classconscious.org is republishing with permission this important document by the Bolshevik Group South Korea. It can be downloaded from their website published as a pdf here or can be read on the website here. As the Bolshevik Group state in their introduction: “The issue of China, as it was the case for the Soviet Union […]
by Karin Hilpisch, 30th December 2022 In this article, I’m going to take a critical look at some commentaries on the #MeToo campaign, issued by four Trotskyist groups, which I think exemplarily reveal what in my perception constitutes paradigmatic misogyny. The latter expression I understand to mean the practice of routinely downplaying, or airbrushing away, […]
by Davey Heller, 21st November 2022 An edited version of this article was published on Independent Australia The failure of the Republican Party to achieve a “red wave” in the US Midterms has heralded yet another round of “Trump is finished” pieces in the bourgeois press. It’s true that a few of the candidates backed […]
by Karin Hilpisch, November 14th 2022 Will Lehman, a rank-and-file member of United Auto Workers (UAW), is running for president of his labour union. His election campaign (which will be referred to as WLC for short hereafter) was launched and is being organized by the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI)) whose organ, the […]
As the workers of the Global South understand deeply, it is the region that suffers the most from US-led imperialism, it is where it obtains the greatest profits and prosecutes its most vicious wars and coups. The Global South, for centuries, has been the centre of bloody exploitation of its people and its lands by […]
The question of what is imperialism is a key question for Marxists. The war in Ukraine has brought this to the fore with many Marxists incorrectly labelling Russia as imperialist. Lenin published his seminal work on the topic in 1916 entitled “Imperialism the highest stage of Capitalism”. The Workers World Party from the US has […]
The following is a statement signed by Marxist from Asia, Australia, North and South America and Europe. It was organised through the WORLDONFIRE (Worldwide Organising Network Against Fascism Imperialism and Exploitation). Please share! Solidarity to the referendum voters in the Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk and the regions of Kherson and Zaprizhia! Congratulations to the […]
By Davey Heller, September 18th On September 18th, a “Peace Day Rally: Truth not war! Free Julian Assange!” was held. The rally was timed to be part of the UN global Peace day events and was hosted by Melbourne 4 Assange, PEN Melbourne, Anti AUKUS Vic and Extinction Rebellion. Around 100 people braved a wet […]
by Davey Heller, 14th September On September 10th/11th, a panel was held entitled “Marxists speak out: 200 Days of War. Stop the war of US/NATO imperialism against Russia! Stop the US preparations of war against China!” The panel was timed to coincide with the 200th day of the war in Ukraine. It is now clearer […]
by Karin Hilpisch, August 25th 2022 “Freedom and equality for the oppressed sex!” Lenin (1) Introductory remarks In discussing the contentious, much debated issue of the compatibility of feminism and Marxism, this article aims to show that Marxist feminism is neither an oxymoron nor a tautology. Based on the understanding that sexism, the name by […]