Category: Left Politics
Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary
By: Mitchell Abidor
Pluto Press, 2025
Victor Serge died almost penniless in the back of a taxicab in Mexico City in 1947. He was not yet revered as one of the world’s greatest writers, but he had known some
By: Mitchell Abidor
Pluto Press, 2025
Victor Serge died almost penniless in the back of a taxicab in Mexico City in 1947. He was not yet revered as one of the world’s greatest writers, but he had known some
Of course, as an author who wrote a book that a reader misunderstood, I apologize to readers of the book and of Sernatinger’s review, and to Andrew himself, for any confusion I have caused.
Thomas Harrison recounts history and an experience of the Independent Socialist Club in the 1960s Berkeley, which later became the International Socialists (IS) nationwide.
Anne Mackie recounts history of UPSurge, a rank-and-file movement of UPS workers in the Teamsters in the 1970s, in which she actively participated.
Alan Wald reviews A Collective History of the International Socialists, praising its in-depth insights while calling for more critical perspectives.
Andrew Sernatinger reviews a new edition of the 1982 classic Teamster Rank and File, an in-depth study of the rank-and-file movement at Local 208 in Los Angeles, offering a prescient critique of the TDU’s electoralism.
Siyavash Shahabi critiques campism as an abdication of class independence and a symptom of the weakness of independent working-class politics today.
The rave reception for Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country is a breakthrough for Jewish radicals. After decades of Zionist hegemony within U.S. Jewish communities, including on the left, suddenly Crabapple’s avowedly, even fiercely anti-Zionist book is
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
In an interview, Daniel Gross discusses strategies for powerful rank-and-file unionism in the United States today.
Donald Trump in his second term is a president like no other American chief executive. Dominating the Republican Party that controls Congress and with a compliant Supreme Court, he has as he promised unleashed political and economic chaos, shattering
Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? (or Pipers) is a neo-Stalinist hatchet job targeting the German intellectuals, most of them Jewish, who associated with the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research before, during, and in some cases after
The book sets out to familiarize uninitiated DSA members with the terms of political debates that are in play nearly ten years after the organization’s resurgence in 2016.
Daniel “Des” Sanchez Estrada was sentenced today to 30 years in federal prison over possessing and moving a box of zines—politically expressive pamphlets.
The revolution and this anti-imperialist resistance revealed the potential of solidarity between Haitians and Dominicans who to this day share an island that was divided two-hundred and fifty years ago by the European imperialist powers.
A Cepeda victory will strengthen the working class, the social movements, and the oppressed whereas a victory of the right will place the repressive apparatus of the state firmly in the hands of the forces of reaction.
Americans are among those who have volunteered to join Myanmar’s resistance to the military junta that took power in a 2021 coup. In this interview a young volunteer from California shares an account of what drove him to take up arms.
All are invited to a conference celebrating the life and work of labor champion Tony Mazzocchi.
That people cannot afford their lives is the designed outcome of an economic system that hoards resources for billionaires, exploiting workers to insulate the overwhelmingly white ruling class.
Kali Akuno—co-founder of Cooperation Jackson and a lifelong movement builder—is facing a serious and urgent health crisis. He needs immediate access to specialized cardiac care that he simply cannot get in Mississippi.
There seems to be nothing at present to stop Trump from terminating the Cuban Communist government.
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