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Declaración de la Juventud Revolucionaria de Ecuador: El imperialismo siembra muerte en Siria. ¡Solidaridad con el pueblo sirio!
Translated by Red Phoenix staff. Syria is an example of inter-imperialist disputes, of its inhuman and violent character. Unfortunately, as always happens, while the powerful enrich themselves with the “business” of war, it is the people who pay the consequences and today we are living through the worst humanitarian crisis of recent decades: With, at…
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Declaración del Partido Laborista Estadounidense: ¡Imperialismo estadounidense, manos fuera de Siria!
The American Party of Labor condemns the military strike on Syria on April 13, 2018, conducted by a NATO coalition consisting of Britain and France with the United States at the lead. This attack not only continues the imperialist attacks on Syria, but has put the entire world risk. It was only last week that…
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Oscar López Rivera: “El colonialismo es un crimen contra la humanidad”
By Ekim Kilic Originally published in Evrensel (04/09/2018) Under US law, Puerto Rico is defined as an “unincorporated territory of the United States.” The Caribbean Island declared bankruptcy in May 2017 due to public debt. Then, in September 2017, it suffered massive devastation caused by Hurricane Maria. Oscar López Rivera, a pro-independence popular leader of…
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En China se está consolidando el capitalismo, no el socialismo.
From: En Marcha (Central Organ of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador), November 22, 29, December 5 and 13 2017. Translation by George Gruenthal. During the 1980s, China’s economy was already shifting to “market forces,” a process that deepened with the privatization of state-owned companies in the 1990s. During that period China established State monopoly capitalism,…
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¡Revuelta en las montañas! ¡Huelga de maestros!
On a rainy day, dozens and dozens of teachers and other workers in solidarity from three or more counties lined the streets and stood outside of the capitol building, demanding better wages and conditions. Several speakers, including teachers and union representatives, spoke passionately about what was going on with respect to the plight of the…
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Tras los fracasos de Spencer y Heimbach, se reafirma el compromiso de rechazar cualquier plataforma para los fascistas.
The last several weeks saw two major victories for the emerging anti-fascist forces in the United States. First, on March 5th, Richard Spencer’s talk at Michigan State University faced overwhelming opposition, with elements of the Traditionalist Worker’s Party being driven off from the event, leaving a paltry audience of approximately a dozen people for Spencer’s…
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Hacia una teoría marxista de la adicción
Over the course of recent years, a trend has developed with respect to heroin and opioid addiction in America. In 2016, drug overdose was the leading cause of accidental death in the United States, due largely to dramatic increases in the abuse of prescription painkillers as well as heroin and fentanyl.1 Along with those who…
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Las luchas internas imperialistas en Siria y la caída de Afrin
Originally published in Evrensel (03/21/2018) Translation by Everensal staff. By Yusuf Karatas The struggle for hegemony in Syria – between the US and Russia – is becoming clearer in cities such as Afrin, Gutha, Idlib and Deir er-Zor. Perhaps, I should start with what should be said at the end. Just as the start of the military operation in…
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Selma Gürkan, presidenta del Partido Laborista de Turquía (EMEP): El debate sobre la unidad debe centrarse en las demandas.
Originally published in Evrensel (03/21/2018) Translation by Everensal staff. We talked about the 2019 elections and the discussions on alliances with the Labour Party (EMEP) Chairwoman Selma Gürkan. AKP [The Justice and Development Party] and MHP [Nationalist Movement Party] declared that they will enter the elections in 2019 as a ‘Presidential Alliance’; this led to…
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Mensaje del Partido Laborista Estadounidense a la Asociación Kurda Estadounidense
The following message was read by a comrade of the American Party of Labor at the American Kurdish Association’s annual Newroz celebration on March 17, 2018. As proud supporters of the legacy of Comrade Stalin, we have upheld since our foundation the immutable rights of self-determination for all nations. We are thus mindful that as…
