Mandel and Capitalist Breakdown
The crux of Mandel’s method was to use Marxist economic categories to analyse current problems, illuminated with contemporary data rather than filial quotes from Das Kapital.
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Anti-Capitalist Resistance
Socialist Resistance welcomes the initiative with Mutiny towards the possible creation of a new revolutionary anti-capitalist organisation.
Obesity is a class issue
Obesity is often a proxy indicator of poverty, mental health issues or both in Britain. For all their talk of a “levelling up”, the Tories have never in their decade in government shown a serious effort to address either. Their current “war on obesity” is nothing but window dressing and distraction.
Relaunch Labour’s Green New Deal
Just 6 per cent of the public want a return to the old pre-pandemic model of the economy. The rest want the lessons of the pandemic to be learned and for real change to be put in place.
Far-Left Fascism: The Non-Existent Disorder …
With all other avenues rapidly closing, the racism, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia that have characterised Trump’s political life are the only thing he has left in his toolbox that he can use to try to win re-election.
Tower Hamlets strike reveals Labour fault lines
The strike is illuminating the massive divisions in Labour over something as basic as defending jobs, conditions and services. The party’s right is willing to take extreme measures to force through cuts, confident that the majority of the centre will acquiesce and shut up, waiting for all the fuss to die down.
Lost
Twenty-five left organisations are re-framed through film narrative in a reductive reading of them that is, duplicitous publicity for the book points out, ‘merciless’. It is anything but!
Support China’s ban on its wildlife trade
Ecosocialists should oppose this trade whenever and wherever it is found. This is not just because it opens the door to dangerous pathogens but because it stands in direct contradiction to the new relationship between human beings and nature that is central to the future of this planet as a liveable space.
Corrupt socialists? Heaven forfend!
For those of us who see politics as fundamentally about ideology and choosing sides in the class struggle, Baron Noir provides a bit of an insight into the minds of our opponents for whom it’s more about personal advantage and deal making.
“Martin Monath: A Jewish Resistance Fighter Among Nazi Soldiers”
World War II was the product of capitalism which is still with us. It is prepared to defend its system of exploitation and oppression at the cost of tens of millions of lives. The opposite course, advocated by the FI and their comrades publishing Arbeiter und Soldat, cannot be dismissed as mere “counterfactual” history.
