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Éric Toussaint : Karl Marx wrote a famous text in which he stated: “If you want to know what the dictatorship of the proletariat looks like? It is the Paris Commune”, showing that his perception of the dictatorship of the proletariat was not an authoritarian form of administration but a very (...)
Global capitalist crisis, impending ecological disaster, and new responses by popular movements in some regions, particularly in Latin America, inspire radical thinking about the need to go “beyond capital.” But how to attain the desired “system change” — today, an ecosocialist regime in place of (...)
Maryam Namazie is a spokesperson for Fitnah-Movement for Women’s Liberation, One Law for All and The Council of ex-Muslims. She hosts a weekly television program in Persian and English called Bread and Roses. She’s an Iranian-born writer and activist. Parts of this interview will be featured in (...)
In the 1970s and ’80s, left parties turned to markets and spin doctors to adjust to economic changes. The results have been disastrous.
Two leaders of the German Social Democratic Party, Siegmar Gabriel and then–chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, speak during a party meeting on July 9, 2005 in (...)
The following is my review of “Indefensible: Democracy, Counterrevolution, and the Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism” by Rohini Hensman . An edited version of this post will appear in an upcoming issue of International Socialist Review.
Rohini Hensman starts off her book “Indefensible: Democracy, (...)
Last fall 15,000 scientists issued a second dire notice to humanity that we are on a collision course with the limits of our planet. They concluded, “To prevent widespread misery, humanity must practice a more environmentally sustainable alternative to business as usual,” including (...)
The following was a presentation given to the Saturday plenary of Historical Materialism Conference, London 5-8 November 2015.
In a certain way, I feel a certain unease since the entire Greek Left has some form of responsibility for the fact that Greece is not currently a laboratory of hope; (...)
Following this year’s feminist upheaval, I have had the opportunity to share discussions and experiences over the last few weeks with women from different parts of the world at the International Institute for Research and Education’s International Women’s Seminar, in addition to the usual and (...)
The Trouble With Anti-Antiracism
Movements targeting racial disparities aren’t distracting attention from class inequality — they’re part of a broader radicalization against American capitalism.
In the last half-decade, the US left’s political fortunes have begun to rise again, if only haltingly. (...)
What does Chavism really stand for? What are its main accomplishments and its main failures? What was the soldier-become-president Hugo Chávez trying to achieve, and how far did he go in achieving it? Most often it is taken for granted that Chávez, who was elected president of Venezuela in 1998, (...)
For twenty-five years, European left parties have joined broad coalition governments and come out with nothing to show for it.
Is it a shortcut, if it’s seemingly the only path on offer? Many left parties in Europe today see participating in a center-left coalition government as the only (...)
The municipalist movements of the Spanish state can’t ignore the global crisis of neoliberalism. It’s up to us to stand up and defend our idea of bottom up, feminist and radically democratic change.
The ‘municipal assault’ that’s been launched in many cities in the Spanish state over the past two (...)
Nine years after the outbreak of the financial crisis that continues to produce damaging social effects through the austerity policies imposed on victim populations, it’s time to take another look at the commitments that were made at that time by bankers, financiers, politicians and regulatory (...)
The following piece was written in the days following the March 22nd Jihadist terror attacks in Brussels. While it may require updating to take account of changes in some organizations’ thinking and public statements, its main arguments remain valid. Since January 2015, the scale and momentum of (...)
Building a real democracy in the face of corporate and financial power will require a rethinking of power and agency, unleashing the creative, experimental, knowledge-sharing and emancipatory approaches of social movements.
‘Real democracy now!’, the demand of the Spanish indignados as they (...)
The dams built on the Mekong mainstream and other rivers in the region have resulted in severe changes in the Mekong’s ecosystems, endangering life, livelihoods and the economy of the entire region. Indigenous peoples, women and children are most affected by these changes. The dams have also (...)
Todd Chretien, a member of the International Socialist Organization and editor of a new edition of Lenin’s State and Revolution , contributes to a continuing discussion about left strategy today, in response to an article on the experience of broad left projects and the relationship to left (...)
Hilary Wainwright says she is backing Jeremy Corbyn for Labour leader as part of a transition to organisation beyond parliamentary politics.
Wherever you turn, democracy is being closed down: the EU/IMF trying to crush the elected Greek government; New Labour picking apart Ed Miliband’s (...)
The Left in Europe and beyond faces enormous challenges. What kind of political strategy do we need going forward?
It would be hard to do a better job defending the political project that was Syriza — against both those who have condemned it from the beginning and those who now defend the (...)
We must learn the dangers of political shortcut and focus on building radical movements outside of government.
The leader of Spain’s Podemos party, Pablo Iglesias, recently explained why he thought the deal Syriza reached with the European institutions was “sadly, the only thing they could have (...)
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