In this issue:
From The Editors
From The Editors
Donald Trump in his second term is a president like no other American chief executive. Dominating the Republican Party that controls Congress and with a compliant Supreme Court, he has as he promised unleashed political and economic chaos, shattering
Democracy versus Degeneration in the United States
A Referendum on Democracy? A Chance for a New Direction?
Dan La Botz analyzes the latest development of Trump’s authoritarian regime and prospects for resistance in the United States.
McCarthyism Then and Now
Historian Ellen Schrecker discusses how the repression against students and workers in higher education today are in many ways worse than McCarthyism.
The Name of the Beast
Ben Silverman analyzes Trump’s fascist tendencies and the danger of the Trump regime moving towards the level of historical Fascism.
Is Free Speech a Dangerous Idea?
Samuel Farber defends the concept of free speech from a left perspective, against progressive critics of free speech.
Rural Prisons and False Consciousness
Samuel Barney argues that prison building in rural United States is used as a way to incorporate the precarious rural working class into the state’s repressive apparatus.
Fighting Nativist Immigration Policy
On Friday, June 6, 2025, federal agents descended on four businesses in Los Angeles and arrested dozens of workers on suspicion of violation of U.S. immigration laws. In response, hundreds of people gathered around federal buildings in downtown Los Angeles
The Political Economy of Nativism
Bill Kelly argues that exploitation and deportation of Latin American immigrants have long been a feature of U.S. capitalism.
Imperialism Around the World
Cuba: The End of an Era?
Lisbeth Moya González analyzes the current crisis in Cuba, for which both the Cuban and the US governments are responsible.
Sudan: Liberal Peacebuilding and the Price of Impunity
Husam Mahjoub criticizes international complicity in the ineffective, elite-led peace processes in Sudan, and calls for justice rooted in accountability for perpetrators and material conditions for human dignity.
Anti-Imperialism without the Working Class
Siyavash Shahabi critiques campism as an abdication of class independence and a symptom of the weakness of independent working-class politics today.
The Silence of the State Kills
Matt Benson analyzes historic and ongoing dispossession of the Mapuche people’s land, and their resistance against the Chilean state.
Articles
Class Struggle of Our Own
In an interview, Daniel Gross discusses strategies for powerful rank-and-file unionism in the United States today.
Russia’s Political Prisoners and the People Who Speak for Them
Russia today holds more political prisoners than at any time since the post-Stalin thaw of the 1950s. Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian state has systematically prosecuted antiwar critics on charges ranging from “discrediting the
A History of the International Socialists
The Berkeley Independent Socialist Club
Thomas Harrison recounts history and an experience of the Independent Socialist Club in the 1960s Berkeley, which later became the International Socialists (IS) nationwide.
Breaking into Brown
Anne Mackie recounts history of UPSurge, a rank-and-file movement of UPS workers in the Teamsters in the 1970s, in which she actively participated.
review
An Organization of Organizers
Alan Wald reviews A Collective History of the International Socialists, praising its in-depth insights while calling for more critical perspectives.
Review Essays
review
AI as the Logic of Capitalist Domination
Frieda Afary recommends two critical works on AI, Emily Bender and Alex Hanna’s AI Con and Kate Crawford’s Atlas of AI.
review
An Orwellian Mockery of Critical Theory
Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? (or Pipers) is a neo-Stalinist hatchet job targeting the German intellectuals, most of them Jewish, who associated with the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research before, during, and in some cases after
review
The Bund: A Committed History
The rave reception for Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country is a breakthrough for Jewish radicals. After decades of Zionist hegemony within U.S. Jewish communities, including on the left, suddenly Crabapple’s avowedly, even fiercely anti-Zionist book is
Reviews
review
Doubling Down
David Finkel criticizes Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies’ book on the war in Ukraine, which minimizes the voices of left-wing Ukrainians and antiwar Russian dissidents, and obscures Putin’s annexationism as the cause of the war.
review
Teamsters for a Democratic Union?
Andrew Sernatinger reviews a new edition of the 1982 classic Teamster Rank and File, an in-depth study of the rank-and-file movement at Local 208 in Los Angeles, offering a prescient critique of the TDU’s electoralism.
review
Partition in South Asia
75 Years After Partition: India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh offers a timely, interdisciplinary intervention into the cultural memory, historiography, and ideological reproduction of the 1947 Partition of British India and the 1971 Liberation War of Bangladesh. Spanning cinema, literature, textbooks,
review
Media and Empire in Afghanistan
Farooq Sulehria reviews the new edited volume Propaganda, Communication and Empire, a critical analysis of media representation of western intervention in Afghanistan.
Letters
Women under Taliban Assault
I am writing from Afghanistan, where days end with fear and nights end with anxiety. We Afghan girls no longer know whether life should be called life or simply “survival.”
Every day upon awakening, I hope not to hear more bad
Every day upon awakening, I hope not to hear more bad
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