Fianna Fáil: The Imperalist Party with an Anti-Imperialist Past
How did Fianna Fáil go from a party that opposed conciliatory treaties with British Imperialism to one that has sided with US imperialism? Sean Connolly …
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Stalinist Cinema in Context: Ten Things You Might Miss Watching ‘The Fall of Berlin’
Sophia Homa provides some historical context for a classic Soviet film to celebrate the Nazi surrender in World War II. Today is the 9th of …
The Revolutionary Minimum-Maximum Program
Donald Parkinson explains and defends the format of the minimum-maximum program using the model established in Marx and Guesde’s Programme of the Parti Ouvrier. Reading: …
The Question of a Stagnant Marxism: Is Marxism Exegetical or Scientific?
Why is it that there exists a tendency in Marxism—itself a theory of change—that remains unchanging? Simoun Magsalin investigates. Perhaps some analogies are in order …
The Collective Mind
Jean Allen responds to Amelia Davenport, continuing the debate on scientific management. Introduction In comrade Davenport’s Organizing For Power, she notes a central problem with …
Historicizing Climate Change and Concretizing Resilience: The Case of Loakan, Itogon
Ivan Emil A. Labayne examines the 2018 Loakan, Itogon landslide in the Philippines through the lens of John Bellamy Foster’s ecological Marx. There is a …
Post-Scarcity without a Fully-Automated World
Connor Harney reviews Aaron Benavav’s Automation and the Future of Work, a welcome intervention in a time where bourgeois utopian delusions about the future of …
What Remains
Taylor Thornburg offers a communist analysis of the internet and explores its different ideological uses. “What do people get wrong about drawing Pepe?” an interviewer …
Fight the Constitution! Demand a New Republic!
Ben Grove proposes a radical New Union Act to throw the antiquated US Constitution into the dustbin of history. Reading: Cliff Connolly. It’s October 1917 …
The Second International Socialist Congress of Women in Copenhagen (1910)
First published in Die Gleichheit, 25 (1910), pp. 387-390 The significance of the Second International Conference of Women Socialists should not be judged by its depiction …
The Platform is the Message
Amelia Davenport and Renato Flores argue that social media cannot be ignored despite its negative effects on modern culture. Instead, the left needs its own …
Mission Statement of the Marxist Unity Slate
This is a reprint of the mission statement of Marxist Unity Slate, a set of proposals for the 2021 DSA convention with the aim of …
Create a Mass Party!
Cliff Connolly critiques CounterPower’s vision of the “party of autonomy” and offers an alternative vision of the mass party. Reading: Cliff Connolly. The US left …
Party and Subject: A Reply to Donald Parkinson
Taylor B continues the debate on political subjectivity, revolutionary strategy and the party-form, responding to Donald Parkinson’s Without a Party, We Have Nothing. When replying to …