Whose Democracy?: An Introduction to Oligarchy in the United States
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 …
Why Define Fascism?: In Defence of Making Distinctions
Jacob Smith argues that if the left wishes to take fascism seriously we shouldn’t use the term lightly but with precision. Some weeks ago Natasha …
Latino Radicals and the Communist Party in the New Communist Movement: A Case Study of Two Oral Histories
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 …
Post-Insurrectionary Strategy
Jacob Richter weighs in on the Kautsky debate centering around revolutionary strategy, arguing for a balance of power approach. Earlier this year a series of …
The Grey Tree of Post-Keynesianism and Monetarism: The Classical Account, Inflation, and Unemployment
Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina takes a look at Keynesianism and Modern Monetary Theory and argues they are based on an idealistic notion of science. “I said, ‘This …
Letter: Comments on “Michael Harrington and his afterlives”
In your recent essay on Michael Harrington you have much of the story correct. You also have some significant errors. Since the bi lines says …
Critique of the Saltsjöbaden Agreement
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 …
Cosmic Imagination in Revolutionary Russia
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 …
The Winnipeg General Strike: from Revolt to Revolution?
Medway Baker analyzes the Winnipeg General Strike, possibly the height of class struggle in Canada, for its centennial. Today marks the hundred-year anniversary of the …
Leon Trotsky and Cultural Revolution
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 …
The Retrograde Left
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 …
‘Is Marxism Obsolete?’ by Charles Rappoport
Introduction and translation by Medway Baker. Since the fall of the USSR and the definitive failure of the Russian Revolution, many among the left have …
In Defense of the Labor Theory of Value
Djamil Lakhdar-Hamina examines the labor theory of value and references philosophy of science to defend it from critics. Features a reading guide to works on …
Strasserism vs “Strasserism”: Turning Over the Right Rocks
With Strasserism becoming a common accusation made towards various political trends on the left, K. T. Jamieson makes a historical investigation of Strasserism and its …