Issue term: Winter 2023
A review of Michael Chessum’s inside account and analysis of Corbynism’s trajectories and defeat.
On Afary’s compelling case for socialist feminism as an urgent response to twenty-first century crises.
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.
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.
A critical examination of Trotsky’s evolving views on revolutionary morality and democracy in revolutionary movements.
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.
Sudanese activist Muzan Alneel discusses four years of the Sudanese Revolution and the crucial role played by neighborhood Resistance Committees.
Donald C. Wood assesses the failed record of economic policies pursued by Shinzo Abe, right-wing former Prime Minister of Japan.
Patrick Le Tréhondat interviews Serhiy Hirik, a Ukrainian scholar of Jewish studies, on antisemitism in Ukraine.
New Politics editors provide an analysis of the political situations today and discuss contents in this issue.
Michael Broz reviews Neil Faulkner’s book of Marxist analysis on the accelerating ecological and social crisis.
Peter Ranis reviews Ilya Budraitskis’s book on the history of left dissidents in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia.
Simón Rodríguez Porras discusses popular mobilizations in Haiti against the current regime, and the history of imperialist interventions in Haiti.
Legal scholar Elizabeth Rapaport discusses the dangers to democracy posed by the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case Moore v. Harper.
Historian Stéfanie Prezioso traces the rise of revisionist historiography on Italian fascism.
