The voice of the Ukrainian left
Category: Left Politics
Commons: A Ukrainian left-wing collective intellectual
An interview with the editorial board of Ukraine’s leading left journal
Kali Akuno to Get 2023 Peace Award
Kali and his fellow members of Cooperation Jackson are creating a model for how the rest of us might be able to achieve peace on and with Earth.
Review: Socialism in Yiddish
Socialism in Yiddish: The Jewish Labor Bund in Sweden
by Hakkan Blomqvist
Translated by Blomqvist and Glasser
(Stockholm, Sodertons University, 2021)
The Jewish Labor Bund in Stockholm, Sweden, marching with the Swedish Social-Democrats on the First of May 1946
If one knows anything . . .
Constitutions Are the Problem
An excerpt from We the Elites: Why the US Constitution Serves the Few. Direct self-organization makes a constitutional system unnecessary while simultaneously dismantling the rule of property.
Book Review Essay: Mexico, Transnational and World Revolution
While I admire the political values of these two scholars, I don’t find either of these books satisfying because they like many other authors perpetuate the romantic view of Ricardo Flores Magón.
On the Anniversary of Russia’s War on Ukraine: Analyzing the Roots of Russian Imperialism
Ukraine has long been a victim of Russian imperialism, pre-capitalist, capitalist, Soviet, and then state-capitalist.
Our Slogan Is “War Against War”
Russian socialists on the nature of the war in Ukraine and the delusions of Western “pacifists”
review
The Rise and Fall of the Corbyn Left
A review of Michael Chessum’s inside account and analysis of Corbynism’s trajectories and defeat.
review
Life-making Through Socialist Feminism
On Afary’s compelling case for socialist feminism as an urgent response to twenty-first century crises.
Conceptions of Dual Power and Prefigurative Politics
Wayne Price delineates and examines two complementary tendencies in libertarian socialist politics – a strategy of building alternate institutions and another based on revolutionary mass struggles.
Old Bolshevism, New Bolshevism, and Lenin’s April Theses
Karl Kautsky as Theorist of Permanent Revolution?
John Marot defends the interpretation of Lenin’s April Theses as the pivotal turning point for the Bolsheviks, countering Lars Lih’s and Eric Blanc’s historical narrative.
Revisiting Their Morals and Ours
A critical examination of Trotsky’s evolving views on revolutionary morality and democracy in revolutionary movements.
When Sri Lanka Operated Workers’ Councils
The history of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party in Sri Lanka and its leading role in establishing workers’ councils across the public sector in the 1970s.
A Revolutionary Way of Doing Politics Is Taking Shape in Sudan
Sudanese activist Muzan Alneel discusses four years of the Sudanese Revolution and the crucial role played by neighborhood Resistance Committees.
From the Editors
New Politics editors provide an analysis of the political situations today and discuss contents in this issue.
review
Socialism or Barbarism! Truer than Ever?
Michael Broz reviews Neil Faulkner’s book of Marxist analysis on the accelerating ecological and social crisis.
We Should Demand Democratic Workplaces, But What Does That Mean?
As we build collective power with coworkers, negotiate with management, and make demands of employers, workplace democracy is a way of talking about having a say. But what does that mean?
Letter from an American to Russian Soldiers as Christmas Approaches
Putin could end this war today if he wanted. So could you and your comrades in arms if you refuse to fight or simply begin to go home.
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