Summer 2020 (New Politics, Vol. XVIII, No. 1, Whole Number 69)
WITH MILITARISM AND AUTHORITARIANISM ON THE RISE in numerous global and regional powers, there is a crucial need for updating and strengthening a politics of socialist anti-imperialism. Historically, many on the left felt the need to ally with the Soviet
Union . . .
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An exchange between Sara Lee and Alexandra Holmstrom-Smith
Sara Lee and Alexandra Holmstrom-Smith debate the position that the left should take on surrogacy, arrangements where a woman agrees to bear a child for others.
The coronavirus pandemic has both detonated a global economic crisis and exacerbated a preexisting crisis, economic and political, of the capitalist world economy.
A review of Josh Freeman’s history of factories.
A History of Radical Labor
A review of Toni Gilpin’s history of labor struggles in the American heartland.
A review essay on Steve Ellner’s collection on the Latin American turn to the left.
An exploration of the meaning and implications of “campism.”
The relationship between Russia and the left from 1917.
The Fight Against Modi and Hindutva in the Era of COVID-19
Samantha Agarwal discusses the foundations of BJP rule in India and prospects for resistance.
Listening to Dylan During COVID-19
A review of Bob Dylan’s “Murder Most Foul.”
We Must Fight for the Future
The United States confronts an uncertain future in the face of an unprecedented situation.
The Socialist Register Since the 1960s
A review of a collection of articles from the early years of The Socialist Register.
Public Health Crisis, War, and Financial Crash
Public health crisis, financial crash, and the new scramble for Africa.
In 2019, a new virus of the coronavirus family emerged in Wuhan, China, and the disease that was caused by this virus was named COVID-19 to indicate both the virus associated with it and the year it began. “Patient Zero,” . . .
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The United States and China are locked in a spiraling conflict over everything from the pandemic to trade, investment, high tech, geopolitics, and military hegemony in Asia.
The Communist Manifesto never seems to go out of style for very long.
Even though it is only half over, 2020 has already proved to be one of the most tumultuous—and inspiring—years in recent political history. It has been a year of dramatic swings backwards and forwards, with hope giving way to despair, . . .
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Summer 2020 (New Politics, Vol. XVIII, No. 1, Whole Number 69)
THE HISTORIC SANDERS CAMPAIGN has come to a close, and the strength of social movements will be critical after November, whether to build the left in the face of a Democratic president carrying out the party’s neoliberal policies or to . . .
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How socialists in organizations outside of the Sanders campaign operate and what this situation demands of us.
An assessment of the ongoing protests and developing movement following the murder of George Floyd.
Bernie Sanders’ campaign for president has changed politics as we know it.