If we want to overcome the barbarism of capitalism, then the need for the kind of clear, intransigent revolutionary politics that Rosa Luxemburg’s life and thought exemplify is more urgent today than ever.

Leander Perez looks at how Maduro’s government is backtracking on Chavez’s nationalisation policy.

Amid escalating tensions between the U.S. and Chinese governments, a troubling campist discourse has been growing in the Canadian left. Socialists should side with neither the American nor the Chinese state – instead, we need to build internationalism from below.

The conversation held by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken with opponent Juan Guaidó is evidence that Joe Biden’s government will continue to use the former Venezuelan parliament member to appropriate all the resources Venezuela holds abroad, according to international analyst Laila Tajeldine, Sputnik reported.

Haiti’s corrupt, US-backed president is facing massive demonstrations after refusing to step down. US intervention has stifled Haitian democracy and impoverished its people — and the protests are an effort to fight back.

Les symboles du pain et des roses remontent à plus d’un siècle, alors que des ouvrières ont fait la grève parce qu’elles gagnaient un salaire trop maigre pour pouvoir se permettre du pain. Elles ont fait la grève pas seulement pour elles-mêmes, mais pour leurs familles qu’elles tentaient de nourrir. La subsistance, c’est tout. Mais les roses, c’est pour l’amour et la beauté, toutes ces autres choses sans quoi le pain ne vaut rien.

"In synthesis, we propose the following: tax the bourgeoisie and the corporations, locate embezzled resources and return them to the state coffers, and promote a democratic management of the state-owned companies. These steps, if combined with other economic policies such as planning, are sure to improve the state’s productive apparatus. This is a time that demands working-class unity and independence. A movement subordinated to the state will not be able to struggle successfully."

The minimum wage once went up hand in hand with the productivity of the U.S. economy. It should again.