This year has seen a ratcheting up of tensions between the US administration and North Korean regimes, with sabre-rattling and bellicose rhetoric on both sides. It is clear, however, that Donald Trump’s words and actions are intended not as help for the Korean masses, but as a desperate attempt to display a veneer of strength.
Like Katrina and Sandy before it, Hurricane Harvey in the USA has once again revealed the rotten results of capitalism’s prioritisation of profits over people. What Harvey shows is that the system cannot effectively deal with catastrophe. In fact, capitalism itself is the catastrophe.
The chaotic process of Brexit reflects the long-term decline and decay of British capitalism. But this turbulence, in turn, is not confined to the UK. The whole of European capitalism is equally crisis-ridden. As Josh Holroyd discusses, the future for both the UK and EU under capitalism is one of stagnation, slump, and austerity.
When we think of slavery we immediately cast our minds back to the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade. But while chattel slavery of such scale and savagery has been consigned to the history books, there are in fact more slaves in the world today than at the height of the colonial slave trade.
The International Marxist Tendency strongly condemn the criminal terrorist attack carried out by ISIS activists in Barcelona. An attack which, up to now, has left thirteen dead and over a hundred injured. We express our solidarity with the victims and their families in these moments of suffering and pain.
Donald Trump, in regards to the current situation in Venezuela, has stated that he is “not going to rule out a military option”. With such comments, Trump is speaking on behalf of the imperialist US establishment. We publish here a statement by Hands Off Venezuela USA, calling for solidarity with the Venezuelan masses.
We publish here an article by comrades from the IMT USA, who discuss the way forward in fighting the far-right in the wake of the white supremacist, neo-Nazi march in Charlottsville, Virginia, last weekend. The consciously organised working class, in the form of a mass socialist party, could stop a burgeoning fascist movement in its tracks.
The trial involving Martin Shkreli has ended. He is the entrepreneur who bought the rights to a cheap life-saving drug for the treatment of AIDS and cancer and increased its price 5,000%. Shkreli has shown the real morality of capitalism, where profit is king and to hell with everything else.
The Tory government has responded to the Constituent Assembly elections in Venezuela on Sunday July 30 with an escalation of hypocritical imperialist rhetoric and actions. Whilst denouncing the Maduro government, Theresa May and Boris Johnson have no qualms forging close alliances with despots in Saudi Arabia or the Erdogan regime in Turkey.
Before the results were even in for Sunday’s Constituent Assembly election in Venezuela, the opposition and western imperialism had already declared there had been massive fraud and that they would not recognise the legitimacy of the Assembly. Since then, they have piled up pressure on all fronts. Jorge Martin asks: what is to be done?
The Venezuelan opposition, backed by Washington and Madrid, has launched an all out offensive to prevent Sunday’s Constituent Assembly elections form going ahead. We stand firmly against this reactionary attempt which can only be defeated by revolutionary means.
Imperialist military interventions in Iraq, Syria and Libya were justified on the basis of restoring democracy and human rights. But what has occurred is the exact opposite, with the rise of barbarism in all three countries. In Libya, we are seeing the growth of slave-like conditions on a systematic level.