We sit down to discuss Lars Lih's new book What was Bolshevism?
Reviewing C. Derick Varn and Daniel Tutt’s new pamphlet, The People are Not One, Nicolas D Villarreal finds a sharp contribution to a debate that may very well shape the future of socialism in our lifetime.
Reviewing Stuart Schrader's Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, Julian Assele finds a forceful case for why police abolition is not a utopian moral demand but a political necessity emergent from decades of class struggle.
July 9, 2026
“In my view, the recent article "Toward a Marxist State Theory of the Socialist Market Economy", by Theryn Arnold, is not a Marxist analysis of the political-economic situation …”
July 7, 2026
““You’re telling me a guy who joined Blackwater in 2018 did not behave well in his personal life?”Whilst we Brits across the Atlantic have plenty of our own …”
July 4, 2026
“If 50 years ago historian Jesse Lemisch could speak of “schlock” as “the Bicentennial’s most pervasive manifestation and perhaps its most enduring heritage”, today we have moved to …”
