Bolivia Update: Arce’s First Year
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Bolivia Update: Arce’s First Year
In October and November of 2019, clashes over the validity of presidential elections in Bolivia led to protests and the eventual ouster of the leftist Indigenous president Evo Morales, in what most observers characterized as a coup. In the year
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Education Reforms and Capitalism’s Changes to Work
Join us for a webinar Jan. 20, 2022, 7:30 pm (EST) as Lois Weiner and teacher union activists discuss how the revived attacks on teachers and their unions reflect capitalism’s chilling alteration of work. Details will be posted shortly.
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Liberals Look To Weingarten, Again, To Betray Teachers, Parents, and Students
Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers, is once again doing the work of big money.
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Help Afghan Women. Do Not Recognize the Taliban Government.
An Interview with a representative of RAWA inside Afghanistan
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U.S. Strikes of 2021 in Context : What’s Happening and Why?
By now you will have read about the strikes of 2021. For one thing, there are more of them, some in industries where we haven’t seen many strikes for a while like retail, entertainment, or major manufacturing firms; others in
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The Two Souls of Aplutsoc
John Barzman responds to Aplutsoc’s criticisms of his interview with New Politics about social resistance to the French health pass.
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Social Resistance to the Health Pass
Continuing debate about the health pass and social resistance in France: The editorial board of Aplutsoc responds to New Politics’ coverage.
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Afghanistan and Its Challenge to Feminism
How should anti-imperialists relate to the coming to power of the misogynist Taliban regime in Afghanistan?
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Politics, Not Prosecution, Is the Answer to Antisemitism
A review of David Renton’s book on what the Left got wrong in dealing with the antisemitism crisis in the British Labour party.
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It’s Easier to Imagine a Mark Fisher Meme than the End of Platform Capitalism
A constellation of events has thrown left wing memes into the mainstream, leading to a confirmation of the late Mark Fisher’s thesis that countercultural trends tend to be co-opted by capitalist media.
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What is Left in the Neoliberal University?
The neoliberal university exploits intellectual labor under a veneer of liberal-humanist values — a false consciousness which emerging working-class academics must overcome.
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Contingent Faculty Activism Pushes Legislation into Congressional Budget Reconciliation
The rising movement among contingent faculty has pushed bills onto CA Gov. Newsom’s desk and into the budget reconciliation process in Congress.
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The Political Creativity of Sylvia Pankhurst
Socialists and feminists (and socialist feminists) can profoundly benefit from the legacy of Sylvia Pankhurst who is equally deserving of the contemporary attention given to Rosa Luxemburg and Alexandra Kollontai.
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21st Century Internationalism of the Oppressed
How does one understand the question of the internationalism of the oppressed? In order to answer this, there are two basic principles we start with: (1) a concrete analysis of concrete conditions, and (2) the law and nature of contradictions.
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How Work Is Killing Us
Three authors—Jamie McCallum, Sarah Jaffe, and Eyal Press– have published important books that examine work and its discontents, in pre-pandemic form.
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Going into Labor
Expecting working people to do the jobs for which they are paid and also help organize their workplaces is a huge ask. One invaluable asset we have is seeing the inseparability of struggles for social justice and workplace democracy.
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Recovering the Dialectic of Race and Class Struggle in the USA
Insights from Richard Wright and Cedric Robinson lend support to Cedric Johnson’s view of Black Marxism.
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The Failure of American Empire Lite
The only thing “lite” about American empire turned out to be a dogged unwillingness to accept any culpability in using power to try and remake the world, instead insisting that the exercise of violence could be innocent as long as the right people were doing it.
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Who’s Buried in the Graveyard of Empires?
The Afghan government’s fate is but the most recent in a long list of cases of puppet entities created by a foreign occupation that collapse when that occupation ends.
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On Remembering Stanley Aronowitz
Brother Stanley Aronowitz was always ahead of the curve, with his criticism of the shortcomings of old labor and his envisioning of “a new workers movement” that might replace it.
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The Inaugural Historical Materialism East Asia Conference – Information Here
We think readers of New Politics may want to know about (and participate in) the inaugural Historical Materialism East Asia conference (online).
