[Podcast] Class struggle in Africa: part one

This week’s episode of International Marxist Radio is the first of a special two-part series looking at the class struggle in Sub-Saharan Africa. Ben Morken, a leading comrade of the International Marxist Tendency based in South Africa, discusses the current political situation in a number of African countries, which constitute a bubbling cauldron of class struggle.

Hollywood is known as a “dream factory,” but for film and television writers it’s become simply a factory like any other, with all the drudgery and exploitation that entails. Sea changes in the industry brought about by streaming and artificial intelligence (AI) technology have made writing all but untenable as a career. To confront what it calls an “existential crisis”, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) presented the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) with a list of demands including major changes to how writers are paid, staffing guarantees, and safeguards against being replaced by AI. After six weeks of negotiations, the AMPTP refused to even counter many of the key demands, so with a historic 97.85 per cent authorization vote the WGA declared a strike. 

在20世纪60年代，尤其是在激进的学生圈子里，流传着许多奇思妙想。其中最有害和最错误的是马尔库塞、阿多诺和霍克海默所代表的观点，即“新资本主义”已经演化出了避免资本主义危机的方法，工人阶级已经作为“富裕”社会的被动消费者融入了这一体系。正如本文作者丹尼尔·摩利解释的那样，这些都是所谓的法兰克福学派的伪马克思主义思想。（本文原文发表于2023年4月21日。译文原载于工民新文。由我方发现后自行校对和重发。校对者：洛西）

Il primo turno delle elezioni presidenziali in Turchia non ha decretato alcun vincitore. L’attuale presidente Erdogan (49,3% dei voti) sarà costretto per la prima volta al secondo turno; il suo rivale sarà Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, del Chp, Partito popolare repubblicano.

För 20 år sedan inleddes den USA-ledda invasionen av Irak. Sedan dess har landet slitits itu av krig, sekterism och fundamentalism. För att få ett slut på imperialismens grymhet måste vi avskaffa kapitalismen.

Israel fyller 75 år i ett tillstånd av en aldrig tidigare skådad kris. Den 14 maj 1948 utropades Israel efter att en långvarig terrorkampanj av den sionistiska armén mot palestinierna hade dödat tusentals och fördrivit 750 000 från sina byar och hem. Denna dag markerar Nakba (katastrof) för palestinierna. Sedan dess har Israel utkämpat många krig och ständigt undertryckt det palestinska motståndet för att befästa sin makt.

Αναλυτικό άρθρο που εξηγεί γιατί η αυξανόμενη παγκόσμια πείνα αποτελεί συνέπεια του καπιταλιστικού τρόπου παραγωγής και όχι του «υπερπληθυσμού».