Social Democracy
Spain’s “Progressive Government” Is Already Under Siege
The PSOE-Podemos coalition promises to roll back recent attacks on labor rights and provide a negotiated solution to the Catalan crisis. But the new...
The new PSOE/UP government in Spain (and left in Portugal and...
by Klaus Dräger
Since 7 January 2020, there is a new government in place in Spain. PSOE's Pedro Sanchez is again Prime Minister. He is...
A Very Kautsky Christmas
The oppressed of the Middle Ages drew on Christian teachings to develop a moral critique of their era's inequality and unfairness.
By Loren Balhorn
Dec. 25, 201
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“Dark Day for Everyone Who Believes in Justice”: U.K. Tories Defeat...
December 13, 2019
The British Conservative Party has won a decisive majority in Thursday’s general election, winning seats in Labour Party strongholds and paving the...
A Left Labour Gov’t Would Weaken Imperialism, Work for Peace
What it comes down to is that, for the first time, Labour has a leadership which, in addition to being pro-working class and pro-poor,...
European Social Policy: Progressive Regression
By Wolfgang Streeck
November 2018
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tEuropean social policy changed with the evolution of European and global capitalism, the scope and shape of European-level international institutions, the...
Brexit: imperialist Britain faces existential crisis
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We are reproducing here an interesting article on the probable demise of "imperialist Britain" as a result of the Brexit crisis.There is no...
Blowback. Brexit and its aftermath
By Klaus Dräger
June 30, 2016
Commenting on his EU referendum pledge in 2013 and the referendum on Scottish independence, British prime minister David Cameron claimed in...
(Counter)Reforms: Turning Europeans into semi-Slaves
Precarious work: Europe’s new reserve army
by Harald Schumann and Elisa Simantke
Oct. 25, 2017
Millions of Europeans in temporary, part-time or bogus self-employed contracts can only...
Lenin and World Revolution
Lenin and world revolution
Volume II
Review by Paul D'Amato
Lenin’s Political Thought:
Theory and Practice in the Democratic and Socialist Movement
By Neil Harding
Review of Vol. 2
THE SECOND...