in the Soviet Union. In 1933, following the coming to power of the Naz...

History of the Fourth International The Fourth International is the World Party of Socialist Revolution. It was founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938 to carry forward the fight for Marxism in opposition to the Stalinist degeneration of the Soviet Union and the Communist (Third) International. Trotsky had founded the Left Opposition in 1923 to oppose the usurpation of power by a nationalist bureaucracy headed by Joseph Stalin and defend the program of socialist internationalism that had animated the...

Democrats call for “patience” as Trump moves forward with coup plot With two weeks remaining before the general election, Donald Trump continues to mobilize far-right forces in support of his bid to remain in power no matter the outcome of the November 3 election. Speaking in Muskegon, Michigan on Saturday, the president repeated baseless warnings of massive voter fraud and launched into a bitter denunciation of the state’s Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who was the target of an as...