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The Indian farmers’ agitation and the socialist strategy of the working class The more than 3-week-long agitation mounted by hundreds of thousands of farmers on the outskirts of Delhi has highlighted and intensified the popular opposition of India’s workers and toilers to Narendra Modi and his far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government. Rushed through parliament in September in conjunction with a sweeping attack on workers’ rights, the Modi government’s pro-agribusiness farm laws...

George Prochnik. Heinrich Heine: Writing the Revolution. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020. pp. 336. $26.00 (Hardcover) Heinrich Heine was the first Jew to become a cultural icon in Germany. While Moses Mendelssohn achieved fame as a philosopher in the German Enlightenment, Heine’s poetry was beloved by a much wider circle of the culture. His “Lorelei,” an ode to the personified siren of the Rhine was so iconic that the Nazis, who burned his books, had no choice but to preserve the ...

SCOTLAND SUPPLEMENT III - Separatism, federalism, centralism Breaking apart existing states is not the road to socialism, but the road to defeat, writes Jack Conrad Those who rigidly adhere to a moralistic, third-worldist anti-imperialism cannot possibly bring themselves to countenance self-determination for ‘unworthy’ peoples - the most obvious example being Israeli Jews and the British-Irish in the six counties of Northern Ireland. 1 Given its junior role in building, administering and ma...

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Blurb While Jeremy Corbyn was thee leader of the Labour Party, and ever since, a number of political storms have taken place in which Corbyn and the wider left have been accused of antisemitism. Some on the left contend such accusations are “smears”, with no basis in reality, fabricated by right-wing forces to impede the rise of the left. We disagree. We have argued for many years that certain aspects of the political common sense dominant on the far left, particularly in terms of how it vi...

It’s dark and cold — very cold — when we leave the warm embrace of our hotel, walk across the square past St Isaac’s Cathedral, and make our way along the river until we can get close to the water’s edge. Even in the darkness of a late winter’s night, the sight is breathtaking — great ice floes, massive sheets the size of flattened double-decker buses, are all drifting gradually towards each other in a slow but mesmerising ice dance. All around us the city is silent, so what, the...

Literature table at the 2019 DSA national convention (Photo: Democratic Socialists of America) Palestine: A Socialist Introduction was just published by Haymarket Books. The collection (which includes essays from Shireen Akram-Boshar, Omar Barghouti, Nada Elia, and others) argues that Palestine should be viewed as an important part socialism and socialism should be viewed as an important part of Palestinian liberation. “This collection is a poignant and incisive engagement with the pas...

Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/36520 Bosnia-Herzegovina: 25 years after Dayton Submitted by martin on 8 December, 2020 - 2:50 Author: Len Glover Protest in Tuzla, 2014, for jobs and economic justice and against communalism There is a film nowadays rarely seen which was once, perhaps surprisingly, the most popular foreign film ever shown in China: Walter Defends Sarajevo (directed by Hajruin Krvavac in 1972) is a Yugoslav film, set in the Second World War, telli...

In his insightful article “Something Wicked This Way Comes” (Canada Free Press, Dec. 12, 2020), Ray DiLorenzo presents a synthetic perspective on the Chinese-Communist origin of many socio-political pathologies that are poised to destroy America as we have known her from the nation’s Constitution and history. Here, I would like to widen that perspective by adding to it a brief account of some of the known Soviet and neo-Marxian roots of the said pathologies. These two views (of China o...

BY NAOMI CRAINE MAYWOOD, Ill. — “These companies use the pandemic as an excuse” to go after workers’ rights and conditions, truck driver Shishonie Perry told Socialist Workers Party member Leroy Watson and this worker-correspondent when we knocked on his door in this Chicago suburb Dec. 6. Perry owns his rig and works for a company that delivers containers for a major grocery chain. Militant/George Chalmers“Everything in this country is about money,” said apprentice electrician Josh...