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 …
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Letter: Lazarean vs. Proletarian Internationalism
Daniel Lazare seems to be more interested in defending the ideal of internationalism than in defending the Palestinians in a life or death struggle. He …
History of the “Russian World”: From Soft Power to Irredentism
Taking issue with economistic accounts of the Russian Special Military Operation, Maxim Lebsky looks at the role of the ideology of the “Russian world.” Translated …
The US Proxy War in Ukraine and Socialist Anti-War Strategy
Matthew Strupp argues that revolutionary defeatism, not capitulation to imperialist war aims, must guide the response of the US Left to the Ukraine War. The …
Letter: Questions About Democracy
I’ve been a longtime reader of your publication, and a longtime aspiring socialist. I find the political program advocated by the Marxist Unity Group to …
Letter: On Stalinism and the National Question
To The Editors, British Communists profess a commitment to internationalism and proletarian democracy- why then do we see a trend toward nationalistic, paternalist, and étatiste policy …
Other Witherings: On Family Abolition and Defense
Social Conservative defenses of the nuclear family pose it as the default natural form of kinship and blame working-class immiseration on its decline. Cam Scott …
Fragment on War, National Questions and Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg
Translation and introduction by Rida Vaquas. Original article can be found here. Introduction It has long become a truism that Marxism failed to grasp the …
Faith, Family and Folk: Against the Trad Left
Donald Parkinson takes issue with the calls for a “socially conservative leftism” that have increased in popularity since Jeremy Corbyn’s defeat in the UK election. Reading: …
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 …
Alienation and Social Reproduction among the Subaltern
Christian Noakes argues that the theoretical work of Antonio Gramsci, put in historical context, can help us understand the issues of sectarianism among oppressed groups …