Category: Left Politics

Pietro Maestri discusses positions of various left groups in Italy regarding the war in Ukraine and calls for solidarity with the Ukrainian resistance.

Tom Dale discusses why the left should support Ukraine’s self-defense, based on Lenin’s analysis of imperialism.

Doug Greene, A Failure of Vision: Michael Harrington and the Limits of Democratic Socialism. Washington: 2021. 260 pages. Notes. Bibliography. No index.
Doug Greene has written his critical political biography of Michael Harrington, in large part it seems because he wants

It is with dismay that we learn—right in the middle of their life-and-death struggle—that Ukraine’s working people have come under attack on a second front: laws attacking their labor rights and working conditions have been passing through the Ukrainian parliament.

Explaining and debunking the theory and practice of Maoism. Part 4.

Why the peace movement should support Ukraine

Standing Together, as a movement, stands for an Israeli-Palestinian peace based on justice and independence for both peoples of this country, while knowing full well that the real problem lies with the unwillingness of the Israeli political establishment to advance towards such a solution.

We, feminists from Ukraine, call on feminists around the world to stand in solidarity with the resistance movement of the Ukrainian people against the predatory, imperialist war unleashed by the Russian Federation.

Where does the Left stand and where should it stand on this question of “Western values”?

Explaining and debunking the theory and practice of Maoism. Part 3.

Although the Cuban Revolution of 1959 had enormous popular support, especially in its early years, that support did not express itself in any autonomous initiative and control from below.

Explaining and debunking the theory and practice of Maoism. Part 2.

Historically, Russian imperialism has been based on the ideas of “amassing Russian lands” and building a “unique and indivisible” Russian state.

The role of the various Sri Lankan political parties in the current crisis.

Explaining and debunking the theory and practice of Maoism. Part 1.

Why is DSA in this anomalous position: A political organization with no useful position on the central foreign policy question of the day?

Report by an international delegate to a solidarity conference with Ukraine

Explaining the positions of the Spanish left on Ukraine

Statement from anti-capitalist organizations

What should our attitude be towards arms to Ukraine?

Response of Ukrainian socialists to the ban on some political parties