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Why Communists Should Fight for a Clean Break in DSA

Stephen Thompson lays out his case for a Clean Break from the Democrats in the DSA: cease all support for Democratic Party-affiliated politicians, reject class collaboration, and lay the foundations for an independent workers' party in the US.

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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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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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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: The Problem of Unequal Exchange

September 15, 2026

“With the recent article by Pepe Gómez Merchán reopening the debates around unequal exchange in Cosmonaut, I figured now would be a good time to spit out what …”

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Letter: DSA Should Support Locking Up Fascist Criminals

September 12, 2026

“One thing I’ve found strange, as a longtime observer and recent member of the Democratic Socialists of America, is the leftist group doesn’t seem to do a lot …”

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Letter: Substitutionism with a Gramscian License

September 10, 2026

“The PMC debate has been running since Gabriel Winant's "Professional Managerial Chasm" in 2019 on a premise nobody bothered to check. Haywood checked it. He pulled DSA's 2021 …”

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