Europe
20,000 Protest in Berlin After the Rent Cap is Overturned
The only way to stop exploding rents is to put housing under public control by nationalizing Berlin’s biggest landlords.
Nathaniel Flakin
April 26, 2021Everything You Need to Know About Sahra Wagenknecht’s “Left Conservatism”
Everyone on the German Left is talking about a terrible new book. We are all "bizarre minorities."
Nathaniel Flakin
April 20, 2021DIE LINKE: How Left is Germany’s Left Party?
Seen from a distance, Die LINKE might seem pretty cool: A party that opposes war, capitalism, and all border controls gets up to 10 percent in national elections. But it is also a government party, and has applied racist and neoliberal policies since its founding. What would Rosa Luxemburg say?
Nathaniel Flakin
April 6, 2021A Democracy of a Different Class
150 years after the Paris Commune: Was it more than pure democracy or the democratic republic?
Matías Maiello
April 4, 2021How Oil Workers and Environmentalists United in Struggle
Interview with Adrien Cornet, a leader of the strike at the Total refinery in Grandpuits, France
Nathaniel Flakin
April 4, 2021Amazon Workers in Germany Are on Strike
While everyone is talking about the unionization campaign at Amazon in Alabama, there have also been strikes at Amazon in Germany and Italy. Yet union bureaucrats are holding the struggle back.
Nathaniel Flakin
April 1, 2021Tens of Thousands of Amazon Workers Went on Strike in Italy
Last Tuesday saw the biggest strike that Amazon has ever experienced in Europe, with thousands of workers participating. Here, we present an analysis by Italian socialists.
Giacomo Turci
March 31, 2021Why is Biden Escalating Tensions Between the U.S. and Russia?
Heightening tensions between Russia and the United States were on full display last week after a diplomatic row between the two countries. Like previous administrations, the Biden administration has quickly shown that it is unwilling to back down from U.S. imperialism’s aggressiveness.
Samuel Karlin
March 29, 2021Amazon Workers in Italy Stage 24-Hour Strike
As Amazon workers in Alabama fight for a union, workers in Italy disrupted Amazon operations across that country in a one-day strike yesterday to call attention to their horrendous working conditions as the company rakes in greater profits than ever.
Scott Cooper
March 23, 2021Lessons of the Commune
The Paris Commune, founded 150 years ago, ended in a bloody defeat. But this defeat offered lessons to revolutionaries around the world. Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Luxemburg — all drew strategic lessons that were applied in the Russian Revolution.
Doug Enaa Greene
March 21, 2021