With days to go until the second round of the French presidential elections, we chat to Joe Attard – writer and activist with the IMT – to discuss the significance of the last round, whether the left should back Macron, and what lies in store for the class struggle in France.
Lately, the relationships between Trump and his European acolytes have turned sour. It turns out that it is rather difficult to build a ‘nationalist international’ – not least when the world is being riven apart by imperialist contradictions and national antagonisms.
There is no doubt that the Chinese Revolution, led by Mao, is one of the greatest events in human history. It freed China from the shackles of imperialism after a heroic, decades-long struggle. In this episode, Daniel Morley discusses Mao’s life, legacy, and limits.
Chartism was the first time ever that British workers fixed their eyes on the seizure of political power: in 1839, 1842 and again in 1848. In this struggle, they conducted a class war that at different times involved general strikes, battles with the state, mass demonstrations and even armed insurrection.