5 times Sabate proved he was Franco’s Public Enemy No. 1
The life of Francesc Sabaté Llopart, aka ‘El Quico’, reads like the story of an anarchist action film: participating in the Spanish Civil War, the anti-Nazi resistance in France and armed struggle against Franco, Sabaté carried out assassinations of fascists, illegal border crossings across the Pyrenees and armed robberies to fund the resistance.
Mexico's Turmoil Continues: The Maquiladora Strikes
The article below has been provided by a CWO sympathiser. It gives a brief sketch of a continuing struggle where we again see workers organising themselves against their bosses and against the bosses' props, the Labor Unions. At this point the outcome of the struggle is not yet determined but even now it is clear that the struggle is part of our class's resistance against the capitalists' crisis-driven onslaught.
40 reasons why Tariq Ramadan is a reactionary bigot (2005)
Alliance for Workers' Liberty: Part of Capitalism's Left Wing
Against All Capitalist Factions! For Proletarian Independence!
The 26th of January: A Day of Celebration or a Day of Mourning?
Living The Dream whilst abolishing prisons
An interview about the recent Imagining Abolition conference and the politics of prison abolition.
From The Word From Struggle Street
Mexico: Between Barbarism and Class Struggle
Two pieces of news from Mexico currently appear in the press around the world: a new historical record in the number of homicides and the explosion of a Pemex pipeline in Tlahuelilpan, which has left almost a hundred corpses already. Everything in Mexico leads us to despair. But there is something important going on that the international media is not broadcasting.
A Decade Since the Financial Crash
The world economy is in poor shape and the American economy is in even worse condition. The 2008 crisis has not been resolved and many analysts fear a new financial explosion. Capital continues to stay clear of investment in production and is trying to recover without running up more debts. Company returns are low, profit rates are decreasing. Capital is moving more and more into speculation. It is the same old situation, except that the rescue costs of the previous crisis cannot be repeated in the next crisis. The sound of war can be heard in the distance, accompanied by the rising threat of a new, catastrophic barbarism.
Fight Capitalism - Not its Symptoms
Some Further Thoughts on the Yellow Vests Movement
A Hundred Years Since the Murder of Luxemburg and Liebknecht
On this day [15 January] exactly a century ago Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were brutally murdered in cold blood by Freikorps troops under the command of the Social Democratic Party. It decapitated the leadership of the young German Communist Party which then oscillated between putschism and opportunism for the rest of its existence. The consequences were that the world revolution, which the revolutionaries in Russia had counted on, did not take place.
The Sorry Spectacle of “Marxists” in Defence of Chinese “Collective Capitalism”
Peoples Assembly Election Carnival: Leftist "Yellow Vests" show their true colours
The Crisis of the Sudanese Regime
It was the tripling of bread prices which sparked off the current revolt in Sudan. People first took to the streets in the town of Atbara in north eastern Sudan on 19 December 2018, but they did not restrict their demands to bread even though some had not managed to find any in four days. They had had enough of the brutal military dictatorship of Omar Hassan al-Bashir which has ruled the country since 1989. The protestors not only demanded “freedom, peace, and justice” but also echoed the slogan of the 2011 Arab Spring that “the people want the fall of the regime.” As a symbol of their wider political demands, the ruling party headquarters in Atbara was burned to the ground.