Coronavirus, Trump and the world economy
Jonathan Neale discusses how Trump’s response to the covid-19 outbreak will affect the world economy.
International
The Virus – Apocalypse Now?
Phil Hearse analyses the response of capitalism to yet another pandemic, and argues that state action around world is urgently needed.
The climate war is here
Pip Hinman in Sydney reports how the devastating fires have exposed the government’s failure to respond to the climate emergency.
Rebellion and Reaction – Worldwide anti-austerity upsurge met with brutal repression
American and British liberals tend to present phenomena like Donald Trump as distasteful ‘populist’ aberrations, based on the unfortunate and excluded ultra-poor. This is wrong on every count. In most places the ultra-right mass movements have their core in the comfortable (and generally older) middle classes, however much working class support they eventually garner. What is happening goes way beyond ‘populism’.
Erdogan humiliated by Istanbul election re-run defeat
Sarah Glynn looks at the re-run of Istanbul’s mayoral election on 23 June, which has led to a humiliating defeat for Turkish President Erdogan.
Sudan, Algeria, and the Long Arab Spring
Gilbert Achcar is interviewed about the uprisings and the long Arab Spring.
Hugo Blanco speaks
Hugo Blanco message to the Socialist Resistance meeting , London 6/11/2018 English translation of the Hugo Blanco video message I want to thank the British cdes for [...]
Gilbert Achcar on the “Clash of Barbarisms” today
Gilbert Achcar’s book The Clash of Barbarisms: The Making of the New World Disorder (Saqi Books, London, 2006) came out recently in a third French edition. On this [...]
Socialists rise to the challenge of Hamburg G20 summit
The G20 summit in Hamburg will mark one of the first occasions on which Donald Trump will visit Europe since he became US President. The first is the NATO summit in Brussels [...]
World Politics after Trump and Brexit
The document below was agreed by Socialist Resistance at its conference over the weekend 7/8 April: The vote in Britain for leaving the European Union and the victory of [...]
