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5 Articles You Might Have Missed in August on Left Voice

We publish a lot of articles. It’s easy to miss an important one. Here, we present some of our favorite articles from the month of August that you might have missed. Enjoy!

Left Voice

September 5, 2019
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We publish a lot of articles. It’s easy to miss an important one. Here, we present some of our favorite articles from the month of August that you might have missed. Enjoy!

A Revolutionary Perspective for Puerto Rico

by Jimena Vergara 

The resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosselló marked a victory for Puerto Rico’s popular uprising. Yet the Fiscal Control Board and the colonial regime remain. How can the island throw off the yoke of U.S. imperialism? What role could a Constituent Assembly play?

From Queer Struggle to Revolution

by Roberto Jara

In the last 35 years of LGBTQ+ struggle, we have won more rights. But we have also seen greater institutionalization, co-optation, fragmentation and depoliticization of the LGBTQ+ movement. How can we revolutionize the queer struggle?

 

Abolishing ICE is Not Enough. 5 Radical Demands to Address the Immigration Crisis

by Left Voice and Movimiento de los Trabajadores Socialistas (MTS)

While we need to fight tooth and nail to abolish ICE, this is not enough. Below we offer five urgent demands that all socialists should put forward to address the immigration crisis unfolding on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Six Things We Can Learn from the Socialist Left in Argentina

by Nathaniel Flakin

The Workers Left Front–Unity, a Trotskyist electoral coalition, got 700,000 votes on Sunday’s primary elections. Can this be a model for the left in other countries?

A Combined Struggle: Trotsky Explains Why We Need to Fight Imperialism in Mexico and in the U.S.

by Madeleine Freeman

On the anniversary of Trotsky’s death, we reexamine his writings from the final period of his life, which he spent in exile in Mexico. His observations about socialist strategy in semi-colonial countries and his conceptualization of the role that workers in imperialist countries play in the fight against imperialism have special relevance to socialists fighting against U.S. imperialism today.

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Left Voice Magazine: Special Issue on Our Congress

In July, Left Voice held its first congress. As part of this special issue of our magazine, we are publishing two documents that formed the basis of the discussions, as well as an substantive and rousing greeting from Leticia Parks, a Black revolutionary socialist from Brazil. We also include an appeal for Climate Leninism, a debate with Tempest, and a talk about women’s liberation in revolutionary Russia.

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Debating the Path to the Party

Revolutionaries and Reformist Organizations — A Debate Between Jimena Vergara of Left Voice and Aaron Amaral of Tempest at the Socialism Conference in Chicago.

Jimena Vergara

October 1, 2023

For Climate Leninism!

Andreas Malm has called for “ecological Leninism” to fight the climate emergency. Good. But above all, Leninism means smashing the capitalist state.

Nathaniel Flakin

October 1, 2023

Toward a Revolutionary Socialist Network

In this article Warren Montag and Joseph Serrano respond to our call for a network for a working-class party for socialism. 

Warren Montag

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