Short Term Mobilizing or Organizing For Real Social Change?
Revolutionary University October 2017 Presentation by Revolutionary Workers Group (Speak Out Now) activists, followed by Q&A and discussion.
Updates from Germany and France (Revolutionary University 2017)
Revolutionary University October 2017 France: In The Streets, Workplaces, Universities, Schools & Hospitals… Everybody Hates Macron Michelle Verdier, an activist in the French Trotskyist group Fraction L’Etincelle The Myth Of The Social Democratic State and The Reality of Life in Germany Today Paula Anders, German activist in the Revolutionär Sozialistische Organisation
Carol Dansereau: The Environmental Crisis – Where It Comes From. How We Can Get Beyond It
Revolutionary University October 2017 Q&A The Environmental Crisis – Where It Comes From. How We Can Get Beyond It Carol Dansereau, an environmental activist, attorney and author based in Seattle
Trump: Making the Rich Richer Again
It’s been a year since the election of Trump and it couldn’t be any clearer that this is an administration that only represents the richest of the rich. For those workers who may have thought that he would fight in their corner, Trump has made it clear: he’s in the opposite corner with his gloves […]
Sexual harassment: Breaking the silence everywhere… at work too
Following the revelations about Harvey Weinstein’s case, more and more women have started to talk on social networks, and they took to the streets on October 29th to condemn sexual harassment. Media engagement on the topic is reinforced by the avalanche of well-known figures denounced for harassment or rape. Police everywhere, justice nowhere Macron […]
Raj Patel: A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
Revolutionary University October 2017 A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: Raj Patel, author and Research Professor at the University of Texas at Austin will discuss his new book (coauthored with Jason W. Moore).
Trump’s Tax Plan: Enriching The Already Rich
Donald Trump and the GOP got closer to one of their main goals: reforming the tax system. The Senate passed a budget bill for $1.5 trillion in tax cuts. Trump says that his proposed tax plan is good for ordinary people, but all it does is make the rich richer. The U.S. tax system already […]
Sexual harassment: Breaking the silence… at work too
Asked about the Harvey Weinstein story during his October 15th long interview on the TF1 channel, Emmanuel Macron shed a perfunctory tear about the daily violence experienced by women. In a surge of political courage, he is about to… cancel Weinstein’s legion of honour. This really must frighten all the rapists in the world… With […]
Taking Aim At Unemployment… Or At The Unemployed?
On October 15th, Emmanuel Macron held the floor for over an hour on the TF1 channel. He is happy with all his policies: rulings on the Labour Code, increase in social security contributions, decrease in individual housing assistance, cutting the wealth tax. He is also fine with his contempt for workers, who don’t belong to […]
To Join The October 10th Strike: A Step Toward A General Movement
While visiting Corrèze, Emmanuel Macron was heckled by the workers at GM&S, an automobile subcontractor, threatened by 157 layoffs. He had to declare that instead of “stirring up trouble” these demonstrators had better look for a job. In early September, after the first demonstrations against his rulings that change the labour code in favour of […]
Puerto Rico: Profits Over People
Conditions in Puerto Rico continue to deteriorate after the island was leveled when Hurricane Maria hit on September 20. The vast majority of its electric and telecommunications infrastructure has been destroyed while half of the island is still without drinking water. Many hospitals have been without electricity or are relying on old diesel generators to […]
We Can Learn From the Russian Revolution
October 2017 is the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, when the workers of Russia, fed up with the misery of capitalist rule, overthrew the capitalists and took power into their own hands in the most democratic revolution in world history. The state they established, the Soviet Union was a beacon of hope for a […]
Catalonia: From Anti-Referendum Repression To Social Unrest?
With clubs and rubber bullets, repression hit the independence referendum organised on October 1st in Catalonia. 844 people were injured, two of them seriously. The Spanish government deployed 10,000 police officers and civilian guards to close the polling stations and seize election materials. This is how Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s government opposed ballot papers. To […]