Author: Suzi Weissman

Suzi Weissman is a professor of politics at Saint Mary’s College of California and host of Beneath the Surface on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles and of Jacobin Radio, and the author of Victor Serge: A Political Biography.

“Being Loud Helps”

Russia’s Political Prisoners and the People Who Speak for Them

An Interview with Simon Pirani and Aleksandra Zapolskaia

By: Suzi Weissman Summer 2026

Russia today holds more political prisoners than at any time since the post-Stalin thaw of the 1950s. Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian state has systematically prosecuted antiwar critics on charges ranging from “discrediting the

Two Tributes to Jesse Lemisch

By: Marcus Rediker, Suzi WeissmanAugust 29, 2018

New Politics sponsor Jesse Lemisch died on August 25, 2018. He will be greatly missed as a radical historian, a friend, and a tireless fighter for socialism (and history!) from below.

Here are memories from two friends.

The Russian Revolution, Soviets, and Socialist Democracy

An Interview with Suzi Weissman

By: Suzi Weissman Summer 2017

“Revolutions are the mad inspiration of history”

Leon Trotsky, My Life

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