Cuba in Africa with Piero Gleijeses
Rudy joins Piero Gleijeses, author of Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington and Africa, 1959–1976 and Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern …
Month: January 2023
American Socialism from 1892 to 1908: A Study in Two Programs
Transcription and commentary by SA Reed. Read by Cliff Introduction Much has been written about the history of the socialist program, with classical European examples …
R.I.P. or Long Live Trotskyism?
Shamus Cooke responds to John Kelly’s new work on the world Trotskyist movement, ‘Twilight of World Trotskyism,’ arguing that the core elements of Trotskyism remain …
Letter: Join the Movement to Build a Peoples’ Senate
In it’s “Seven Points of Unity” the Marxist Unity Group includes this, describing the socialist government it envisions for the USA: “Supreme power will rest …
The Twilight of the Sweatshop Age: Labor, Monopsony and Supply Chains with Ashok Kumar
Rudy joins Ashok Kumar author of Monopsony Capitalism: Power and Production in the Twilight of the Sweatshop Age for a discussion on global sweatshops, labor …
Letter: Our Cultural Malaise
I had ample time during the holidays to contemplate the points made by comrade Noakes in reply to both myself and comrade Manos on the …
The Daily Practice of Partizanship: A Review of Steven de Castro’s ‘Revolution Selfie’
Paul Romano reviews documentarian Steven de Castro’s 2017 film on the New People’s Army (NPA), ‘Revolution Selfie: The Red Battalion,’ and discusses a recent screening …
Naming the System: “Means as Ends” Socialism and the Importance of Alternative Political Culture and Program
Isaac KD and Jack L defend their critique of DSA’s dominant strategic orientation towards reform campaigns in a response to Sam Lewis’ “In Defense of …
From Champion of the Oppressed to Truth, Justice, and the American Way: Who Took the Socialism Out of Superman?
Hank Kennedy traces the ideological history of Superman, arguing that the populism of the character’s early iterations would eventually be shed as a result of …
The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain with Phil Burton-Cartledge
James and Harry join Phil Burton-Cartledge, author of Falling Down: The Conservative Party and the Decline of Tory Britain for a discussion on his book. …
Two Souls Within His Breast: Georg Lukács, 1925-29
Lawrence Parker argues that existing Trotskyist schemas around the revolutionary career of Georg Lukács in the mid-to-late 1920s are fallacious in the extreme. Introduction In …
Letter: Bryan Palmer, Trotskyism, and James Cannon
I’m not going to spend the money on a thousand-page book by Palmer. I caught him falsifying a reference in another book and wrote him …
Soviet Cybernetics and the Promise of Big Computer Socialism
Amelia, Djamil, Christian, and Rudy join for a discussion on the history of Soviet Cybernetics and the use of computers for socialist planning. We discuss …