Ukraine: From Maidan to War with Volodymyr Ishchenko
Rudy joins Volodymyr Ishchenko, author of Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War, for a discussion on Ukraine and the broader post-Soviet sphere. We …
Letter: To the Public – William Lloyd Garrison
As I write, the Gaza Genocide enters its 142nd day. The official death toll reported by the Gaza Ministry of Health is 29,692 people but …
Letter: Democratic Revolution and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, a Response to Steve Bloom
This letter is an attempt to intervene in some of the debates originating from Steve Bloom’s articles late last year, first polemicizing against Marxist Unity …
Hamas: From Candidate Enforcer to Implacable Foe
Assaf Kfoury covers the history of Hamas from its origins as a politically quietist Islamic charitable society to its transformation into an armed national liberation …
Letter: Critique of Cosmonaut’s Episode on Stalin
I feel that despite good research and the heavily factual nature of the Cosmonaut podcast’s first episode on Stalin there are several omissions along with …
Letter: The Death of Aaron Bushnell
Aaron Bushnell, an active-duty airman wearing his uniform, poured gasoline on himself and set himself alight on February 25th outside of the Israeli embassy in …
Sino-Palestinian Relations: From Anti-Imperialist Solidarity to Pragmatism
Mark Reid traces the history of diplomacy between post-Revolutionary China, the Palestinian liberation movement, and Israel, arguing that the PRC’s current status-quo position on the …
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Democratic Constitution Ideology
Only by studying the past through the lens of democratic republican ideology can we complete King’s unfinished business, argues Luke Pickrell, in an analysis of …
Gene Bruskin: A Life in the Labor Movement
Aliyah VanPelt and Cliff Connolly sit down with longtime organizer Gene Bruskin to get his advice and hear stories from his time in the movement, …
Letter: Responding to Steve Bloom and M. Wilbur
I appreciate Steve Bloom and M. Wilbur’s continued engagement with orthodox Marxism’s democratic republicanism and, as I’ve argued and they’ve disputed, its applicability to the …
New Life for the Old Lenin
Cosmonaut Magazine prints Cliff Connolly’s remarks from two panels in 2023 on Lenin’s political legacy. After reading and reviewing Paul Le Blanc’s excellent new book …
The Mexican Revolution
Amelia, Carlos and Rudy sit down to discuss the revolutionary period of Mexico in the decade of 1910. We talk about the Porfiriato period which …
Letter: Regarding MUG and the Democratic Republic
My thanks to Joseph P. for his intelligent reply to my article “The Struggle for a ‘Democratic Socialist Republic’ and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat,” …
Open Letter to Insurgent Notes
Dec. 30, 2023 On Feb. 5, 2017, Insurgent Notes, the only visible sign of anything resembling left communism in the United States, hosted an open …