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MEIRIAN JUMP reports from the weekend’s international conference to mark the 90th anniversary of the founding of Marx Memorial Library and Workers School
The Marx Memorial Library and Workers School has been celebrating its 90th year in 2023
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SPEAKING at Saturday’s international meeting to mark the 90th anniversary of Marx Memorial Library and Workers School, the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) Sitaram Yechury called for a renewed international movement of solidarity against the increasingly coercive character of neoliberal exploitation worldwide.
When the library had been founded in 1933 workers faced fascism. “Today we see a rapid political rightward shift globally. It is the way finance capital is able to use ‘liberal democracy’ itself to ensure super-exploitation and super-profit.
“Elected parliaments are themselves legally stripping working people of secured rights and collaborating in a disastrous degradation of the environment. Racism, bigotry, communalism and chauvinism are, as in India and elsewhere, the tools of control.
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