“Cancel Culture” and Its Perils
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“Cancel Culture” and Its Perils
There is no question that “cancel culture” is a legitimate tool of a vibrant democratic culture, especially as it allows the powerless to redress the abuses and the offensive behavior directed at them by powerful public figures.
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Towards the Brown International of the European and Global Far Right?
Modi’s India, Putin’s Russia, Bolsonaro’s Brazil, Orban’s Hungary, and soon Giorgia Meloni’s Italy and maybe Trump II’s United States, the picture is far from being exhaustive but it still gives an idea of the seriousness of the threat that now hangs over humanity.
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DSA Discusses Ukraine—Without an International Socialist Perspective
The Democratic Socialists of America organized a panel discussion on Ukraine on August 28, but it made no reference to the central issue of Ukraine’s right to self-determination.
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Ukraine: Between Hope and Fear
While I share the apprehensions of many, those of us on the international socialist left also have hopes that war in Ukraine can lead to making the world a better and safer place.
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Laurent Schwartz: The Vicissitudes of an Internationalist
The first of an occasional series of articles on the lives of figures of the French left. For more than a decade, from 1936 to 1947, Laurent Schwartz (1915-2002), the famous mathematician, was a Trotskyist in France, though that was only one
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Russia: An Imperialist Power or a “Non-Hegemonic Empire in Gestation”? A reply to the Argentinean economist Claudio Katz An Essay (with 8 Tables)
Since the year 2001 I have defended the thesis that Russia is an imperialist power.
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Book Review: Two Failures of Vision
Doug Greene, A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism. Washington: 2021. 260 pages. Notes. Bibliography. No index. Doug Greene has written his critical political biography of Michael Harrington, in large part it seems because he wants
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“We Must Rebuild a Left-wing Student Union in Ukraine”: Interview with Ukrainian Student Activists
Ukrainian students: Maxim and Katya Patrick Le Tréhondat of the Syllepse Publishing House collective conducted an interview with two Ukrainian university students, Katya and Maxim. Katya studies at the Academy of the Arts and Maxim is a computer science student. This
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Ukraine Labor Law Reform Campaign
It is with dismay that we learn—right in the middle of their life-and-death struggle—that Ukraine’s working people have come under attack on a second front: laws attacking their labor rights and working conditions have been passing through the Ukrainian parliament.
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On Contradiction: Mao’s Party-Substitutionist Revolution in Theory and Practice – Part 4
Explaining and debunking the theory and practice of Maoism. Part 4.
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The Right to Resist: A Feminist Manifesto
We, feminists from Ukraine, call on feminists around the world to stand in solidarity with the resistance movement of the Ukrainian people against the predatory, imperialist war unleashed by the Russian Federation.
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Their Values and Ours: The Debate over Western Values and the Values of the Socialist Left
Where does the Left stand and where should it stand on this question of “Western values”?
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On Contradiction: Mao’s Party-Substitutionist Revolution in Theory and Practice – Part 3
Explaining and debunking the theory and practice of Maoism. Part 3.
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On Contradiction: Mao’s Party-Substitutionist Revolution in Theory and Practice – Part 2
Explaining and debunking the theory and practice of Maoism. Part 2.
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The Conquest of Ukraine and the History of Russian Imperialism
Historically, Russian imperialism has been based on the ideas of “amassing Russian lands” and building a “unique and indivisible” Russian state.
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The Ukraine War Will End, But How?
The Ukraine war is a convergence of three wars: 1) Ukraine defending itself against the Russian invasion, 2) the inter-imperialist cold war between the US-led bloc of the established powers and the Russia-China bloc challenging them, and 3) the civil war between the Ukrainian government and Russian separatists.
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The Necessity of Organizing DSA Members as Workers
Lastly, the synthesis of skills, experience, and political perspective required in the labor movement, and thereby in DSA’s labor work, are all ultimately based on the experience of organizing in the workplace and in the union.
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DSA and the Russian War on Ukraine: Political Paralysis
Why is DSA in this anomalous position: A political organization with no useful position on the central foreign policy question of the day?
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Putin’s conquest of southeast Ukraine
Ukraine’s decisions should not be subject to the approval of either western imperialism or the western imperial left.
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Ukrainian Feminists under Western Eyes
Westerners need to understand the perspective of Ukrainian feminists.
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Rosario Ibarra: Mexican Socialist Feminist, 1927-2022. Presente!
Rosario Ibarra de Piedra, one of the most important figures of the Mexican left, died on April 16, 2022 at her home in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon at the age of 95.
