Recently I changed my group affiliation to Kasama since the groups I was previously affiliated with I have since cut formal ties with; though I still hold fraternal relations with both the Youth for Socialist Action (YSA) and the REVOLUTION (REVO) "international" I am no longer an acting member. For the former it is a mater of politics while for the latter it is simple.

Back in the beginning I joined the YSA because it was the political group which they introduced me to Leftist...

[From the Fracción Trotskista, ft-ci.org – Unofficial translation]

Fourth day of disturbances by young immigrants
Stockholm is burning

By Diego Sacchi
Friday, May 24, 2013

The news that arrives from Sweden is usually associated with the presentation of the Nobel Prize or the “quality” of life of its population, in a country frequently presented by right wingers as an example of civility. But, for four days, the poor districts of Stockholm,...

[From the Fracción Trotskista, ft-ci.org – Unofficial translation]

Down with the Assad dictatorship
Israel and imperialism, out of Syria

By Claudia Cinatti
Saturday, May 11, 2013

In less than 48 hours, the State of Israel launched two rounds of aerial bombardments against military targets on the outskirts of Damascus, allegedly to prevent a quantity of more sophisticated missiles, of Iranian manufacture, from reaching Hezbollah, the Lebanese...

Comrades, I have done some thinking recently, and I think that it is time that I write another revleft blog for me to organize my thoughts.

Over the past several months, I have become increasingly interested in Left communism, and the sort of ultra-Left critiques that it has given the Soviet Union, China, Marxist-Leninist and Leninist theory, etc. At the risk of sounding sectarian (indeed, sectarianism really bothers me, and I'd consider myself a pan-Leftist of sorts), I think that...

Today I went to a "Socialism Day", organised by Socialist Alternative, the Dutch branch of the Committee for a Workers' International. "Socialism" is a name regularly used by several CWI sections for open meetings that feature discussion, mostly introduced by CWI members.

The observant reader might note that I also went to a meeting organised by the SP branch in Breda recently with the same name. There is a simple reason for this: Once upon a time, back in the...