On Communist Work in the Working Class Movement
Chantelle, July 12, 2024
In a debate on labor strategy, Kat and Chantelle argue for the merger of political, economic, and theoretical struggles; for boring from within the reactionary unions; for open communist leadership within a reformist context; and for tactical flexibility. Kat and Chantelle are members of Maoist Communist Union (MCU) and Teamsters Mobilize. They can be reached at maoistcommunistunion@riseup.net. Read Article.
Toward a People’s History of the University of Maryland: AFSCME Local 1072
Emily Fox, June 26, 2024
Emily Fox recounts the history of AFSCME Local 1072, a militant union of campus staff at the University of Maryland organized during a period often considered to be a low ebb of trade unionism in the United States. Read Article.
Eco-Leninism: A Much Needed Corrective
Martin Rose, June 21, 2024
Martin Rose argues that Lenin's classic political strategy offers an alternative to the economism which plagues both sides of the debate around 'degrowth.' Read Article.
Galeano in Mogadishu: Sheep and the Emergent Geography of Gulf Capitalisms
Jaime Litvak, June 7, 2024
Adapting radical Latin American theories of economic geography, Jaime Litvak argues that a regionally-centered, extractive economic subsystem links the Arab Gulf and northeast Africa. Read Article.
Against Frum on Woodrow Wilson
Hank Kennedy, June 5, 2024
Hank Kennedy sets the record straight on Woodrow Wilson's legacy - one of service to the imperialist capitalist class abroad and brutal and racist repression of the working class at home. Read Article.
Labor Notes and Labor’s Next Year
Leland Olds, May 24, 2024
Leland Olds responds to the recent Labor Notes conference with an analysis of the current state of U.S. labor organizing and proposes a syncretic strategy for socialist trade unionists that includes both reformism and independent unionism. Read Article.
Left-Communism, Palestine, and National Liberation
RJ Park, May 22, 2024
RJ Park critiques the supposed “internationalism” of adherents of the left-communist tendency that reject support for Palestinian national liberation. Read Article.
The Modern Left and the New Right-Wing Radicalism
Christian Kobluk, May 15, 2024
While right-wing radicalism has grown and taken on new forms, the left today remains stuck in illusions of liberal capitalism as the end of history. The path out, argues Christian Kobluk, lies in a new, anti-capitalist analysis and program. Read Article.
What’s the Problem with Lenin’s Materialism and Empirio-Criticism?
Lawrence Parker, May 10, 2024
The modern-day left continues to repeat fairy tales that Lenin’s early philosophical work is vulgar, undialectical and abandoned by its author in later years. None of these stories stack up, writes Lawrence Parker. Read Article.
Slavoj Žižek and the Politics of Abstract Negativity
Yanis Iqbal, May 8, 2024
Yanis Iqbal breaks down Slavoj Žižek's philosophical narrative of abstract negativity, revealing it to be politically disabling and epistemologically reductive. Read Article.