A Fight on Two Fronts: On Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise
Doug Enaa Greene and Shalon van Tine discuss Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 film La Chinoise in its historical context. Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise (1967) is not an ordinary …
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“Consistent Advocates of the Arab People”: Soviet Perceptions of and Policy on Palestine
Andrew Smith argues that the USSR’s relation to Palestinian national liberation was more about realpolitik than earnest dedication to the cause of the Palestinian people. …
Holocaust Capitalism
Richard Hunsinger argues that migrant concentration camps represent a descent into fascist barbarism and are related to the inherent tendencies of capitalism. Reading: Remi Debs. …
Organizing the Class: Interview with Two Members of Target Workers Unite
Interviews by Amelia Davenport. Check out Target Workers Unite here. In these waning days of Babylon, there seems to be little to give the class …
‘Evolution of the National Question’ and ‘The East and Revolution’ by Safarov
Translation and Introduction by Medway Baker. Georgy Safarov was born in St. Petersburg in 1891. He joined the Bolsheviks in 1908, and from 1910 spent …
Neither Intersectionality nor Economism: For a Genuine Class Politics
Neither a politics of identity informed by theories of intersectionality nor reductive economistic readings of Marxism are adequate for a modern socialist project, argues Donald …
More Acid Than Communism
Contrary to certain advocates of “Acid Communism”, P.H. Higgins argues that a turn towards counter-culture, consciousness-raising, and psychedelic drugs are not a means to building …
Saint Francis of Assisi by Karl Kautsky
Translation and introduction by Rida Vaquas. Karl Kautsky, to the extent his writings on religion are known at all in the English speaking world, is …
The Party, the Just City, and the Sacred Fire
Latest from Cold and Dark Stars. To pursue an emancipatory politics that can address planetary climate change, one must answer the question of “what is …
Frauen und die rote Fahne: Gender and the Destruction of the Kommunistische Partei Deutschland
Stephen Boyce argues that the KPD’s failure was due to its inability to recruit women in the masses. “Left-Wing” Communism, An Infantile Disorder was one …
#MeToo and the Man of Mystery: Understanding Evil in the Social Hell of Capital
The case of Jeffrey Epstein is symptomatic of the morally depraved social hell that the ruling class has created on this planet, writes Rosa Janis. …
The Democratic Socialist Cul-de-sac: A Critical Look at The Socialist Manifesto
Doug Enaa Greene reviews The Socialist Manifesto by Bhaskar Sunkara (New York: Basic Books, 2019). Rather than an innovative take on socialist politics for the …
Culture Beyond Capital: Art, Authenticity, and the 21st Century Workers’ Movement
The course of the twentieth century has seen art and culture become increasingly subsumed into the logic of capital. A crucial element of a base-building …
Debating Electoral Strategy in the Comintern, 1920: The Bulgarian Situation
Reviewing the debates over electoral strategy at the Second Congress of the Comintern, Donald Parkinson reviews the strategies of the Bulgarian Communist Party and their …