Decline of US imperialism catapults Iran’s regional leadership

A decade ago after the imperialist “Arab Spring”, Iran, Russia and Syria were strengthened. USA, Israel and Saudi Arabia despair. To reverse the crisis of hegemony, Biden starts a new offensive. Extracted from the Blog of the Grupo Emancipação do Trabalho On the first day of the Biden government, a new operation was launched to invade Syria, … Continue reading Decline of US imperialism catapults Iran’s regional leadership

Gerry Downing: Political Decline and Centrist Capitulation

The public difference of opinion among comrades of the Liaison Committee for the Fourth International (LCFI) about the Trump insurrection on Jan 6th has given rise to a rather odd and self-contradictory polemic from Gerry Downing, the possessor of the stolen website of the now defunct Socialist Fight group, which very rarely publishes a serious … Continue reading Gerry Downing: Political Decline and Centrist Capitulation

White Supremacist Facebook Bans and Threatens Anti-Racists for ‘Hate Speech’ Against Trump Fascist Insurrectionists

Zuckerburg’s racist crew funded Trump GOP right up to the Washington, DC attack According to Facebook the comment below constitutes ‘hate speech’.  ‘Hate speech’ apparently against fascist terrorists and Trump’s thugs who attacked the Capitol Building in Washington DC on January 6th. The author of the comment (myself) was given a ban from Facebook for … Continue reading White Supremacist Facebook Bans and Threatens Anti-Racists for ‘Hate Speech’ Against Trump Fascist Insurrectionists

Johnson’s UK Trumpism: A Deadly Crisis

The demise of Donald Trump in the US has put the spotlight on Johnson’s equally squalid and mendacious government in Britain. The contradictions of the situation in Britain, like that in the US, have been exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic. In addition, there is the developing disaster of Johnson’s hard Brexit deal, which is already … Continue reading Johnson’s UK Trumpism: A Deadly Crisis

Bourgeois Democracy and Workers Democracy

The statement by the Latin American comrades dissociating them from our position of defence of the outcome of the November US elections from Trump’s Beer Hall putsch misunderstands the relationship between bourgeois democracy and workers democracy, misunderstands key elements of US social reality, and confuses the struggle against imperialist wars abroad with the defence of … Continue reading Bourgeois Democracy and Workers Democracy

Differences in the LCFI

https://tmb1917.blogspot.com/2021/01/acerca-de-nuestras-diferencias-en-el.html About our differences over the Trumpist invasion of the Capitol Bolshevik Militant Tendency (Argentina) –  Frente Comunista dos Trabalhadores (Brazil) –  Socialist Workers League (USA) –  Sections of the Secretariat of the Americas of the Liaison Committee for the Fourth International 1. There are differences within our international current about the current process of … Continue reading Differences in the LCFI

LCFI sections’ statements on Trump’s Washington Beer-Hall Coup

Trotskyist Faction This article was originally agreed as a Liaison Committee For the Fourth International statement and published on 12 Jan. However since it was published, some differences have emerged with comrades in Latin America about the call for a military bloc with Biden and state forces defending the legitimacy of his election, and in … Continue reading LCFI sections’ statements on Trump’s Washington Beer-Hall Coup

Twitter Squirm over Trump’s Fascist Insurrection

The graphics below are self-explanatory. For years Twitter allowed Donald Trump to incite racial hatred, misogyny and and all kinds of bigotry on its platforms. It allowed him to applaud naked police brutality against Black Lives Matter protesters, to promote hatred against Palestinians and applaud Israeli terrorism and genocidal policies against them. It allowed him … Continue reading Twitter Squirm over Trump’s Fascist Insurrection

Why did Trump lose? A materialistic analysis

Humberto Rodriguez “The 2020 elections bury once and for all the mistaken notion that the 2016 elections were a historic accident, an American freak. Donald Trump won more than 70 million votes, the second largest vote in American history (behind only Joe Biden, who was elected). Nationally, he has more than 47% turnout in his … Continue reading Why did Trump lose? A materialistic analysis