What If Generation Z Were Communists?The ongoing high school student rebellion has sparked references to revolution everywhere — on posters and in slogans. Everywhere, capitalists seek to discipline the youth, subjugate them, and lock them away in isolation, brutality, and violence. What if Generation Z were the ones to open up the possibility of a break with the past and a new horizon? What if the future to which Gen Z aspires were, quite simply, communism? This article stems from a reflection fueled by (and intended for) the debates organized in the strike classes at the University of Mirail, which has been occupied since the start of the high school students’ blockades and mobilizations.
https://www.leftvoice.org/what-if-generation-z-were-communists/The role of China and Russia in MyanmarAmid all the chaos in the world, one development buried under the headlines was the ‘election’ of General Min Aung Hlaing as the 11th president of Myanmar in April. It was he who led the military coup that overthrew the elected civilian government in 2021, and it is he who has brutally governed the country and repressed its masses as military chief ever since. A military strongman naming himself president seems like a trite, obvious step. But behind this particular situation lies the growing influence of China, and to a lesser extent Russia, over the country, while the West is nowhere to be found. Chinese capitalism trumpets the fact that it does not have the same history of imperialist meddling as the West – and that is true. It claims, instead, that it is only interested in business, investment and development. But in Myanmar, in China’s ‘near-abroad’, we see how it has supplanted the West, and has been drawn into playing a nakedly imperialist role, politically, economically and militarily.
https://marxist.com/the-role-of-china-and-russia-in-myanmarRalph Miliband: Moving On (1976)Twenty years after 1956, the main problem for the socialist left in Britain is still that of its own organisation into an effective political formation, able to attract a substantial measure of support and to hold out a genuine promise of further growth
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