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Beyond Cable Street: Constellations of CPGB Anti-Fascism

The British left has a set of mythologies around the 1936 Battle of Cable Street that disable rational responses to the modern authoritarianism of the state and far-right groups. Even when those mythologies take the form of a critique of the 1930s CPGB, the effect is still baleful, argues Lawrence Parker.

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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 …

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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: Bonaparte Restores Universal Suffrage

October 15, 2026

“In his recent letter, Luke Pickrell replies to a reader who questioned how the Marxist Unity Group would prevent a democratic republic from leading to reactionary results. I …”

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Letter: Hidden and Forgotten, but not yet Dead and Buried

October 13, 2026

“In a recent article, Max H. Stein declared the debate about the labor theory of value to be dead, and suggested that Marxists, if indeed there is anything …”

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Letter: MUG and the Democratic Republic

October 11, 2026

“A March Cosmonaut letter takes up Marxist Unity Group’s demand for a democratic republic in the United States. The letter’s author makes several assertions. First, the United States …”

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