Category: Left Politics

Brian Jones reviews Brian Kwoba’s biography of Hubert Harrison, a radical and socialist Black intellectual in early twentieth-century Harlem.

Peter G. Prontzos positively reviews Eleanor Finley’s book on Murray Bookchin’s ideas on social ecology and their application in Rojava.

An obituary for Ernest Haberkern, a long-time revolutionary socialist militant, a founding member of the Independent Socialist Club and a close comrade of Hal Draper.

In response to Samuel Farber’s critique, Carmelo Mesa-Lago defends his economic reform proposals for Cuba as Keynesian and anti-neoliberal.

Paul Le Blanc recommends Douglas Greene’s latest book In Stalin’s Shadow, a critique of the new wave of Stalinist revisionism.

The late Italian Marxist Domenico Losurdo’s Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend exalts and even deifies the long-ruling Soviet despot Joseph Stalin (1924–1953). Indeed, the text’s cover and inside cover art strikingly depict Stalin with a halo, and

The Dominican Republic’s revolutionary left is caught in a continuous crisis at a time when the Dominican state is under the complete control of the capitalist class and the far right is on the rise both locally and internationally. Mostly

As the global right advances and socialists worldwide grapple with how to build left alternatives, Venezuela’s crisis raises fundamental strategic questions that extend beyond regional borders. The current political, economic, and social situation under Nicolás Maduro’s government represents one of

Michael Pröbsting criticizes distortion of the Marxist theory of imperialism today, which is used to justify support for imperialist states such as China and Russia.

Resistance to President Donald Trump is growing, taking the form of massive, peaceful protest marches, small local rebellions against ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), Democratic Party election victories, and a gradually changing public opinion. One could even talk about a

As we go to print, we have learned of the U.S. attack on Venezuela, the seizing of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, and Trump’s declaration that the U.S. will “run” Venezuela. New Politics unequivocally condemns this operation. We

I do not share the euphoria of so many progressives and socialists at the election of Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City. I came away sobered by it. Many of the left are celebrating Mamdani’s election as signaling

Samuel Barney narrates the history of Clinton Correctional Facility, a prison in upstate New York long used to imprison left radicals.

The events in Minneapolis confirm that we now live in the grip, the death grip, of an authoritarian government, but also that there is a powerful, popular resistance. We are in a struggle for justice, for democracy, and for our lives. And that struggle goes on, most intensely in Minneapolis, but also everywhere else in the country. And the end is not in sight.

Nancy Holmstrom discusses her political and intellectual history and the main themes in a new collection of her essays with the book’s publisher, Haymarket Books.

A socialist Vermont state senator explains how the left must support Ukraine while also supporting Gaza and opposing militarism.

Judy Cox reviews David Camfield’s book Red Flags, a critical examination of authoritarianism in the Actually Existing Socialist societies.

Sean K. Isaacs reviews Sarah Jaffe’s book From the Ashes, a reflection on grief, care and healing in struggles against capitalism.

Stephen Shalom critically reviews Walden Bello’s autobiography Global Battlefields, which covers Bello’s political and intellectual contributions in the Philippines over the past fifty years.

Peter Drucker positively reviews Alan Sears’ latest book Eros and Alienation, a theoretical contribution to queer Marxism.

Frieda Afary recommends Nancy Holmstrom’s From a Marxist-Feminist Point of View, an edited collection of her philosophical essays.