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Based on an analysis of Syriza’s class character as representative of an upper middle class strata, advancing a pro-capitalist programme, the International Committee of the Fourth International warned that it would rapidly renege on its promises and impose the austerity offensive demanded by Greece’s creditors—leading to the strengthening of right-wing and fascistic forces.

IR’s complaint that “the ‘progressive’ management of capitalism has gone very wrong” amounts to an exposure of this party’s decade-long support for the anti-worker Podemos party.

New legislation outlawing strikes and mass protests by teachers, healthcare employees and other sections of the working class signals a return to dictatorial methods of rule.

The struggle against the pension cut is a political struggle against the capitalist state, and to wage it, workers have to fight to bring down Macron.

Workers and young people marching across France against Emmanuel Macron’s illegitimate pension reform must form rank-and-file committees independent of the pro-capitalist trade unions.

The party receiving the most votes was the fascistic Republicans, led by José Antonio Kast, the son of a Nazi German officer and admirer of US president Donald Trump.

The pamphlet, which presents a criticism of critical race theory and identity politics from the left, is now available from Mehring Books.

The role of SYRIZA in Greece is a strategic experience for the international working class, demonstrating the bankruptcy of claims made by pseudo-left tendencies around the world that meaningful change can be made by voting their pro-capitalist parties into government.

Chief warmonger Adam Schiff, one of several Democrats who voted to ban railroad workers' right to strike last year, is among the politicians promoted by the Writers Guild leaders.

The role of the pseudo-left groups is to line up behind the unions and defend them against the angry opposition of workers.