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Transition is the problem of our times. Energy transitions, technological transitions, green transitions, political transitions, just transitions… revolution. As COVID-19 variants kill millions, as habitats and species flicker out of existence, as homes burn or are swept away, as crops fail, and (…)
We live in a period where one-size-fits all explanations for the injustices and challenges facing the world often do more to obscure than enlighten. This poses a challenge to progressives, human rights and pro-democracy activists because there is always the temptation to lean heavily on black (…)
With the decline of Fianna Fáil and momentum behind Sinn Féin [in Ireland], the question of kicking out the establishment parties is likely to increasingly dominate politics. How revolutionaries engage with this process, what slogans we advance can either help to speed up the development of (…)
What is the theory of permanent revolution? How has been tested by reality? What is its relevance today?
I. Genesis of the theory of permanent revolution
The term “permanent revolution” comes from Marx and Engels. During the revolution of 1848-1849, and even more so as a result of its (…)
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 (…)
The French “mainstream media” has not exactly relayed this, but a demand has made its way from across the Atlantic, thanks to historic mobilizations against racism and police violence: that of the abolition of the police. This slogan, which was the prerogative of some small groups who in general (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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 (…)
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