update from Socialist Resistance

 

COP26: zero carbon by 2050 is far too late! If dire warnings resolved the environmental crisis we would be heading for victory, argues Alan Thornett.  Read on >>> Financing the climate Michael Roberts asks who will foot the bill for the climate emergency?  Read on >>> Eco‑socialist strategies in the anthropocene Governments refuse to put climate protection before capital interests. The climate movement now has to build up countervailing power from below argue Christian Zeller. Read on >>> Remembrance day: a travesty of the truth Marxist historian Neil Faulkner takes a critical look at the official commemorations. Read on >>> Yorkshire cricket – god’s own white county  Dave Kellaway writes on the problems now facing Yorkshire Country Cricket Club. Read on >>> After the coup in Sudan Joseph Daher analyses the state of the mass struggle for revolution one month after the attempted coup. Read on >>> Nicaragua elections: Daniel Ortega still dictator Having arrested and jailed his most significant rivals weeks before the election, President Daniel Ortega was reelected on November 7, writes Dan La Botz.  Read on >>> What future for Hong Kong? Au Loong-Yu describes the political repression that has engulfed the city since the Communist Party-imposed national security became law last year. Read on >>> Mass protests in Poland for women's rights Tens of thousands of protesters gathered in towns and cities on 6-8 November 2021, demanding the right of women to choose, after the death of a pregnant woman in hospital, reports Jan Malewski. Read on >>> Can global capitalism endure? In this long theoretical article William i Robinson asks if global capitalism can still endure. Read on >>> Introduction to Marxist Theory Selected writings by Ernest Mandel Introduction by Ian Parker £15, €18, $20, 304 pages   Introduction to Marxist Theory contains a selection of essays on key subjects Mandel worked on: the theory of the state, imperialism, reformism, and bureaucracy. “The Leninist Theory of Organisation” is an influential essay on class consciousness and organisation. The “Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory” was widely used as a textbook in classes on Marxist economics.   BUY THE BOOK Anti*Capitalist Resistance Socialist Resistance is part of a new revolutionary Marxist organisation in England and Wales, Anti*Capitalist Resistance.  Read what ACR stands for here. Join ACR Scotland ecosocialist.scot has been set up by supporters of Socialist Resistance living in Scotland to campaign for ecosocialism. It aims to provide news and views about Scottish and International politics. ecosocialist.scot Follow the Fourth International  Check out Socialist Resistance Read International Viewpoint Sign up for this newsletter