Daphne Lawless, “Realism in Revolt”
Peter Ranis, Grandin’s New View of the New World
Elizabeth Rapaport, The Ukrainian Military
Marjane Satrapi, the acclaimed French-Iranian author, artist, and filmmaker whose groundbreaking graphic memoir Persepolis transformed the world’s understanding of Iran and its people, has died at the age of
Protests in support of a hunger and labor strike by immigrant inmates at Delaney Hall, a detention center in Newark, New Jersey have been militant. There have been conflicts between protestors and various police agencies. Dozens have been arrested. Activists
The revolution and this anti-imperialist resistance revealed the potential of solidarity between Haitians and Dominicans who to this day share an island that was divided two-hundred and fifty years ago by the European imperialist powers.
A Cepeda victory will strengthen the working class, the social movements, and the oppressed whereas a victory of the right will place the repressive apparatus of the state firmly in the hands of the forces of reaction.
Calling something “white socialism” actually weakens the left. It treats the multiracial working class as just a social problem, not as a group that can act politically. It focuses on moral identity rather than on working together. This leads to a kind of politics where the left cares more about staying pure than about winning. As a result, the left can’t respond to the current moment, because it has lost the tools it needs to understand what’s happening.
Americans are among those who have volunteered to join Myanmar’s resistance to the military junta that took power in a 2021 coup. In this interview a young volunteer from California shares an account of what drove him to take up arms.
The late Italian Marxist Domenico Losurdo’s Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend exalts and even deifies the long-ruling Soviet despot Joseph Stalin (1924–1953). Indeed, the text’s cover and inside cover art strikingly depict Stalin with a halo, and
Gilbert Achcar argues that the Gaza genocide is a watershed in world history, representing the demise of the liberal illusion of a rules-based international order.
The Dominican Republic’s revolutionary left is caught in a continuous crisis at a time when the Dominican state is under the complete control of the capitalist class and the far right is on the rise both locally and internationally. Mostly
As the global right advances and socialists worldwide grapple with how to build left alternatives, Venezuela’s crisis raises fundamental strategic questions that extend beyond regional borders. The current political, economic, and social situation under Nicolás Maduro’s government represents one of
Paul Le Blanc recommends Douglas Greene’s latest book In Stalin’s Shadow, a critique of the new wave of Stalinist revisionism.
Michael Pröbsting criticizes distortion of the Marxist theory of imperialism today, which is used to justify support for imperialist states such as China and Russia.
A critical examination of Trotsky’s evolving views on revolutionary morality and democracy in revolutionary movements.
The discredit attained by the dominant parties, by the legislature, by the “politicians” and even “politics” itself, defined inaccurately, but viscerally despised by many people, recalls the concept of “organic crisis” advanced by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Authors such
Marking an anniversary of a book’s publication is, appropriately, reserved for books that were widely read when they first appeared many years ago. Books we commemorate with an anniversary are ones that ushered in a new way of thinking and influenced the way society tries to make sense of the world. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community did neither of these things.
Heather Ann Thompson has written a magnificent history of the Attica Prison uprising, the deadliest prison rebellion in U.S. history.
Looking back on nearly 25 years of involvement in the LGBT movement, and 45+ years in the labor movement, I am struck by the way those paths have crossed, intertwined and separated over the long term.
