An assessment of the July 11 Protests in Cuba
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An assessment of the July 11 Protests in Cuba
Analysis from a Cuban historian and writer based in Matanzas, Cuba.
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The Dead End of Liberation Theology
We as socialists do ourselves no favors by treating religion less like an ideology or an institution that can be ruthlessly critiqued like any other and more like a quasi-natural part of one’s very being.
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Iran’s Role in the Shifting Political Landscape of the Middle East
Where has Iran stood during the popular movements in Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria?
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Sanctions: An Overview and Application to Myanmar Solidarity
What should the Left’s attitude be towards sanctions against the military regime in Myanmar?
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Notes on Class Struggle Unionism under Biden
In my remarks I look back at the tradition of the Third Camp, articulated in publications of and about the Workers Party and Independent Socialist League, as well as my involvement in Berkeley with the Independent Socialist Club and the International Socialists.
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Pathways to Solidarity: Struggles against Police Brutality in the U.S., Myanmar, and Iran
Why is so little explicit connection being made by activists between the Black Lives Matter uprising in the U.S., the current mass uprising in Myanmar, and the ongoing struggles in Iran?
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DSA: Solidarity with the Venezuelan people or with the regime?
A pro-regime conference is not the way to show solidarity with the people of Venezuela.
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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.
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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.
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The Lausan Collective on Colonialism in Hong Kong
This is an original translation into English of an interview conducted with Lausan, a collective of writers, translators, artists, and organizers, that appeared in German in IZ3W, a left German publication.
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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.
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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?
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American Progressives and France’s Surge to the Right
Macron’s newest orders banning demonstrations in solidarity with Palestine reveal even more clearly the real nature of France’s anti-Muslim campaign, one that the U.S. and French Left have with few exceptions mostly ignored.
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India’s Covid Crisis: Can the Modi Regime Get India Out of It?
It’s hard to live in India these days, surrounded by death, fear and grief. We are inundated with heart-breaking TV reports of people begging for hospital beds and oxygen as their family members die on the pavement or in vehicles gasping for breath.
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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.
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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.
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Their anti-imperialism and ours
The logic of “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” is a recipe for empty cynicism.
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Heads up! Chins down! Resisting the New Bipartisan Neoliberal Project in Education
Teachers’ work is being transformed beneath our collective nose. We have missed an opportunity to combat the project in its earliest stages but we cannot delay in understanding and combating the new iteration of neoliberalism’s global project in education.
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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.
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Union Democracy and “The Final Goal”
Union democracy or more accurately the transformation of major unions into living democratic participatory organizations and cultures is a necessity precisely because of the corporations’ massive powers of resistance.
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Union Democracy is Our Goal But Is It Practical? Responding to Nelson Lichtenstein
Nelson Lichtenstein and I agree on two major ideas that I think distinguish our shared viewpoint from the practice of many union officials and some of their supporters on the left.
