Victor Osprey
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Greek social democracy (PASOK) really went through a phase like this in its 70s-80s international outlook, and it isn’t talked about enough in English language accounts about social democracy of that era.
September 18, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Greek social democracy (PASOK) really went through a phase like this in its 70s-80s international outlook, and it isn’t talked about enough in English language accounts about social democracy of that era.
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On this day in 1890, the great Claude McKay was born.
(My currrent project, with Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social, is on his post-WWI years between the East End docks & Marseille, including his decolonial ethnography of black & migrant Britain and left communist activism.
(My currrent project, with Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social, is on his post-WWI years between the East End docks & Marseille, including his decolonial ethnography of black & migrant Britain and left communist activism.
September 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
On this day in 1890, the great Claude McKay was born.
(My currrent project, with Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social, is on his post-WWI years between the East End docks & Marseille, including his decolonial ethnography of black & migrant Britain and left communist activism.
(My currrent project, with Liminal Waterway Countercultures @liminalwater.bsky.social, is on his post-WWI years between the East End docks & Marseille, including his decolonial ethnography of black & migrant Britain and left communist activism.
One of the saddest elements of the breakup of the USSR was the crushing of this ephemeral, hopeful moment between one system and the next, where people & workers on the ground took a stand to ensure the outcome would be democratic & socialist.
September 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
One of the saddest elements of the breakup of the USSR was the crushing of this ephemeral, hopeful moment between one system and the next, where people & workers on the ground took a stand to ensure the outcome would be democratic & socialist.
Revolutionary Roads and Marxism Today. Interview with Kevin Anderson – 9 July 2025 leftrenewal.org/interviews-e...
Revolutionary Roads and Marxism Today. Interview with Kevin Anderson – 9 July 2025 – Left Renewal Blog
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August 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Revolutionary Roads and Marxism Today. Interview with Kevin Anderson – 9 July 2025 leftrenewal.org/interviews-e...
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Tasmanians saw through the major parties' spin and neither achieved a majority. It is clear people want systemic solutions to the worsening housing, healthcare and ecological destruction crises. www.greenleft.org.au/content/tasm...
Tasmanian election results show anger at business as usual
Tasmanians saw through the major parties' spin and neither achieved a majority. Solomon Doyle argues it is clear people want systemic solutions to the worsening housing, healthcare and ecological dest...
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August 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Tasmanians saw through the major parties' spin and neither achieved a majority. It is clear people want systemic solutions to the worsening housing, healthcare and ecological destruction crises. www.greenleft.org.au/content/tasm...
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Nadia Refaei, co-president of Tasmanian Palestine Advocacy Network, believes Labor’s decision to recognise Palestine is an an empty gesture, offering the appearance of progress without changing material conditions. www.greenleft.org.au/content/pale...
Palestine: One state versus two states?
Nadia Refaei, co-president of Tasmanian Palestine Advocacy Network, told the recent national day of protest for Palestine that Labor’s decision to recognise Palestine is an an empty gesture, offering ...
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August 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Nadia Refaei, co-president of Tasmanian Palestine Advocacy Network, believes Labor’s decision to recognise Palestine is an an empty gesture, offering the appearance of progress without changing material conditions. www.greenleft.org.au/content/pale...
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⚡ The Russian shelling caused a blackout in mines in Donetsk Oblast.
On August 26, Russian shelling in Donetsk Oblast caused a power outage in several mines. As a result, 148 miners remain trapped underground, according to Mykhailo Volynets, head of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine.
On August 26, Russian shelling in Donetsk Oblast caused a power outage in several mines. As a result, 148 miners remain trapped underground, according to Mykhailo Volynets, head of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine.
August 26, 2025 at 10:56 AM
⚡ The Russian shelling caused a blackout in mines in Donetsk Oblast.
On August 26, Russian shelling in Donetsk Oblast caused a power outage in several mines. As a result, 148 miners remain trapped underground, according to Mykhailo Volynets, head of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine.
On August 26, Russian shelling in Donetsk Oblast caused a power outage in several mines. As a result, 148 miners remain trapped underground, according to Mykhailo Volynets, head of the Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Ukraine.
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‘The Barricades in Roubaix’ by A. Bénier from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 11 No. 33. June 25, 1931.
A report from the barricades erected as police attempt to smash the mass textile strike in Roubaix, France in the summer of 1931.
revolutionsnewsstand.com/2025/08/22/8...
