Eugene Debs on Militarism and Internationalism
For the 100th anniversary of his death, Steven Raney introduces three pieces by Eugene V. Debs on the topics of militarism and internationalism.
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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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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 …
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: Chaotic Paris
October 21, 2026
“Over the past few days, Paris has witnessed what the establishment calls "riots." They, along with the right wing, have blamed everything on "that group of populists and …”
Letter: Lost at Sea - MUG and Compromise
October 19, 2026
“In May, Sid C.W., a member of Marxist Unity Group (MUG) and DSA’s NPC, wrote an article, Sailing Into the Storm, on how DSA should handle Mamdani and …”
Letter: On Jon Hochschartner's Holy Crusade
October 17, 2026
“There is a certain type of programming that comes with living in the imperial core, where one is bound to find profound dissatisfaction with the existing economic and …”