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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.
Ian Parker describes the stakes of the difference between an approach that is just a malignant mirror of capitalism and an approach that is for free association as the core of communist politics.
This little book [[https://resistancebooks.org/product/stalinist-realism-and-open-communism] is (...)
In 1991, a documentary crew witnessed the dissolution of the Communist Party of Great Britain.
The End of the Party shows us three demographics. The young(er) Eurocommunists of the Party leadership have the chic graphics and the hard truths; confidently they berate an ageing audience to (...)
Mao Zedong’s writings on insurgent war have had an international impact. In the book under review, Grice attempts to show that these writings not only lacked originality but that their influence has also been strongly exaggerated. Grice seeks to disprove ‘the myth of Mao Zedong’ as an original and (...)
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 (...)
Mukoma wa Ngugi’s opening remarks at the launch (today) of the 2020 Writers Unlimited International Literature Festival in The Hague.
In January of 2019, I traveled to Ghana to visit slave castles and forts for the book I am currently writing on the relationship between Africans and Black (...)
Ten aspects of Marxism are highlighted in this paper by Ian Parker on what we could or should expect socialism to look like.
Paper presented ’The 46th Discipline Forum of the National College of Marxist Theory Discipline’ (Guangxi University for Nationalities)- ‘New Development of Socialism in (...)
Prominent writers in postcolonial theory have considerable influence in progressive circles within academia. They address issues of colonialism, racism, and differences in culture and politics between the former colonies and the former colonisers. They have devised new frameworks and categories (...)
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 (...)
Intersectionality, a way of thinking about the nature and causes of social inequality, proposes that the effects of multiple forms of oppression are cumulative and, as the term suggests, interwoven. Not only do racism, sexism, homophobia, disablism, religious bigotry, and so-called “classism” (...)
Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nişancıoğlu’s How the West Came to Rule is an important intervention within Marxist historical debates which seeks to use the theory of uneven and combined development (UCD) to explain the origin and rise to dominance of capitalism. The argument is shaped by a critique (...)
Since the 1990s there has been an upsurge of academic interest in Trotsky’s concept of uneven and combined development, but relatively little attention has been paid to its intellectual antecedents. These two articles reconstruct the sources and components of uneven and combined development, in (...)
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 (...)
The Kenyan writer is of the view that the colonial system of knowledge creates a space where we are logically trapped into defining ourselves as ‘other people’.
The Kenyan writer, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, was less in conversation with Githa Hariharan, and more in conversation with the space he (...)
It is not too much to say that the Russian Revolution made South African Marxism possible. There were Marxists in South Africa before the Russian Revolution, and Marxist organizations. But there was nothing that could have been recognized as specifically South African Marxism
This was partly (...)
After the atrocity, we recall a past when to be young and Muslim was to be engaged in class politics.
Were I 20 today, would I be attracted to Islamism or desire to become a soldier of Islamic State? It seems shocking, even insulting, especially to those who lost their lives in the Manchester (...)
A Q&A with Asad Haider, founding editor of Viewpoint Magazine, on an ideology fracturing the left.
In the days following September 11, Asad Haider’s identity was of great concern. A first-generation Pakistani-American, he recalls being harassed and detained at the airport due to his (...)
Guilt is a sad, passive emotion — and it won’t help us build a more diverse left.
It could be any meeting — an ad hoc general assembly, an emergency gathering for immigrant defense, a planning session for an upcoming strike. The speaker is usually white, but not always — and depending on this, (...)
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 (...)
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