5th March marked one year since the death of Hugo Chávez, the great Venezuelan revolutionary, who was an inspiration to the masses in Latin America and across the world
The other evening, within a matter of five minutes, I sent messages to socialist colleagues in France, Spain, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania via Facebook and received answers back. The content was more social than socialist but I could have easily been organizing a Europe-wide campaign or demonstration, writes David Eade.
Dr Tomasz Pierscionek provides an analysis of the situation in Ukraine
Uncapped, almost unconditional, the vast sums of public money we give to farmers buy only destruction, writes George Monbiot.
It seems that the drug war in Mexico has driven the drug gangs deep into the remotest areas of the jungles of Central America
Bread and circuses have always been a central aspect of ruling class hegemony and a means of keeping the masses in a soporific state
Lenin discusses these two topics in section four of chapter one of The State and Revolution (1917)
It has always been a secret ambition of mine to have a Bagatz ruling bearing my name
Captain Witold Pilecki was a Polish hero who, amongst many of his heroic deeds in World War II, volunteered to be captured and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp ("Auschwitz")
This government let the farming lobby rip up the rulebook on soil protection - and now we are suffering the consequences, writes George Monbiot.