Hold Your Fire!: A Warning to the Left
Daniel Newman urges patience and caution in the face of current political turmoil. Reading: Cliff Connolly. The worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. The deadliest …
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The Fight for Socialism in the Philippines
In this follow-up interview, Ryan Powers speaks again with Teodorico “Teody” Duran Navea. Teody is a spokesperson for the Cebu City chapter of Partido Lakas …
‘The Struggle for Democracy in Africa’ by Iyasou Alemayehu
Translation and introduction by Ian Scott Horst. Buy a copy of his new book on Ethiopia, ‘Like Ho Chi Minh! Like Che Guevara!’ here. The …
Was Mao a Bukharinist?: The “Three-Line Struggle” in Economic Debates Preceding the Great Leap Forward
Matthew Strupp examines economic debates in China during the leadup to the Great Leap Forward and assesses comparisons made between Mao and Bukharin. Reading: Cliff Connolly. …
Ferdinand Lassalle: A 25-year Memorial by Karl Kautsky
Translation and introduction by Tom Anderson. Today Lassalle is one of the most marginalized and vilified of the classic German social-democrats. His most essential works …
Lenin’s Boys: A Short History of Soviet Hungary
Doug Enaa Greene on the Hungarian Soviet Republic and its tragic defeat. It is 1919 and Russia is in the midst of a ruthless civil …
Workers and Writers: The Communist Novel in Britain
The history of the British communist novel is ultimately the story of the political degeneration of the Communist Party of Great Britain. By Lawrence Parker. Reading: …
Revolutionary Discipline and Sobriety
Cliff Connolly argues for a culture of sobriety within our organizations, drawing from the example of Austrian Socialism. Reading: Cliff Connolly. “The revolution demands concentration, increase …
The Materialism of Warm-Stream Marxism: Ernst Bloch on Ibn Sina
Daniel Tutt writes on German Marxist Ernst Bloch’s engagement with the Islamic scholar Ibn Sina and its potential for revitalizing materialist philosophy. The Marxist philosopher …
Letter to the Socialists, Old and New
Chris Townsend is a socialist and veteran of the labor movement, currently a member of Marxist Center and director of field mobilization for Amalgamated Transit …
Of Course Labor Law Advances the Class Struggle
Anton Johannsen argues that labor law is a terrain of class struggle that can only be ignored at our own peril. Nick Walter, labor organizer, …
Food, Capitalism and the Necessity of a Socialist Program
Capitalist food production is based on ecological destruction, imperialism, inhumane labor practices, and the degradation of human health. A socialist program that guarantees healthy food …
Beyond Work? The Shortcomings of Post-Work Politics
Mikael Lyngaas argues that post-work theorists ranging from Bob Black to Srnicek and Williams are utopian socialism for the current era. Reading: Sam Wiles. In 1845, Karl …
The Dialectic of Assimilation
How have Jews in the US have gone from an unwelcome immigrant group prone to left-wing radicalism to Zionists and beneficiaries of whiteness? Lane Silberstein …