Pandemics: How the October Revolution Fought and Won
As billions of people struggle to contain the coronavirus inside a world system of exploitation and oppression, one thing is clear: no government can be trusted to safeguard their population from suffering and dying.
By Martin Ralph
At the beginning of September Covid-19 had led to 863,535 deaths, 26 million cases...
German Government and Volkswagen: Populism and Repression in the South African Pandemic
The German government decided, through the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), together with South African Volkswagen, to support the battle against Coronavirus in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.
By Cesar Neto
The initiative was presented to the press in June. An important local newspaper reported this with the...
The UK Economy – to hell in a hand cart!
While Johnson is pretending to throw the “kitchen sink” at the British economy, as with COVID-19 containment and prevention, many in the health, education and other public services say it is too little too late. The “kitchen sink” is meant to save capital not workers.
By Peter Windeler
Figures show that...
Johnson’s throws sand in workers’ eyes and £2 billion into bosses’ pockets
On Wednesday 8 July, the government of Boris Johnson in the person of Chancellor Sunak Rishi, announced that the government will make available £2bn pounds to mitigate the economic and social crisis caused by the Coronavirus.
By Etiandro Costa
The government admits the following on the gov.uk website. The global economy...
NHS Student nurses lead the fight for pay and funding
Socialist Voice interviewed Dafydd Jones, a student nurse at Swansea
SV. As a mental health student nurse in Swansea you participated in one of many demonstrations on 8 August, how did the event go?
The march was around 200 strong, which isn’t bad for Swansea, especially given the current circumstances. Nurses...
Zhiv’e Belarus! (Long live Belarus!) All Support for the Belarusian People’s Uprising! Out with Lukashenko!
We write this article in the heat of the initial events in Belarus, around the "presidential elections". Without claiming to provide a detailed analysis of what is happening in the neighboring country at the moment, we would like to express some first impressions and a policy outline for a...
German Imperialism and Volkswagen: Dirty Games Continue
German imperialism and its companies have a long history of land grabbing, theft of mineral and agricultural wealth, as well as overexploitation of workers. And their opponents have been treated with violence, imprisonment, torture, murder and genocide. In this text we make a parallel of this process of colonial...
The English Slavers and the “Battle of Statues” at Bristol
The images of the statue of slave trader Edward Colston being toppled, defaced and "strangled" by hundreds of protesters, and then thrown into the river on the British port city of Bristol, will be on our minds for a long time. The truth is that something like this is...
Their Symbols and Ours
The impressive wave of protests unleashed by the murder of George Floyd in the United States not only crossed the borders of that country – impacting on a new world reality – but it offers particularly exciting episodes, typical of hot periods of history.
By Daniel Sugasti
One of those moments occurred...
Join the Marches! Unity in Struggle! Silence is Violence!
“You can’t have capitalism without racism”
International Socialist League leaflet
After George Floyd’s death and 400 years of a “knee on our neck”, hatred of governments, police and symbols of inequality and oppression has burst out onto the streets. The diversity of the Black-led protests appeared across the world in unprecedented...
