Black Lives Matter: An International Rally

For over a month, millions have taken to the streets across the globe, to fight against racism and police brutality and to say that Black lives matter. In this new wave of uprisings, which comes in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, one thing is clear — the struggle against racism is the struggle against the capitalist system that thrives on oppression.

On July 11, join the international rally presented by the La Izquierda Diario / Left Voice network to hear from comrades from around the world who’ve been at the front lines of the current movement against racist and police terror. The fight against racist and police terror is international!

Speakers:

USA: Julia Wallace, Mike Pappas and Maryam Alaniz from Left Voice
Brazil: Marcelo Pablito, Leticia Parks from Esquerda Diário / MRT – Movimento Revolucionário de Trabalhadores / Quilombo Vermelho – Luta Negra Anticapitalista
France: Anasse Kazib from Révolution Permanente / NPA – Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste

With greetings from comrades in Great Britain, Germany, Chile and Bolivia, and an opening by Nicolás del Caño and Myriam Bregman from Argentina.

Watch:

Tune in to Left Voice at 2pm Eastern Time and 11am Pacific Time on Facebook and Youtube.

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Understanding the Global Context of the Ukrainian Conflict: A Response to Our Critics

The 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the massive rearmament of Europe that followed mark a new stage in a growing conflict that has become a proxy war between the imperialist states of the US and NATO on one side, and an emerging alliance between Russia and China on the other. While some on the Left see this new pole of Russia and China as a check against US imperialism, neither country is anti-imperialist, and neither has anything progressive to offer working people.

Pro-NATO Positions Split a Trotskyist Tendency

The war in Ukraine has led to intense debates on the international socialist Left. In November, the Socialist Labor Party (SEP) of Turkey announced it was breaking with the Socialist Workers Movement (MST) of Argentina, in a serious blow to their common project, the International Socialist League (ISL-LIS). What can we learn from this split?

Dossier: One Year of a Reactionary War in Ukraine

With the aim of developing an international perspective for working class intervention against the reactionary war in Ukraine, we publish this dossier. These articles engage with some of the key debates the war has opened on the Left, analysis on how the geopolitical crisis is developing, and the positions of our international tendency: the Trotskyist Fraction - Fourth International.

Despite Threats of Arrest, Refinery Workers in France Refuse to Break Strike

As energy strikes continue, France is faced with a kerosene shortage that’s creating an urgent situation at the country’s airports. With capitalist profits on the line, the government has attempted to force Normandy refinery workers back to work through an anti-strike legal weapon called requisitions. In their first victory, refinery workers forced the police to withdraw in an incredible demonstration of solidarity.

Battle of the Pensions: Toward a Pre-Revolutionary Moment in France

President Macron's use of article 49.3 to push through an unpopular pension reform bill has opened up an enormous political crisis that has changed the character of the mobilizations against the French government. We are entering a "pre-revolutionary moment" that can change the balance of power between the classes in France.

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