Peacenik?: A Socialist Perspective on the Libicki/VanCAF Controversy
Hank Kennedy covers the recent ban (and subsequent retraction of said ban) of American-Israeli graphic novelist, Miriam Libicki, from the Vancouver Comic Arts Festival, using …
Month: July 2024
The Italian Communist Party: From Resistance to Dissolution
James, Steven and Rudy sit down to talk about the Italian Communist Party (PCI) from its foundation to its dissolution, with a focus on its …
Marx and Morality’s Authority
Paul Wolf interrogates the discourse on moral philosophy’s utility for revolutionary Marxism. One prominent criticism of Karl Marx, and of the many “Marxisms” out there, …
Cogs in the Great Machinery
Drawing from personal experience, Michael Zajakowski Uhll makes the case for bureaucracy. I remember the first time I heard Fleet Foxes’ “Helplessness Blues” at the …
What Is Materialism?
Nicolas D Villarreal gives depth and meaning to an often fraught concept with ample currency in contemporary left-wing circles: materialism. As counterintuitive as it might …
Ending the One Party State: Reflections on Rhode Island Democratic Socialists of America
Tony Unger sets the record straight on Rhode Island DSA’s political experiences with the Democratic Party and need for class independence. Introduction The history of …
Letter: Focusing on Essential Issues
I believe it will help us focus on the primary issues in dispute (at least what is disputed on my end) if I offer a …
On Communist Work in the Working Class Movement
In a debate on labor strategy, Kat and Chantelle argue for the merger of political, economic, and theoretical struggles; for boring from within the reactionary …
Letter: Break Now, or Forever Hold Your Peace
In Thursday’s debate, the true condition of President Biden’s mental state was revealed to the public in the most embarrassing fashion imaginable. To die-hard establishment …
A Review of “Ron Carey and the Teamsters”
Edgar Esquivel catalogues the rise, fall, and redemption of Ron Carey and his work with the Teamsters. At a time when the International Brotherhood …
Letter: The Economics of Feasible Degrowth
In the degrowth debate there are a number of misconceptions and fallacies that I believe need to be cleared up. Recently, I was reading Comrade …