A report from the barricades erected as police attempt to smash the mass textile strike in Roubaix, France in the summer of 1931.
revolutionsnewsstand.com/2025/08/22/8...
‘The Barricades in Roubaix’ by A. Bénier from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 11 No. 33. June 25, 1931.
A report from the barricades erected as police attempt to smash the mass textile strike in Roubaix, France in the summer of 1931. ‘The Barricades in Roubaix’ by A. Bénier from International Press C…
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August 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
‘The Barricades in Roubaix’ by A. Bénier from International Press Correspondence. Vol. 11 No. 33. June 25, 1931.
A report from the barricades erected as police attempt to smash the mass textile strike in Roubaix, France in the summer of 1931.
revolutionsnewsstand.com/2025/08/22/8...
A report from the barricades erected as police attempt to smash the mass textile strike in Roubaix, France in the summer of 1931.
revolutionsnewsstand.com/2025/08/22/8...
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Trade unionist, academic and socialist activist Alexis Vassiley tracks the rise and fall of union power in Western Australia's mining region his new book. www.greenleft.org.au/content/rise...
The rise and fall of union power in the Pilbara
Trade unionist, academic and socialist activist Alexis Vassiley tracks the rise and fall of union power in Western Australia's mining region his new book. Alex Salmon reviews.
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June 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Trade unionist, academic and socialist activist Alexis Vassiley tracks the rise and fall of union power in Western Australia's mining region his new book. www.greenleft.org.au/content/rise...
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The corporate media, economists and employers are complaining that productivity in Australia is too low. Some describe it as a national disaster. But is it even a problem? www.greenleft.org.au/content/why-...
Why raising productivity means increased exploitation
The corporate media, economists and employers are complaining that productivity in Australia is too low. Some describe it as a national disaster. But is it even a problem, asks Mary Merkenich?
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June 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
The corporate media, economists and employers are complaining that productivity in Australia is too low. Some describe it as a national disaster. But is it even a problem? www.greenleft.org.au/content/why-...
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The standing of Westminster politicians has been permanently shrunk. Don't let anyone away with the spin that Nigel Farage is popular. He is unpopular; only less so than most of the other senior WM figures.
August 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The standing of Westminster politicians has been permanently shrunk. Don't let anyone away with the spin that Nigel Farage is popular. He is unpopular; only less so than most of the other senior WM figures.
"For my part, I lay little stress on the distinction, whether a man is an anarchist or a socialist, because it seems to me that too much weight is attributed to this difference."
Joseph Dietzgen - German socialist, original & early dialectical materialist philosopher, tannery worker & journalist.
Joseph Dietzgen - German socialist, original & early dialectical materialist philosopher, tannery worker & journalist.
August 19, 2025 at 6:41 AM
"For my part, I lay little stress on the distinction, whether a man is an anarchist or a socialist, because it seems to me that too much weight is attributed to this difference."
Joseph Dietzgen - German socialist, original & early dialectical materialist philosopher, tannery worker & journalist.
Joseph Dietzgen - German socialist, original & early dialectical materialist philosopher, tannery worker & journalist.
One of the funniest things about Tolstoy’s anti-Tsarist Christian philosophy is along with the rejection of war, military service, serfdom, slavery, capital punishment etc there is a wholesale rejection of divorce + second marriages, as if that was just as bad as the rest lol
August 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
One of the funniest things about Tolstoy’s anti-Tsarist Christian philosophy is along with the rejection of war, military service, serfdom, slavery, capital punishment etc there is a wholesale rejection of divorce + second marriages, as if that was just as bad as the rest lol
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“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.” ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
August 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.” ~ Ursula K. Le Guin
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Speaking of left-wing alternatives to the British Labour Party, here is my article on The Red Front, the short-lived attempt by the Revolutionary Communist Party to build a left alliance in 1987.
DM me if you don’t have access.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
DM me if you don’t have access.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
July 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Speaking of left-wing alternatives to the British Labour Party, here is my article on The Red Front, the short-lived attempt by the Revolutionary Communist Party to build a left alliance in 1987.
DM me if you don’t have access.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
DM me if you don’t have access.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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"I'm not interested in politics because I don't eat, wear clothes, breathe air or live in a house. I'm incurable and when I die I'll bury myself."
