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The American state, the fascists and the Soviet Union’s ex-revolutionaries In Cold War Exiles and the CIA: Plotting to Free Russia, published by Oxford University Press last year, Benjamin Tromly, a professor of history at University of Puget Sound, explores the relationship between America’s post-war spy agencies and anti-communist Russian and Soviet émigrés dedicated to regime change in the USSR. His work contains extensive evidence of the machinations of the fascists with which the US...

The rise of financial parasitism and the emergence of fascism In his report “The Trump coup and the rise of fascism: Where is America going?” David North traced out the historical processes that led to the events in Washington on January 6. He explained that while extreme right-wing and fascistic movements had always been present within the American body politic, these malignant political and social forces had been able to be contained so long as the US was a rising economic power. The pres...

The Jewish Question: A Marxist Interpretation. The murderous attack on Jews at the Kosher deli in Jersey City in December 2019, the cold-blooded massacre of Jews at the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris in 2015 and other acts of anti-Semitic violence shattered the illusion of many that virulent Jew-hatred ended with the fall of the Nazi regime. Or that it is only a minor question today. Why does Jew-hatred persist and how can it be eradicated? This book, kept in print and actively distri...

A united working class can defeat fascism By Ted Kelly posted on January 20, 2021 Excerpts taken from Jan. 14 webinar on “Workers Can Defeat Fascism & Racism” sponsored by Workers World Party.  To view the entire panel discussion, go to   Ted Kelly “At the moment that the ‘normal’ police and military resources of the bourgeois dictatorship, together with their parliamentary screens, no longer suffice to hold society in a state of equilibrium — the turn of the fascist regime arr...

Goodbye Donald Trump The January 6 failed coup is a symptom of decay. Even with a near $2 trillion rescue package the Biden administration is unlikely to revive the American dream, says Jack Conrad There can be no better way of beginning this valedictory article on Donald J Trump than by quoting Marx quoting Hegel. Here are the seemingly casual opening lines of The eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852): Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world...

SEP meeting honours the life and political legacy of Australian Trotskyist Barry Jobson The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) and International Youth and Students for Social Equality (IYSSE) in Australia held a powerful online meeting last Sunday to commemorate the life of Barry Jobson, a former railway worker and veteran socialist, who died aged 78 on December 11. Jobson joined the Trotskyist movement in 1974 and dedicated his adult life to the struggle for Trotskyism and socialist internationali...

The Latest: Bidens Big Day, Jack Ma Is Back, Tokyo Games At Risk Clashes in Tunis over unemployment and stagnating economy - Khaled Nasraoui/dpa/ZUMA       2020-01-20 Welcome to Wednesday, where Biden will be inaugurated as the 46th U.S. president, Italys prime minister hangs on, and the Tokyo Olympics may be cancelled again. We also visit six iconic businesses around the world, which have survived wars and depressions, but are n...

China’s growth rate increase fuels geo-political tensions Under different circumstances, the Chinese government’s announcement that the economy grew by 6.5 percent in the final quarter of the 2020 would have been welcomed as providing a useful boost to global growth. Despite a contraction of 6.8 percent in the first quarter of 2020, output expanded by 2.3 percent overall for the year. This news was not welcome in many ruling circles today, however. It will lead to increased tensions with th...

Silent on coup attempt, Mexico’s AMLO defends Trump against “censorship” Mexico’s President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (known as AMLO) has refused to condemn the January 6 coup attempt instigated by Donald Trump. Instead, he has focused his response to the tumultuous events in the US on defending the access of Trump—the main conspirator behind efforts to establish a fascistic dictatorship—to his social media accounts. The breakdown of American democracy has explosive implications...

A critical assessment by Patrice Greanville Another illuminating chat with the ever cogent Chris Hedges. Theres no question Hedges is a powerful and valuable voice in a political landscape largely decimated of lucid and principled analysts. That said, I have always found Hedges far more of an old-fashioned left-liberal than a radical socialist, a Marxist, or a "tankie", which in my view would be a marked improvement in the clarity and power of his message. Lest someone think Im an ingrate, espe...