- From The Editors
- The Movement for Black Lives Is Different This Time, Haley Pessin
- Special Section: The Covid Crisis
- Pandemic, Depression, and Authoritarianism, Dan La Botz and Sherry Baron
- Coronavirus and the World Economy, Alejandro Reuss
- A Global View of Coronavirus, Medical Policy, and Research, Gérard Chaouat
- Symposium: Organizing After Bernie — Activists Respond
- Moving On from Bernie, Taheerah Barney
- The Struggle for Power Continues, Bill Fletcher Jr.
- After Bernie, DSA Will Be Essential, Mindy Isser
- We’re Not Just Along for The Ride, Natalia Tylim
- S. Imperialism and Africa’s ‘Perfect Storm’, Lee Wengraf
- Symposium: Anti-Imperialism and the Rise of Authoritarianism, “Left” and Right
- From the Russian Revolution to Russia Today, Rohini Hensman
- Authoritarianism and Resistance in India, Samantha Agarwal
- China and the United States: A New Cold War, Ashley Smith And Kevin Lin
- “Campism” and the “New” (Anti-) Imperialisms, Bryant William Sculos
- Review Essays
- Robbers, Takers and Givers: Capitalism, Patriarchy and Racism Exposed, Ann Ferguson, Review of Bhattacharya, Ed., Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression
- Walking the Tightrope: Latin America’s Pink Tide, Frederick B. Mills, Review of Ellner, Latin America’s Pink Tide: Breakthroughs and Shortcomings
- Music Review
- Painting The Passports Brown: Listening to Dylan During Covid-19, Jordy Cummings
- Book Reviews
- Theory In Revolutionary Times, Rafael Khachaturian, Review of Albo, Panitch, And Zuege, Eds., Class, Party, Revolution: A Socialist Register Reader
- The Farm Equipment Workers, James Young, Review of Gilpin, The Long Deep Grudge: A Story of Big Capital, Radical Labor, and Class War in the American Heartland
- Analyzing the Communist Manifesto, Phil Gasper, Review of Draper, The Adventures of the Communist Manifesto
- Dark Satanic Mills, Eric Blair, Review of Freeman, Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
- Exchange
- Surrogacy, Exploitation, and Commodification, Sara Lee, Alexandra Holmstrom-Smith
New Politics Vol. XVIII No. 1, Whole Number 69
In this issue:
From The Editors
From the Editors
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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 . . .
Opening Articles
The Movement for Black Lives Is Different This Time
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An assessment of the ongoing protests and developing movement following the murder of George Floyd.
The COVID Crisis
Pandemic, Depression, and Authoritarianism
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The United States confronts an uncertain future in the face of an unprecedented situation.
Coronavirus and the World Economy
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The coronavirus pandemic has both detonated a global economic crisis and exacerbated a preexisting crisis, economic and political, of the capitalist world economy.
A Global View of Coronavirus, Medical Policy, and Research
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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 . . .
Organizing After Bernie -- Activists Respond
Organizing After Bernie — Activists Respond
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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 . . .
Moving on from Bernie
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The effort of the media, the DNC, and the Dem establishment to bring Bernie’s campaign to a grinding halt highlights the limits of electoral politics.
The Struggle for Power Continues
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Takeaways from the Sanders campaign and recommendations on a possible road forward.
After Bernie, DSA Will Be Essential
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Bernie Sanders’ campaign for president has changed politics as we know it.
We’re Not Just Along for the Ride
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How socialists in organizations outside of the Sanders campaign operate and what this situation demands of us.
Articles
U.S. Imperialism and Africa’s “Perfect Storm”
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Public health crisis, financial crash, and the new scramble for Africa.
Anti-Imperialism and the Rise of Authoritarianism, “Left” and Right
Review Essays
Robbers, Takers, and Givers
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A review essay of Tithi Bhattacharya’s collection “Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression”
Walking the Tightrope: Latin America’s Pink Tide
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A review essay on Steve Ellner’s collection on the Latin American turn to the left.
Music Review
Reviews
Theory in Revolutionary Times
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A review of a collection of articles from the early years of The Socialist Register.
The Farm Equipment Workers
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A review of Toni Gilpin’s history of labor struggles in the American heartland.
Analyzing the Communist Manifesto
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The Communist Manifesto never seems to go out of style for very long.
Exchange
Surrogacy, Exploitation, and Commodification
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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.