The first issue of *People's Voice*, produced by Saor Éire in Cork.
www.leftarchive.ie/document/2405/
#Ireland #Politics #SaorÉire
The first issue of *People's Voice*, produced by Saor Éire in Cork.
www.leftarchive.ie/document/2405/
#Ireland #Politics #SaorÉire
June 20, 2025 at 7:33 AM
"I'm not interested in politics because I don't eat, wear clothes, breathe air or live in a house. I'm incurable and when I die I'll bury myself."
The first issue of *People's Voice*, produced by Saor Éire in Cork.
www.leftarchive.ie/document/2405/
#Ireland #Politics #SaorÉire
The first issue of *People's Voice*, produced by Saor Éire in Cork.
www.leftarchive.ie/document/2405/
#Ireland #Politics #SaorÉire
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#OnThisDay, 26th June 1986, a referendum was held in Ireland to remove the prohibition of divorce.
The referendum was unsuccessful, with divorce remaining prohibited until 1995.
www.leftarchive.ie/subject/2225/
The referendum was unsuccessful, with divorce remaining prohibited until 1995.
www.leftarchive.ie/subject/2225/
June 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
#OnThisDay, 26th June 1986, a referendum was held in Ireland to remove the prohibition of divorce.
The referendum was unsuccessful, with divorce remaining prohibited until 1995.
www.leftarchive.ie/subject/2225/
The referendum was unsuccessful, with divorce remaining prohibited until 1995.
www.leftarchive.ie/subject/2225/
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We won’t be silenced on Palestine
Green Left 1434 out now
Read it here 👉 www.greenleft.org.au/issue/1434
Green Left 1434 out now
Read it here 👉 www.greenleft.org.au/issue/1434
July 18, 2025 at 10:41 AM
We won’t be silenced on Palestine
Green Left 1434 out now
Read it here 👉 www.greenleft.org.au/issue/1434
Green Left 1434 out now
Read it here 👉 www.greenleft.org.au/issue/1434
The opponents of the Australian Labor Party always make it sound way cooler than it actually was.
July 19, 2025 at 3:58 AM
The opponents of the Australian Labor Party always make it sound way cooler than it actually was.
Evergreen pamphlet title
June 30, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Evergreen pamphlet title
Perhaps no one elucidated the content of ‘critical communism’ so well as the Italian Marxist Antonio Labriola.
Retains its force into the present.
Excerpt from ‘In Memory of the Communist Manifesto’, the first chapter of ‘Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History’
Retains its force into the present.
Excerpt from ‘In Memory of the Communist Manifesto’, the first chapter of ‘Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History’
June 30, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Perhaps no one elucidated the content of ‘critical communism’ so well as the Italian Marxist Antonio Labriola.
Retains its force into the present.
Excerpt from ‘In Memory of the Communist Manifesto’, the first chapter of ‘Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History’
Retains its force into the present.
Excerpt from ‘In Memory of the Communist Manifesto’, the first chapter of ‘Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History’
Decarbonisation as a path to demilitarisation in Europe, as opposed to the false promise of security supposedly generated by military Keynesianism.
(Grace Blakeley in the Spring 2025 issue of Tribune)
(Grace Blakeley in the Spring 2025 issue of Tribune)
June 24, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Decarbonisation as a path to demilitarisation in Europe, as opposed to the false promise of security supposedly generated by military Keynesianism.
(Grace Blakeley in the Spring 2025 issue of Tribune)
(Grace Blakeley in the Spring 2025 issue of Tribune)
Good point by Juliano Fiori in Tribune about the function of nationalism, and the place rising English nationalism fills, drawing on the work of Tom Nairn.
June 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Good point by Juliano Fiori in Tribune about the function of nationalism, and the place rising English nationalism fills, drawing on the work of Tom Nairn.
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Left-wing Ukrainian Andriy Movchan looks at the state of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the far right’s influence, and the challenges Ukraine’s left faces in building solidarity with their struggles. www.greenleft.org.au/content/puti...
Putin’s war, the far right and solidarity with Ukraine
In the second part of our interview, Green Left’s Victor Osprey speaks to left-wing Ukrainian Andriy Movchan about the state of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the far right’s influence and the challenge...
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June 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Left-wing Ukrainian Andriy Movchan looks at the state of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the far right’s influence, and the challenges Ukraine’s left faces in building solidarity with their struggles. www.greenleft.org.au/content/puti...
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"They just don't make the fear campaigns like they used to."
Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...
Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...
June 20, 2025 at 5:06 AM
"They just don't make the fear campaigns like they used to."
Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...
Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...