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Free Russian Political Prisoners!
| November 29, 2012 |
We the undersigned call for the liberation of the Russian political prisoners, both those already condemned, and sent to the new Gulag, like the two feminist activists of the Pussy Riot group, and those in jail awaiting trial – some 20 activists, socialists and anti-fascists, in connection with the demonstrations against Putin on May 6th.
A Call to Join in the International Days of Solidarity Against Political Repression in Russia
| Russian Socialist Movement, Autonomous Action, Left Front November 19, 2012 |
An appeal from the Russian leftists to their comrades in the struggle:
NY Times Obituary for Michael Wreszin, New Politics contributor
| Joanne Landy September 17, 2012 |
In a surprisingly warm and positive obituary, the New York Times noted the death of Michael Wreszin in August of this year. The obit says of Wrezin's writings, "His subjects were cosmopolitan, humanist thinkers who saw a growing militarism in American political culture but whose scrupulous habits of mind could make them misfits in the ideological camps they joined.” Mike Wreszin was a frequent contributor to New Politics. We miss him already.
Russia, The Return of the Revolution: An Appeal
| Richard Greeman February 22, 2012 |
“Yesterday (Feb. 4, 2012) more than 100 000 people marched on the streets in the centre of Moscow despite severe cold (-20C) demanding free and fair elections and the end of Vladimir Putin’s authoritarian rule. Following on the mass demonstrations of December 10th and 24th in Moscow, in which tens of thousands of people took part, this shows clearly that the period of social passivity in Russia is over; the Putin era is nearing its end.
Chomsky on Anarchism
Letter: Seth Farber Winter 2011George Fish’s review of Chomsky on Anarchism does not serve Chomsky well at all. While Mr. Fish gives a picturesque description of many of the essays in the book there is no indication that he seriously wrestled with Chomsky’s ideas on anarchism, socialism, the Russian revolution, the roots of totalitarianism, the vanguard party — the big ideas that Chomsky addresses.
Zimbabwe and Rhode Island: The new exemplar for labor
| Lois Weiner February 26, 2010 |
“Unions are killing the economy” says Henry Blodget at the Business Insider. He gleefully applauds the firing of every teacher in a Rhode Island school for their arrogance. How dare workers, teachers especially, think they have a voice in their working conditions or salaries? How uppity of teachers to sneer at the bosses’ absolutist control of the workplace. Let’s recall that Henry Blodget was indicated for insider trading.
A Hostile Biography of Leon Trotsky
| Reviewed by Paul Le Blanc January 1, 2010 |
Robert Service. Trotsky: A Biography. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. 600 pages, including end notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.
The Class Struggle in Post-Soviet Russia
| by Boris Kagarlitsky | Summer 2009 |
TRANSLATED BY MICHEL VALE
THE RESTORATION OF CAPITALISM on the territory of the former Soviet Union was accompanied not only by unprecedented attacks on the social rights of the population. (Not only rights characteristic of the Soviet system, e.g., the right to housing, were rescinded, but also many of those that in the West are considered a normal attribute of a civilized attitude toward the wage laborer). No less impressive was the ease with which the new bourgeoisie imposed its conditions on the workers.
LGBT Political Cul-de-sac: Make a U-Turn
| by Sherry Wolf | Winter 2009 |
Electoral Cul-de-sac
Socialism and Homosexuality
| by Thomas Harrison | Winter 2009 |
SAME-SEX DESIRE has always been a part of human life.There is much evidence, though not yet conclusive, that a predominant sexual attraction to members of one’s own sex is innate. But innate or not, we know that it is definitely formed early in life, certainly before the age of ten.