Hong Kong
Vital lessons of Hong Kong’s ‘Umbrella Revolution’
Mass struggle needs genuine internal democracy and fighting working class programme to defeat dictatorship
Around the world
Indonesia
Indonesia: “New Hope” president faces intense pressures
Initiative to build mass party of working class and rural poor urgently needed
Ukraine
Ukraine: Competing ‘elections’ deepen divisions
Working people need socialist alternative to warring oligarchs and outside powers
Scotland
Scotland: SNP government announces £500 million cuts
Majority of ‘Yes’ voters want end to austerity – anti-cuts candidates needed!
Germany
Germany: Highly politicised train drivers’ strike
Last week German train drivers and on-board staff went on strike for four days, shaking and polarising the country
Britain
Britain: Over 1,000 attend largest ever ‘Socialism’ event
Socialism 2014 – infused with contagious confidence
Germany
Germany: 25 years since November 9
Berlin Wall brought down by mass revolutionary movement
Canada
Canada: Right wing wins Toronto Mayoral election
NDP increasingly irrelevant to needs of workers, immigrants and youth
Canada
Canada: Ottawa ‘locked-down’ after Parliament gun attack
Tory government whips-up terrorist fears to boost Canada’s imperialist role
Middle East & North Africa
Book review: The Jihadis Return
Isis and the new Sunni uprising, by Patrick Cockburn. The imperialist powers are squirming. Things are not going their way in the Middle East. A year ago, the US, UK, France, etc, were contemplating air strikes […]