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Articles

Algeria: One year later, Hirak is still here!

February 24, 2020

The Algerians say that it is not simply a question of changing one president for another, it is the regime itself that needs to be changed. …

Editorials

The World in Upheaval!

December 2, 2019

Workers, students and other exploited and oppressed people are fighting back against those who rule …

Articles

On December 5, all against Macron and his policy

November 25, 2019

On Saturday, tens of thousands of people demonstrated in thirty cities to protest violence against …

Articles

Macron is afraid of social unrest…. and rightly so!

November 18, 2019

“In Lyon-II, we have students who go hungry:” the president of this university, Nathalie Dompnier, …

Articles

Iraq: Protests Erupt, Government Scrambles

November 6, 2019

The population of Iraq flooded into the streets of Baghdad this October, calling for a …

Articles

It’s a global fight…

November 4, 2019

From Algiers to Santiago, From Port-au-Prince to Hong Kong, and from Bayreuth to Panama, from …

Articles

From one revolt to another: time to change the system?

October 28, 2019

With one million demonstrators in the streets of Santiago last Friday, the Chilean mass mobilisation …

Articles

Support railway workers against the law of maximum profit

October 21, 2019

On October 16th, a train accident in the Ardennes forest, at the Saint-Pierre-sur-Vence level crossing, …

Articles

Make them back down!

September 24, 2019

Last Saturday in Paris, the government deployed its heavy artillery: 7,500 police officers were mobilised, …

Articles

The U.S. Border Crisis: A Crisis of the Capitalist System

September 19, 2019

The capitalist system has created an international crisis of displaced people due to a convergence of factors. …

Articles

Make them back down!

September 16, 2019

Last Friday, Paris Public Transportation employees had the best response against the attack being prepared …

Articles

Hong Kong: Storm over Asia

August 30, 2019

August 30, 2019; An updated article based on an August 19, 2019 L’Étincelle Editorial All …

Articles

Ban layoffs and job cuts!

June 24, 2019

Over 5,000 people demonstrated last Saturday in Belfort against the planned 1,000 layoffs at General …

Articles

Against Macron and his “act 2”, a new round of fights.

June 3, 2019

The ballot boxes have just been put back into storage, and the government and the …

Articles

Algeria: against social unrest, Bouteflika’s clan real fake retreat

March 11, 2019

Algeria’s president, Bouteflika, announced he wouldn’t run for a fifth term… This clearly shows panic …

Articles

Social anger in Algeria

March 4, 2019

Despite the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators all over Algeria for two weeks, against Abdelaziz …

Forum Videos

The Challenges We Face Today: Short-Term Mobilizing or Organizing for Real Social Change

November 19, 2018

Revolutionary University, October 2018   We can go beyond resistance to the forces of capitalism …

Forum Videos

France: “All Together! General strike!” (Revolutionary University, Fall 2018)

November 16, 2018

Revolutionary University October 2018 France: “All Together! General strike!” This was was one of the …

Pamphlets

1968 – Be Realistic, Demand the Impossible!

May 1, 2018

There are certain years that are pivotal in history, when cataclysmic changes in consciousness take place and this paradigm shift spreads contagiously. …

Pamphlets

The Russian Revolution of 1917

March 16, 2018

Russian workers led the people of Russia in an effort to build a better world, and they reached out to help the rest of the international working class to do the same …

Pamphlets

The Paris Commune, 1871: When the Working Class Seized Power for the First Time

March 15, 2018

In 1871 the workers of Paris were “ready to storm heaven.” …

Articles

The Strike at River Rouge: Detroit 1941

March 13, 2018

In 1941, tens of thousands of auto workers at the Ford River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan, overcame many obstacles to build a union from the bottom up …

Pamphlets

The 1912 Bread and Roses Strike, Lawrence Massachusetts

November 17, 2017

In 1912, in the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, 25,000 workers went on strike. …

Forum Videos

Short Term Mobilizing or Organizing For Real Social Change?

