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The overall aim of the war against socialism is to make the Left as much an anathema as fascism was in post-war capitalist democracies.
Something is happening that has alarmed the ideologues of capitalism and the right. Young people in key countries are rejecting capitalism and forming a (...)
The Next New Left: A History of the Future. By Alan Sears. Halifax and Winnipeg, Canada: Fernwood Publishing, 2014, 134 pages, $19.95 paperback from Amazon.
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BOOKS TAKING A hard look at the current state of “the left” are rarely upbeat, let alone inspiring. Alan Sears’ The (...)
We, the undersigned, stand in solidarity with the people of Greece and the Syriza-led government as they prepare for a referendum on July 5, 2015 on whether to accept the continuation of the program of neoliberal austerity or chart a new course free from the debilitating stranglehold of the (...)
ESLANDA: THE LARGE AND UNCONVENTIONAL LIFE OF MRS. PAUL ROBESON BY BARBARA RANSBY YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2013, 424 PAGES, $25 PAPER.
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For a woman often described by men as “too abrasive,” “formidable,” and “too ambitious,” Barbara Ransby’s incisive biography provides a more nuanced (...)
Before I met Frank I felt like I already knew him: he was legendary on the far left for putting people together, being effective, and getting things done. And he had good politics. How could I not know him? We met when both Frank and I were working on the author Daniel Singer’s Solidarnosc tour (...)
The first Mediterranean coordination against debt, austerity policies and foreign domination, and for a free, united, democratic, social, feminist and environmentally responsible Mediterranean region took place in Tunis on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 March in the build up to the World Social (...)
Some familiar issues were addressed with originality and new vigour at the Historical Materialism conference in Toronto on May 11–13 . Attendance at the three sessions on revolutionary history, organized by Abigail Bakan (Queen’s University), ranged between 30 and 75 of the 400 conference (...)
Aijaz Ahmad is the author of many influential books on literature, politics, and cultural theory, including In Theory, Lineages of the Present, and In Our Time: Empire, Politics, Culture. He is also one of the more perceptive commentators on current events (and U.S. imperialism) as a (...)
There is much more dynamism within the global left, especially in the South, than is often perceived. The rejection of capitalism in many of left movements in the South tends to be accompanied not only by imagining alternatives, but also by shifting views about what constitutes the desirable (...)
Paul LeBlanc is Professor of History and Political Science at La Roche College, Pittsburgh. He is the author of a number of books on revolutionary and radical politics, most recently Marx, Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience and Work and Struggle: Voices from U.S. Labor Radicalism. He spoke (...)
New Left Review at 50: no balloons, of course, and definitely no party games. The very idea of “celebration” smacks of consumerist pseudo-optimism. Mere chronology is, after all, an untheorised concept. We should see it as not so much an anniversary, more an over-determined conjuncture.
A life (...)
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Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose book “A People’s History of the United States” became a million-selling leftist alternative to mainstream texts, died Wednesday in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 87 and lived in Auburndale, Mass.
The cause was a (...)
Howard Zinn, the Boston University historian and political activist who was an early opponent of US involvement in Vietnam and whose books, such as “A People’s History of the United States,” inspired young and old to rethink the way textbooks present the American experience, died today in Santa (...)
Hamba kahle Comrade Dennis Brutus (1924-2009)
There will come a time There will come a time we believe When the shape of the planet and the divisions of the land Will be less important; We will be caught in a glow of friendship a red star of hope will illuminate our lives A star of (...)
Marxist historian renowned for his great work, the Dictionary of Labour Biography.
John Saville, the socialist economic and social historian who has died aged 93, was an academic at Hull University for nearly 40 years, but will be remembered above all for the great, open-ended Dictionary (...)
The "World at a Crossroads: Fighting for Socialism in the 21st Century is quickly turning into an important and invaluable gathering of left and socialist activists from the Asia-Pacific region. (The conference will be held in Sydney over 3 days, April 10-12. For more info visit or buy (...)
The Italian left was once the largest and most impressive popular movement for social change in Western Europe. Comprising two mass parties, each with its own history and culture, and each committed not to ameliorating but to overcoming capitalism, the postwar alliance between Socialists and (...)
Dear comrades,
We would like, first of all, to thank you once again for your participation in the NPA’s congress : 70 organisations from 45 countries were present.
We took a commitment during the meeting of the organisations which had been invited to the NPA’s congress, we are sending you this (...)
Presented here are the organisations which sent a delegation and/or a solidarity message to the founding congress of the New Anti-Capitalist Party (Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste, NPA), February 6-8, 2009. Messages are reproduced in English when we have an English version, if not in French or (...)
From Belem,
At the initiative of the PSOL (Brazil) and the NPA (New Anti-capitalist Party, France) a conference of the international anti-capitalist left took place during the World Social Forum with representatives from 20 countries and around twenty organisations.
Latin America: the PSOL (...)
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