Where has Iran stood during the popular movements in Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria?
Author: newpolitics
The Other Regional Counter-Revolution
Iran’s Role in the Shifting Political Landscape of the Middle East
Sanctions: An Overview and Application to Myanmar Solidarity
What should the Left’s attitude be towards sanctions against the military regime in Myanmar?
Tiananmen: For a Different Kind of Remembrance
Only by becoming connected to young people and their movements can any remembrance of a past movement stand a chance of continuing to renew itself and inspire new generations for social change.
Reflections of an Anti-Imperialist after Ten Years of Debate
What does it mean to be a left anti-imperialist today? Stephen R. Shalom interviews Gilbert Achcar.
Remembering Mark Levitan: Comrade and Dear Friend
Student radical, trade union militant, and economist. Michael Hirsch pays tribute to a comrade who has gone too soon.
The faux anti-imperialism of denying anti-Uighur atrocities
Why are some Western ‘anti-imperialists’ determined to whitewash China’s well-documented crimes against the Uighurs?
Israel’s Racism and the Misuse of Antisemitism
Israel’s official discourse vehemently denies its “deeply ingrained institutionalized” anti-Arab racism and the settler-colonial nature of its state, although it is as blatant as could be and was even acknowledged by Zionism’s prominent historical figures.
Prospects of Joint Class Struggle
Talk of mass ‘joint struggle’ against the Zionist regime in the present circumstances is facile, but it is a mistake to think in a rigid static way.
Erasing People through Disinformation: Syria and the “Anti-Imperialism” of Fools
Disreputable writers and outlets, often operating under the aegis of “independent journalism” with purportedly “leftwing” views, are spreading corrosive propaganda and disinformation that aims to strip Syrians of political agency.
The Cost of “Financial Literacy”
The book suggests that the key to ascending from the working class is to join the owning class through investing, where you can forever feed from the golden trough of passive-income, typically replenished by the working class you were once a part of.
Venezuela
How did Chavismo win 92% of the National Assembly?
The high abstention indicates that the working majority understood the irrelevance of the election. Voting could not have any impact on the disastrous national situation because the parliament had been de facto deprived of all its functions for several years.
Structures of Fossil Feeling
In this easily accessible, passionately argued intervention, Dawson gives the reader both a valuable primer on contemporary struggles for energy justice and an entry into the theoretical debates whose outcome will inform and guide movement strategy going forward.
As Biden Restores A Malignant “Normalcy,” It’s High Time The Left Declared Its Independence From The Democrats
It is misleading to see the election as a victory of democracy over authoritarianism. Biden’s win is the triumph not of democracy but of an oligarchic status quo, itself an increasingly authoritarian system.
The 2020 Elections in the United States: A Socialist View from Afar
Many of us watching with envy from afar—“envy” because the destruction of democratic institutions has gone much further in our countries—have nothing but admiration for the way in which a would-be dictator has been peacefully overthrown.
Once More on the Greater Evil
Stephen R. Shalom replies again on the question of voting for the lesser evil to defeat Trump.
The greater evil
A response to Charlie Post and Ashley Smith
Stephen R. Shalom criticizes the arguments against lesser-evil voting and makes the case for the Left both to support Biden and build the social movements.
No Justice, No Peace! Raising the Social Cost through Direct Action!
Growing numbers of individuals and growing social movements that have broken with the ideology that there is no alternative to neoliberalism (TINA) and acting on the belief that there is a liberatory alternative to racial capitalism is central to raising the social cost.
The Movement for Black Lives Is Different This Time
Late May and early June saw the biggest wave of mass rebellion in the United States since the 1960s. Protests erupted in every major city and in all fifty states, demanding an end to racist police brutality. The character of these uprisings has been less like protests and more like rebellions.
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