To avoid repeating the Kronstadt tragedy, and to build toward principled world revolution, we can commit to organizing transnational solidarity and speaking out against all forms of authoritarian repression.
Category: Left Politics
Beyond Kronstadt
One must go beyond Kronstadt to understand Kronstadt. One must grasp, first of all, the struggle for human liberation and the hope of Communism.
Analysis of the recent election in Ecuador
The Many Faces of the Left in Ecuador
A look at the debate between the progressive and Indigenous sectors
The elections in Ecuador earlier this year continue to inspire international debate among competing left currents over lessons to be learned.
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.
The Kronstadt Revolt of 1921 as a part of the Great Russian Revolution
The March revolution of 1921, initiated by “Red Kronstadt”, had to complete the cause of the February and October revolutions of 1917. In this context, the Kronstadt revolt of 1921 appears as an integral part of the revolutionary process that took several years.
Kronstadt at 100
On the 100th anniversary of the Kronstadt events, New Politics is hosting a symposium on the historic tragedy, its meaning and significance, and its implications for today’s socialists.
Are Tankie Politics Racist?
Ani White and Gayaal Iddamalgoda argue that so-called “tankie” politics, meaning support for “actually-existing socialist” and “anti-imperialist” states, erase struggles in the Global South.
The Fight Against Antisemitism is the Fight for Total Liberation
In Confronting Antisemitism on the Left, Daniel Randall challenges socialists to confront antisemitism with the same vigor they have taken on other struggles against oppression.
Socialists and Free Speech Revisited
How should socialists who support democratic rights approach current controversies regarding the practical application of the right to free speech? This review essay explores this question discussing David Renton’s recent book.
21st Century Internationalism of the Oppressed
A Comradely Response to Ajamu Baraka
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.
French Anti-Pass Demonstrations on the Eve of the Presidential Election
The fragmentation of the left has led to an almost certain second-round dual between Macron and Le Pen in 2022, with grave implications for the future of an explicitly left mass movement.
On behalf of the New Politics editorial board
NP on Cuba: Consistent Opposition to US Imperialism and Support of Democratic Rights
We welcome the opportunity to clarify misrepresentations of New Politics editorial stance about Cuba and US imperialism.
Recovering the Dialectic of Race and Class Struggle in the USA
In Defense of Richard Wright & Cedric Johnson’s Actually Existing Black Marxism
Insights from Richard Wright and Cedric Robinson lend support to Cedric Johnson’s view of Black Marxism.
The IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report: A Green-Syndicalist Analysis
Since publication of its first assessment report in 1990, the IPCC has borne witness to the ever-worsening problem of anthropogenic climate disruption, together with what amounts to humanity’s suicidal failure to address the factors threatening collective destruction.
One Hundred Years Ago A Very Different Chinese Communist Party Was Born
The Chinese Communist Party, founded in 1921 by revolutionary socialists inspired by democratic Marxism and the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, was essentially destroyed by Chiang Kai-shek in 1927-28.
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).
Marx’s Commune
An Appreciation and a Critique
For the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune, an analysis of Marx’s views on the Commune and its historical possibilities.
Understanding the Paris Commune On its 150th Anniversary
What is the significance of the Paris Commune for us today? A model for socialists? A heroic failure? Negation of the state? Or the first workers’ government?
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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Marxism and Art
In his most recent book, John Molyneux provides a well-researched overview and analysis of the visual arts in Western society, written from the standpoint of revolutionary Marxism. Molyneux was a longtime member of the UK Socialist Workers Party and is . . .
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