New Politics Vol. XVIII No. 2, Whole Number 70
Robert Sayre and Michael Löwy’s Romantic Anti-capitalism and Nature is an extremely interesting book—enjoyable, informative, and intellectually stimulating.
Naomi Klein says of climate change, “This changes everything.” She is right, and among the things it changes are not only current political . . .
Wilkerson’s adroit storytelling jumps off the page, but the glaring omission in her book is political economy.
Since August 9, Belarus has been the scene of popular protests against what is perceived to be the fraudulent reelection of President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994. The presidential election results gave him a victory with . . .
Gonzalez examines the development of Latin American political economy and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
As we are putting together this issue of New Politics, the United States is experiencing one of the greatest crises in its history. The country has lost more than 300,000 people to the coronavirus pandemic, which continues to run rampant. . . .
An examination of the significance of BRICS countries as “sub-imperial” powers in the context of global capitalism and imperialism.
FROM THE EDITORS
THE U.S. ELECTIONS AND BEYOND
BIDEN REPLACES TRUMP: A MALIGNANT “NORMALCY” IS RESTORED
Thomas Harrison
THE 2020 ELECTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES: A SOCIALIST VIEW FROM AFAR
Rohini Hensman
AUDITING U.S. DEMOCRACY: CLASSICAL LIBERALISM, CONTEMPORARY AMERICA, THE TRUMP YEARS, AND BEYOND
Michael P. McCabe . . .
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor discusses the significance of the struggle against racism and police violence.
Many of us watching with envy from afar—“envy” because the destruction of democratic institutions has gone much further in our countries—have nothing but admiration for the way in which a would-be dictator has been peacefully overthrown.
Bolivia has given the world an impressive lesson in democracy, but reactionary sectors of the country are once again revealing their anti-democratic impulse.
As the eyes of the world were fixated on the outcome of the U.S. presidential election, the U.S. colony of Puerto Rico produced a more satisfying and historic outcome for the left after its local election on Nov. 3, 2020.
The Trump years were deeply undemocratic, but they did not mark an abandonment of a previously rich democratic politics
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