CLIMATE CHANGE: CAPITALISM IN CRISIS

  Flooding in Brazil 2020.  Source: CGTN   By Rufus Tyler   “State of the environment and the Socialist versus the Capitalist response to It”.   This article will discuss the extent of the problem by covering two main points:(a) Anthropogenic (man-made) climate change and its adverse effects and (b) the effect of global warming […]

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1968 – THE YEAR OF REVOLUTION

  Soviet tanks roll into Prague in Czechoslovakia on August 21st, 1968. Copyright: www.historytoday.com   By Rufus Tyler   1968 was a turbulent year for the bourgeois. There was widespread discontent in France, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Mexico, Pakistan, and widespread anti-war protests in the English-speaking countries. 1968 marked the high tide of capitalism, there had been […]

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THE CARNATION REVOLUTION OF 1974

    By Rufus Tyler   Portugal is a small country in Southwestern Europe with about 10.8 million people (2017 estimate) the median age is 42.2. It’s about a third the size of New Zealand. It borders Spain and the Atlantic Ocean. Since joining the then European Community in 1986 the economy has become increasingly […]

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ALLENDE’S LEGACY

By Rufus Tyler   In September 1970 Salvador Allende was elected into government at the head of a left-wing coalition, the Unidad Popular (UP). Even though the coalition was reformist, the bourgeoisie still feared the revolutionary potential of the UP government:

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DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM

By Rufus Tyler   “Materialism” as a philosophical notion means that all things in the universe are made of the same thing – matter. There’s no heaven or hell, no ghosts or spirits. Materialism is a version of monism   Matter is not a social construct, it exists independent of human ideas and thought. This […]

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