Two weeks on from the magnitude 7.0 quake which killed up to 200,000 people, over a million Haitians are still without access to housing, water or basic healthcare facilities. Read more…
Capitalism cannot save Haiti
Jan 30
REVOLUTION Nepal is born!
Jan 19
A new section of Revolution has been founded in Nepal. Read more…
A mass, direct action movement has broken out in Austria against planned attacks on the university education system.
It all started when The Fine Art Academy was occupied by a small number of students who were protesting at plans by the Austrian education ministry to introduce a three-tier degree system. Students were furious that many of them would be unable to access the higher ‘masters’ qualification and that their choice over what subjects to focus on would be dictated from above.
John from London asked Roman from REVOLUTION Austria to report from inside the occupation. Read more…
Every year on Columbus Day weekend, members of a neo-Nazi organization going by the name of “Keystone United” – formally the Keystone State Skinheads – flock to Philadelphia from all over the state of Pennsylvania to lay a wreath upon a statue of Leif Ericson in “commemoration” of his journey and, later, the settlement of the first Europeans in North America. Leif Ericson Day, as it is known formally in the United States, is a 
federally recognized holiday; however, neo-fascists utilize October 9th every year as a way to profess their virulently deceptive notions of Euro-centric superiority, racial and ethnic bigotry, and every other conceivable type of demagoguery intended to win over downtrodden and embittered – due in large part to the recurrent crises of capitalism – “white” workers and youth to Fascism through strategically-subtle “cultural” events such as the kind mentioned above. Nevertheless, their day did not go according to plan; something was standing in their way…
n September 15, the Swedish parliament opened again after a long summer break. In the mean time, 2,500 people gathered in Stockholm to protest the government’s right-wing policies. The main slogan was: ”We won’t pay for the capitalist crisis”. The protest against the right-wing coalition government is a yearly event since 2007. Read more here.
The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 was supposed to be proof that socialism cannot work. The tiny minority of multi-millionaires that run the world have been trying to drive home a “lesson” to young people and workers ever since – that there is no alternative to the inequality, poverty, and chaos of the market; that global capitalism is the only system that can work. They want us to believe that any attempt to get rid of capitalism would end in dictatorship, bread queues, and eventual collapse; just like what happened in Russia.
The system, however, that collapsed in Russia in 1991 was not socialist. Despite all the red flags, the red stars, and all the statues of Lenin, it was a million miles from socialism. By 1991, the rulers of the Soviet Union had trampled on every one of the principles of the socialist revolution led by Lenin and Trotsky in 1917.
The Soviet Union was not socialist; it was Stalinist.
What’s the difference? It’s hard to know where to start…
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Across University of California (UC) campuses, thousands came out in protest against proposed furloughs for teachers, job reductions for campus workers, and a staggering 30% increase in tuition costs for students. School administration and government officials blamed budget shortfalls; however, that did not stop the protests from expanding not only across all the UC campuses but to other California-based universities as well.
Sights set on Steel City
Sep 26
A week of demonstrations, of teach-ins, and of marches is currently underway in the city of Pittsburgh ahead of the G-20 summit set to take place beginning on September 24. In just a few days, some of the most influential people in the world – finance ministers made up from the world’s leading economies, the governor of the European Central Bank, representatives from the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and others – will wrangle with each other over how to effectively “handle” the fallout caused by the capitalist crisis. Despite how the G-20 seeks to portray itself, it is – like every other convention of the ruling elite – quite literally a battleground where rival capitalist powers engage one another to see if they can weaken their foreign competitors and, thus, strengthen their own class of capitalists through a variety of protectionist trade measures, interest rate cuts, and deficit spending.
If the army recruiters thought before that we would go away and never come back…they were dead wrong.
Tomorrow is set to be one of the largest demonstrations against the army’s pilot program to gain new recruits – particularly young people –to join the military by utilizing a wide variety of first-person shooter video games and real-life scenarios to demonstrate the “enjoyment” that can be had fighting in wars. Unlike video games, however, life does not come with a restart button nor is it structured around a system of re-spawning.
On August 30, teachers and university workers represented by both AFSCME Local 1723 and the Temple Association of University Professionals Local 4531 will stage a demonstration picket outside the convocation ceremony in protest of the refusal of the university administration to negotiate a new labor contract. The actions of the school administration can be summarized thusly: the deprecation of education through the diversion of funds away from actual education and into the pockets of the already wealthy school bureaucrats.