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Nicaragua celebrates 43 years of revolution: a clash between reality and media misrepresentation
July 19th is a day of celebration in Nicaragua: the anniversary of the overthrow of the Somoza dictatorship. But the international media will have it penciled in their diaries for another reason: it’s yet another opportunity to pour scorn on Nicaragua’s Sandinista government.
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Replacing constitutions in a revolutionary struggle
Can the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka be replaced without recourse to article 82 of the existing Constitution? In other words, can it be replaced extra-legally and extra constitutionally? Yes, it is possible in certain circumstances.
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SPEECH: The Black Revolution is Part of World-wide Struggle, Malcolm X, 1964
Malcolm X reminds us of the deceit of liberals, the power of international thinking, and the coming of Black revolution.
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A prologue to the Swazi revolution, one year in the making
1 year ago, in June and July, a massive uprising led by Communists in Swaziland threatened to overthrow the last absolute monarchy in Africa. With the help of its imperialist allies, the Swazi monarchy brutally repressed this uprising, but they have only temporarily delayed the inevitable. One year later, we can reflect on the conditions that caused the revolution, its successes and missed opportunities, the role of imperialism in tipping the scales to a comprador bourgeoisie, and what has changed in the year since in Swaziland as revolutionary agitation continues.
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Cuba, Haiti, the Helms-Burton and the crime of insubordination
Empires never forgive rebels; an insubordinate rebel plants a seed that can sprout many generations later.
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Despite the Left’s victories, warning signs of a Fascist backlash appear in Colombia & beyond
The decaying colonial regime in Colombia has reached a crisis. Its people, devastated by corporate destruction of their living standards and a corrupt narco regime which has exacted tremendous brutality upon them, has elected a leftist presidential candidate.
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Neil Faulkner – ‘Alienation, Spectacle, and Revolution: A Critical Marxist Essay’
The tradition of concise introductions to Marxist theory is a long one, stretching back perhaps to Engels’s Anti-Dühring. Alienation, Spectacle and Revolution enters stridently into this tradition with an acerbic, tremendously illuminating, and urgent style.
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Journalists confront Antony Blinken and Luis Almagro at Summit of the Americas, call out hypocrisy
On the second day of the 9th Summit of the Americas that is taking place in Los Angeles, journalists questioned officials from the United States government and the U.S.-controlled Organization of American States (OAS), calling out their hypocritical discourses on democracy and freedom of the press.
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Bonfires mark 77th anniversary of Zagreb’s liberation from fascism
As official EU marks Europe Day, anti-fascist networks in Croatia remember the liberation of Zagreb from Nazi-allied Ustaša rule.
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Rosa Luxemburg and the German revolution
The carnage of World War I was ended by revolution in Germany. It began in November 1918 with a mutiny of sailors in Kiel.
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Reform vs Revolution in Russia 1917
In October 1917, revolutionary Russian workers, supported by millions of peasants and soldiers, succeeded in overthrowing capitalist rule and replacing it with their own democratic structures of power.
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Chávez the Radical XXVIII: ‘The Empire and the Oligarchy Will Never Accept Us’
In this episode of “Chávez the Radical,” the Venezuelan leader reminds comrades and followers that the Venezuelan oligarchy and the U.S. empire will never accept the Bolivarian Revolution.
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The Mecca of African Liberation: Walter Rodney in Tanzania
Karim Hirji, a Tanzanian student, was in a good mood when he went to bed on the 10 July 1969. That evening he had heard the most impressive lecture of his life at the University of Dar es Salaam. The lecture was on the Cuban Revolution and its relevance to Africa. Back in his dorm, he praised the speaker in his diary: “one could almost feel the strong conviction and deep emotions from which he spoke”. The man he admired and later befriended was Dr Walter Rodney.
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Long marches, long revolutions
As Red Pepper launches its new ‘Keywords’ series inspired by the work of Raymond Williams, Daniel Frost explores the associations of Williams’ own keyword, the ‘long revolution’
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U.S. ousts Imran Khan but his revolutionary narrative endures
Washington has reactivated old cronies in Islamabad to unseat PM Imran Khan, but the latter has sown seeds of immense dissatisfaction with the old guard and their U.S. backers within the Pakistani public. And Khan’s domestic and foreign allies will not sit by idly either.
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In the World, there are many traps, and it is necessary to shatter them: The Twelfth Newsletter (2022)
On 31 March 1964, the Brazilian military initiated a coup d’état against the democratically-elected progressive government of President João Goulart.
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She, we… on the road to equality
In Cuba, we are fortunate to be part of a social project in which women have been protagonists and beneficiaries of the transformations achieved.
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What Cuba can give the peoples, and has given, is its example
On February 4, 1962, in José Martí Plaza de la Revolución, the Second Declaration of Havana was ratified by popular acclaim, an emphatic response to the aggression, sabotage and crimes against our country, financed by the United States.
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Spanish translations of pamphlets / manifestos published by Daraja Press and Monthly Review Press
We are delighted to announce the online Spanish translations of pamphlets/ manifestos published by Daraja Press and Monthly Review Essays. These pamphlets are parts of the series, Moving Beyond Capitalism – Now! and Thinking Freedom.
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On the significance of the polemical in Marxism
A polemic for revolutionaries is a militant dialogic practice to reveal the contradictions of a position, hammering it down to break open its hardened crust in order to rescue life from the stifle of the canon.