Category: Left Politics

An inappropriate award to Jeffrey Sachs

How should the left respond to NATO expansionism and Western imperialist policy? As anti-imperialists we reject both NATO imperialism and Putin’s imperialist reaction to it.

In this essay, I attempt to offer a Marxist examination of Zionism and some of its essential features: its völkisch character, its settler colonial character, and its relation to imperialism.

We must continue to remember so that no one is forgotten, so that no face is forgotten, and so that our experience is not forgotten.

Davis’ loyalty to the  CP led her in 1980 and 1984 to accept the party’s assignment that she be the running mate of diehard Stalinist party leader Gus Hall.

In this classic work, Rosa Luxemburg situates mass strikes at the center of revolutionary political dynamics.

A vision of how a socialist, participatory economy could function.

Robert Ovetz describes the significance of a new collection of Rosa Luxemburg’s writings on revolution from 1906 to 1909, recently published in English.

Kevin Van Meter discusses the 1947 pamphlet “the American Worker,” its international impact and the significance of workers’ inquiry.

In their review of Gaudichaud et al.’s book, “The Impasse of the Latin American Left,” Paley and Whitener call for greater focus on autonomous social movements.

Raymar Aguado Hernández denounces Cuban state repression of critical leftists

Lynn Cruz calls for situating Cuban politics in the context of the world capitalist system

Alina Bárbara López Hernández rejects the Cuban state’s claim to be on the left.

James Buckwalter-Arias introduces the collection of contributions from critical leftists in Cuba.

Alexander Hall Lujardo develops the emancipatory anti-capitalist critique of Cuban state socialism.

Lisbeth Moya González discusses how the international left can be in solidarity with the critical Cuban left.

The ties between India and Russia, and a call for the Indian left to support Ukraine against the Russian invasion.

José A. Laguarta Ramírez presents an in-depth discussion of the history of the Puerto Rican radical left.

The most important Black candidate of the radical 1960s and 70s, if we judge by votes and delegates, was Shirley Chisholm.

New Politics editors survey the current political landscape and introduces articles in the Summer 2023 issue.

We express our solidarity with Boris Kagarlitsky and demand his immediate release, as well as that of all those detained on political grounds.