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Europe’s Vassal Trap: New Empire, Old Dependencies; Old Empire, New Dependencies

While European leaders attempt to assert independence on the global stage, Elia El Khazen argues they only fall deeper into a "vassal trap" of energy and military dependence on a US hegemon that seeks to shift its own decline onto them.

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Social Democracy in the War by Karl Kautsky

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Chile’s Road from Revolt to Reaction: An Autopsy of the Boric Government

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Points of Arrival

Julian Assele reviews Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver, edited by Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter. While Cleaver rightly seeks to recenter working-class agency and grapple with the changing shape of class struggle, his incomplete application of the class composition method risks a voluntarist view of capital’s counteroffensive and leads to a flawed critique of revolutionary organization.

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Donald interviews C Derick Varn and Daniel Tutt, authors of "The People Are Not One" in the wake of their recent tour promoting their book.

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Israel's Lobby Under Review

Abel Bisrat reviews Israel's Lobby by Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick, finding a worthwhile expansion of previous scholarship for our contemporary era rather than a mere retreading of work by authors like Mearsheimer and Walt. Yet more work remains in mapping the class fractions behind Zionism and its stranglehold over …

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Garrisoning White Power

Julian Assele reviews Gautham Rao's White Power: Policing American Slavery, arguing that its analysis of how racial domination determined American policing and notions of "public order" is further strengthened by a grounding in Marxist categories of labor command and capital accumulation.

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Letter: Science's Internal Dialectic

September 24, 2026

“"One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we …”

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Letter: A Nationwide DSA AI Program Working Group

September 22, 2026

“The Democratic Socialists of America currently does not have a fully fledged program on artificial intelligence. What it does have is elements of an immediate program addressing AI, …”

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Letter: Back to Comintern - The Struggle for International Communist Regroupment

September 17, 2026

“We are living through a revival of socialism as a political movement. The rise of a new socialist party in the United States, for all its own limits, …”

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