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This hearder includes articles reflecting on Marxism (and its diversity), as well as elements of discussion between (more or less) Marxists and non-Marxists. For “Marxism and...”, see also the sections “Ecology”, “Patriarcat”, “Internationalism”, etc.
On the anniversary of his communist father Mazhar Ali Khan’s death, 27 years ago, an extraordinary writer and activist speaks on what makes communism resonate to this day.
On a cold rainy afternoon on January 28, I made my way to the house where the renowned writer and activist Tariq Ali was (...)
Lal Khan n’a pas besoin d’être présenté dans les milieux politiques révolutionnaires, non seulement du Pakistan, mais du monde entier. Il a connu son dernier souffle aujourd’hui, le 21 février à 19h00, à Lahore.
Depuis un an et demi, il combattait le cancer. Lal Khan avait 64 ans. Il a été l’un des (...)
José Carlos Mariátegui was Latin America’s most original Marxist. And his work is strikingly relevant for confronting the continent’s right-wing backlash today.
Latin America’s first, most original Marxist thinker was born on June 14, 1894, in Peru’s southern department of Moquegua. José Carlos (...)
Just like Marielle Franco, Pereira was a social leader who worked closely with his community, bringing their demands to parliament.
The body of Carlos Alexandre Pereira Maria was found on Sunday night in a car cribbled with bullets in the road of Curumau, east of Rio de Janeiro, reported local (...)
Brazilian Rights Activist Marielle Franco Assassinated in Rio
Part of a generation of young Black Brazilians who are becoming increasingly vocal inside and outside statehouses, Franco was elected to office in 2016. A resident of the Favela da Maré, an impoverished community in Rio, she was one (...)
What Can We Learn from Vampires and Idiots?
The German socialist August Bebel once called anti-Semitism “the socialism of fools.” He had in mind that a fool from the lower classes, indignant at the existing state of things instead of seeking the genuine reasons for his discontent concealed in (...)
The lifelong project of Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) was to try to perpetuate the centuries-old revolutionary socialist tradition by renovating it for the current era. Confronted with the failure of Marxism after World War II, many, perhaps most radical socialists of his generation abandoned the (...)
The tenth annual Historical Materialism conference , held in London November 7–10, was younger and more diverse in composition than its predecessors. Probably the world’s leading gathering of Marxist theorists, the conference, this year entitled “Making the World Working Class,” welcomed 880 (...)
Michael Löwy. The Politics of Combined and Uneven Development: The Theory of Permanent Revolution (Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2010), 162 pages including index. $15.00 paperback.
Richard B. Day and Daniel Gaido, eds. Witnesses to Permanent Revolution: The Documentary Record (Leiden, Netherlands: (...)
Book Review: Zionism, Militarism and the Decline of US Power by James Petras.
James Petras has been cloned. Petras I is still reliable, if a bit creaky in his old age. He digs for information in Chapare, Chiapas, and elsewhere in the Latin American countryside, interviewing militants from the (...)
• How to Change the World: Marx and Marxism 1840-2011 by Eric Hobsbawm Little, Brown, 470 pp, £25.00, January 2011, ISBN 978 1 4087 0287 1.
In 1976, a good many people in the West thought that Marxism had a reasonable case to argue. By 1986, most of them no longer felt that way. What had (...)
Ralph Miliband, father of the Labour leadership rivals David and Ed, is remembered as a great teacher and an inspiration to young socialists. So which son is his true heir?
During a recent televised debate, the five candidates for the leadership of the Labour Party were asked to name their (...)
The 2008 publication of Frances Widdowson and Albert Howard’s Disrobing the Aboriginal Industry: The Deception Behind Indigenous Cultural Preservation ignited a firestorm of controversy. The Globe and Mail, the National Post, and the Ottawa Citizen all published glowing reviews of the book, (...)
This essay was probably among the last written by Daniel Bensaïd. It appears in the latest issue of ContreTemps, the journal where Daniel was one of three publishing editors. The piece is a contribution to a series of essays on the meaning of communism put together as part of a symposium on the (...)
This has been a bad summer for left wing intellectuals. The radical political economists Giovanni Arrighi and Peter Gowan died within a few days of one another in June. And then last week the socialist philosopher GA “Jerry” Cohen died suddenly at the age of 68.
Jerry is best known for his (...)
Victor Gordon Kiernan, historian and writer: born Manchester 4 September 1913; Married 1938 Shanta Gandhi (marriage dissolved 1946), 1984 Heather Massey; died 17 February 2009.
Victor Kiernan, professor emeritus of Modern History at Edinburgh University, was an erudite Marxist historian with (...)
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What remains from the Communist Manifesto in 2008, one hundred and sixty years after its publication? As David Harvey observes in his brilliant preface to this edition, the present financial crisis corresponds in an astonishing way to the predictions of Marx and Engels: “ the society (...)
Biography taken from the website “http://www.waldenbello.org/” July 30, 2008.
Walden Bello, senior analyst of Focus on the Global South and professor of sociology at the University of the Philippines, is one of the leading critics of the current model of economic globalisation, combining the (...)
Over the past decade, a new rise of mass struggles in Latin America has sparked an encounter between revolutionists of that region and many of those based in the imperialist countries. In many of these struggles, as in Bolivia under the presidency of Evo Morales, Indigenous peoples are in the (...)
THE PERSISTENCE OF reformism and outright conservatism among workers, especially in the imperialist centers of North America, Western Europe and Japan, has long confounded revolutionary socialists. The broadest outlines of Marxist theory tell us that capitalism creates it own “gravediggers” - a (...)
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