Published on Dissident Voice (first on New Eastern Outlook) NEO, by Andre Vltchek, Nov 7, 2016.
People all over the world are fed up with capitalism … // Continuer la lecture de « Top Secret: These are actually Socialist Countries »
'Red Scare 2', Russia and the 2016 US election
Published on RT, Nov 6, 2016.
Among the many ways in which the 2016 US presidential election has been out of the ordinary is the invocation of Russia as a looming threat to American democracy, basically putting “Putin on the ballot” in the words of the Washington Post. Continuer la lecture de « 'Red Scare 2', Russia and the 2016 US election »
Turkish Gov’t arrests 15 Opposition MPs in Further Descent into Dictatorship
Published on Informed Comment, by Juan Cole, Nov 4, 2016.
The Turkish government has detained 11 members of parliament from the leftist, feminist and pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP),including the party’s co-chairs. This step is intended to give Erdogan the majority in parliament he needs to make himself president for life, and to give Turkey (currently a parliamentary government) an imperial presidency on the Egyptian model. The pretext was that these MPs declined to testify in a witch-hunt inquiry. I.e., this is precisely McCarthyism. Continuer la lecture de « Turkish Gov’t arrests 15 Opposition MPs in Further Descent into Dictatorship »
UK: Caught at a crossroads, it's time to build an alternative to neoliberalism
Published on New Statesman, by John McDonnell, Nov 2, 2016.
After four decades, the economic consensus is crumbling, what can politicians do next? Continuer la lecture de « UK: Caught at a crossroads, it's time to build an alternative to neoliberalism »
Syria and the Antiwar Tradition
Published on The Bullet, Socialist Project’s E- Bulletin No 1324, by David Bush, editor at RankandFile.ca., Nov 3, 2016.
There is major disorientation on the left in many Western countries when it comes to Syria and about how antiwar activists should respond to events on the ground in Syria and Iraq. The highly complex nature of the Syrian war involving a multitude of foreign states and non-state actors would, in the best of times, present the left with a real challenge to find political clarity. The fact that this is occurring precisely when the antiwar movement in countries like Canada and the United States are relatively weak only adds to the confusion. Continuer la lecture de « Syria and the Antiwar Tradition »