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Are Socialist Teachers Class Traitors? What the PMC Debate Gets Wrong About Strategy

The Professional-Managerial Class has long been a controversial category on the left, often blamed for failures to make inroads among the broader working class. John Haywood argues that this analysis falls short under scrutiny, confusing cultural divisions with antagonisms based in economic interests.

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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 US foreign policy.

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Aaron Leonard and Donald Parkinson sit down for a conversation on Leonard's recent book 'Menace of Our Time: The Long War Against American Communism

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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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“Black Marxism” Under Debate, 40 Years On

Forty years after his first response to Cedric Robinson, August Nimtz's "Black Marxism": A Marxist Critique revisits a debate about the relations between race, class, and Marxism that remains as pertinent as ever. Gary Levi puts the collection under review.

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Letter: Regarding the Case of Argentina

September 5, 2026

“I was happy to see some serious engagement with my political economy research by The Inner Moon in a recent article for Cosmonaut. However, I did want to …”

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Letter: Lenin's Sincerity

September 2, 2026

“I’m very grateful for Anthony Teso’s response to my article, and I honestly think it’s a highly useful addendum to my historiographical sketch. Teso raises an important and …”

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Letter: "Who Paid The Piper...", "Black Marxism", and What Kind of Marxism Do We Want?

August 31, 2026

“Donald Parkinson and Gary Levi have opened and closed the summer season with columns that talk about the opposite side of the same coin.My question on the Nimtz/Robinson …”

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