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The roots and reality of racism in France
Liberté. Egalité. Fraternité. That was the slogan with which the French masses overthrew the hated monarchy in 1789.
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Another northern summer of climate catastrophe
Last year, an EU study estimated that more than 60,000 people across Europe died due to heat. This year is likely to be even worse.
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What is social class?
A recent Essential poll found that 79 percent of Australians believe social classes still exist in Australia. This is unsurprising, given the distribution of wealth. For example, the Australia Institute’s Inequality on Steroids report estimates that the top 10 percent of Australian income earners received 93 percent of the benefits from all economic growth in the decade from 2009 to 2019.
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They must think we’re stupid
The fox is in charge of the chook house. Dracula is guarding the blood bank. And the CEO of one of the biggest oil and gas companies in the world will preside over the big United Nations climate conference at the end of this year.
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No justice, no peace in France
“Tout le monde deteste la police!”—Everyone hates the police—was chanted at demonstrations and riots across France last week.
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Socialism and the city
In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx highlighted that “constant revolutionising of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones”.
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The magic of capitalism
Spend less, work longer or get another job, move in with your parents or get a flatmate. But whatever you do, don’t push for a pay rise to compensate for inflation.
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Trump charges: why ‘unprecedented’?
“It is hard to overstate the gravity of the criminal indictment”, the New York Times editorial board wrote on 9 June, noting Trump’s “contempt for the rule of law”.
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Canada is burning. Capitalism stoked the flames
Wildfires are tearing through the Canadian province of Alberta, the heart of Canada’s lucrative oil and gas industry.
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A farcical U.S. election cycle begins—again
A recent NBC News poll found that 70 percent of U.S. voters don’t want Joe Biden to recontest the presidency next year. Sixty percent feel likewise about Donald Trump.
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The fight for migrant rights in the U.S.: an interview with Justin Akers Chacón
Justin Akers Chacón, a socialist based in San Diego, California, campaigns for worker and migrant rights in the US-Mexico border region and is the author of The border crossed us: the case for opening the US-Mexico border. He caught up with Red Flag to discuss immigrant rights in the US under Democratic President Joe Biden.
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Trans rights are under attack
There is a dangerous escalation of transphobia happening right now. The political right in the United States and the United Kingdom are rolling back civil rights for trans people specifically and LGBT people more broadly. This is being driven by an amalgamation of mainstream conservative parties, the far right, Christian fundamentalists and right-wing shock jocks and tabloids.
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Remembering Rachel Corrie twenty years on
Rachel Corrie, an American Palestine-solidarity activist, was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer twenty years ago this month. She was murdered by the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) while attempting to defend a Palestinian home from demolition in Rafah, a city in the blockaded Gaza Strip.
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Shelley’s revolutionary poetry
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets—and arguably the greatest.
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U.S. bombers in the NT increase the risk of war
The Pentagon will deploy the B-52s to the Tindal air base near Katherine.
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Lessons from the rise of Mussolini, 100 years on
One hundred years ago, in October 1922, Benito Mussolini’s paramilitary blackshirts marched on the Italian capital to demand the dissolution of the government of Prime Minister Luigi Facta.
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Inside the global garment industry
Clothing and footwear manufacturing is characterised by a globalised “value chain”, in which each phase of production is concentrated in a different region.
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Global ruling classes welcome fascist-led government in Italy
The Italian general election was a historic win for the far right.
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Far right makes gains in Swedish elections
In 1994, 15-year-old Jimmie Åkersson sought out a neo-Nazi party. Today, he’s brought that party into the mainstream.
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The Italian road to fascism
At the end of 2021, Italy was crowned “country of the year” by the Economist magazine