Covid-19: Humanitarian Catastrophe Threatens
Whilst the Coronavirus pandemic has shown it does not discriminate in the way it infects people, as the virus continues to spread rapidly across the world, it’s clear that the effects on those countries and peoples which are the least well prepared and developed economically will likely be the most devastating. In predicting a global […]
Why Multi-Million Tests Are Possible
Guest article by Florian Licht, postgraduate student in biology.A longer version of this article was first published on March 24 on sozialismus.info in German language Countries like South Korea [1] and Singapore [2] have set an example in successfully combating Covid-19 using a mass testing strategy. Virologists and epidemiologists have argued for a huge increase […]
Workers Fight Back Around the World! Live Broadcast on Sunday 5 April!
As unprecedented health, social and economic crisis sweeps the planet, the capitalist system is being exposed. Bosses and right wing governments are putting profits first, with workers put in danger — sacked and impoverished, forced to work in non-essential industry, and/or deprived of the necessary protection at work. But workers are fighting back internationally. Strikes, […]
How the Bolsheviks Treated the National Question
A century after the October revolution, the approach of the Bolsheviks to resolving the national question remains a shining example of what could be achieved in resolving national conflicts if genuine socialist governments were to come to power across the world. This is particularly the case when, under capitalist domination, the world in the 21st […]
National Conflicts and Independence as USSR Breaks Up
“Can a people be genuinely free, if it is oppressing other peoples?” Leon Trotsky The USSR The USSR was a federation of 15 ‘Union republics’, which are all now independent countries. In turn each of these often included ‘autonomous’ regions. Russia itself was and still is a Federation including 22 ‘republics’ and other ‘autonomous’ regions. […]