Whose Democracy?: An Introduction to Oligarchy in the United States
J.R. Murray, June 20, 2019
The United States is a mockery of what democracy is supposed to be. J.R. Murray unpacks the reality of a corrupt system that is designed to empower the rich against the working class majority. Reading: Cliff Connolly. Read Article.
Why Define Fascism?: In Defence of Making Distinctions
Jacob Smith, June 16, 2019
Jacob Smith argues that if the left wishes to take fascism seriously we shouldn't use the term lightly but with precision. Read Article.
Latino Radicals and the Communist Party in the New Communist Movement: A Case Study of Two Oral Histories
Josh Morris, June 11, 2019
Josh Morris discusses the experiences of Latino/Latina organizers in the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicanx de Aztlan and CPUSA, covering an often ignored aspect of US Communist history. Read Article.
Post-Insurrectionary Strategy
Jacob Richter, June 6, 2019
Jacob Richter weighs in on the Kautsky debate centering around revolutionary strategy, arguing for a balance of power approach. Read Article.
The Grey Tree of Post-Keynesianism and Monetarism: The Classical Account, Inflation, and Unemployment
Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina, June 1, 2019
Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina takes a look at Keynesianism and Modern Monetary Theory and argues they are based on an idealistic notion of science. Read Article.
Critique of the Saltsjöbaden Agreement
Tom Anderson, May 26, 2019
Translation by Tom Anderson of a pamphlet by Gösta Kempe from 1939. We publish this as a document of workers struggle against reactionary union laws that promote class cooperation and a demonstration that questions of procedure are also political questions. Read Article.
Cosmic Imagination in Revolutionary Russia
Donald Parkinson, May 20, 2019
Before the rise of the Soviet Space Program, utopian visions of space travel existed alongside serious scientific work to make it a reality. Donald Parkinson explores the culture of space exploration that existed both before and after the Bolshevik Revolution and how it laid the groundwork for Sputnik. Read Article.
The Winnipeg General Strike: from Revolt to Revolution?
Medway Baker, May 15, 2019
Medway Baker analyzes the Winnipeg General Strike, possibly the height of class struggle in Canada, for its centennial. Read Article.
Leon Trotsky and Cultural Revolution
Doug Enaa Greene, May 12, 2019
Doug Enaa Greene argues that in Trotsky's work a theory of cultural revolution can be found, one which differs from Mao Zedong's that was developed in the context of the Russian Revolution and its struggle against bureaucracy. Read Article.
The Retrograde Left
J.R. Murray, May 4, 2019
J.R. Murray argues that the left must abandon the micro-sect form of organization derived from a false reading of the true meaning of Bolshevism, or else we will continue to exist in an endless cycle of self-marginalization. Read Article.