October 31, 2017

Revolutionary University October 2017 Presentation by Revolutionary Workers Group (Speak Out Now) activists, followed by …

Articles

Trump & the Arrogance Of The 1%

July 24, 2017

People are fed up with the politicians who are running this country. Recent polls show …

Forum Videos

Ramsey Kanaan: Organizing in Hard Times – Lessons from the Anti-Poll Tax Movement in the U.K.

March 2, 2017

Presentation by Ramsey Kanaan followed by Q&A On January 21, millions of people showed their …

L'Étincelle Editorials

Electoral show and class struggle

December 1, 2016

Satisfactory! That is how Hollande dared qualify his presidency, before renouncing another bid, making way …

Forum Videos

Joel Beinin: Workers and the Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt

October 25, 2016

Revolutionary University October 2016 Joel Beinin, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East …

Forum Videos

Robin Kelley: Revisiting Black Marxism in the Wake of Black Lives Matter

October 23, 2016

Revolutionary University October 2016 Robin D. G. Kelley, is Distinguished Professor of History and Black …

Articles

Racism – A Cancer of This Society

May 1, 2016

We live in a society based on divisions. The main division, which is hardly ever …

Forum Videos

Dr. Susan Weissman: The Life of Victor Serge

March 13, 2016

Revolutionary University, March 2016 Dr. Susan Weissman is Professor of Politics at St. Mary’s College …

Pamphlets

The 1934 Minneapolis General Strike

September 1, 2015

The Minneapolis strikes of 1934 have always occupied a special place in the historical understanding of the Trotskyist movement …

Articles

The Origins of the Police

August 20, 2015

For most of human history, daily issues of society were settled by people themselves, in …

Leaflets

A Nation of Mass Incarceration

August 20, 2015

The US has the largest prison population in the world. With five percent of the …

Articles

Affluenza?! WTF?

February 1, 2014

Last December, Ethan Couch, a white 16-year old killed four people while driving drunk. He …

Articles

Some Fightbacks of 2013 Around the World

January 1, 2014

The following is just a short list of some of the social struggles that were …

Articles

Fightback Section (April 2013)

April 1, 2013

Hong Kong, March 28 – PRESENT – More than 400 Hong Kong port workers have …

Articles

The Other Civil War: The Railroad Strike Of 1877

April 1, 2013

In 1877, a strike erupted across the U.S. which newspapers called an “insurrection” and even …

Articles

Fightback Section (March 2013)

March 1, 2013

Warren, Michigan – February 28th Workers at a stamping plant in Warren, Michigan went on …

Articles

Out of the Kitchens and on to the Picketlines! The Women’s Emergency Brigade and the GM Sit-Down Strike

March 1, 2013

The Flint Sit-Down Strike at General Motors in 1936-37 was the biggest strike in the …

Articles

The Fight Against Layoffs in France

March 1, 2013

The strike at Citroën Aulnay In France, just like in the U.S., the big auto …

Articles

The Fightback Section

February 1, 2013

Athens, Greece – January 25 Starting January 16th, Greek metro workers went on strike against …

Pamphlets

Striking Flint

May 16, 2010

Remembering the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike, Genora Johnson …

Pamphlets

The Oakland General Strike (1946) – by Stan Weir

May 16, 2010

1946 Oakland General Strike, recalled by a participant: Stan Weir …

Pamphlets

May Day – Made in the USA, Exported to the World

May 16, 2010

One of the most important working-class holidays originated in the United States in the 1880s …

Pamphlets

The IWW by James Cannon

May 16, 2010

The Industrial Workers of the World was founded in Chicago in 1905 …

Pamphlets

The Seattle General Strike of 1919

May 16, 2010

The Seattle General Strike as recorded by the strikers, recounting the extraordinary story of the working people of an entire city coming together to run their city in their interests. …

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