Think globally, act locally? Towards an international red green movement∗

Thanks are due the Boston CNS Editorial Group and CNS Editors Maria‐Pilar Garcia (Venezuela), Jomo K.S. (Malaysia), Saul Landau (U.S.), and Giovanna Ricoveri (Italy) for their editorial help and indispensable criticisms of an earlier draft of this article.

“The disintegration of the Soviet Union and the geopolitical and ideological upheavals this has caused have altered the nature of class struggle throughout the world. Without the Soviet Communist Party, parties in the rest of the world have lost legitimacy and their claim to leadership of the working class. The basic tension between capital and labor remains, but the traditional means of addressing working class and minority grievances have necessarily changed. Without either a model or a support base — the two possibilities that the Soviets offered the working classes of other countries — those demanding economic and social justice must confront capital with new forms of organization and struggle.”

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Thanks are due the Boston CNS Editorial Group and CNS Editors Maria‐Pilar Garcia (Venezuela), Jomo K.S. (Malaysia), Saul Landau (U.S.), and Giovanna Ricoveri (Italy) for their editorial help and indispensable criticisms of an earlier draft of this article.