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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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Neither NATO Nor Putin: An Anti-war Program for an Anti-war Protest

The following is a flier that Left Voice distributed at the March 18 rally in DC with the anti-war program we believe we must all take up.

Left Voice

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Understanding the Global Context of the Ukrainian Conflict: A Response to Our Critics

The 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the massive rearmament of Europe that followed mark a new stage in a growing conflict that has become a proxy war between the imperialist states of the US and NATO on one side, and an emerging alliance between Russia and China on the other. While some on the Left see this new pole of Russia and China as a check against US imperialism, neither country is anti-imperialist, and neither has anything progressive to offer working people.

Jimena Vergara

March 16, 2023

Pro-NATO Positions Split a Trotskyist Tendency

The war in Ukraine has led to intense debates on the international socialist Left. In November, the Socialist Labor Party (SEP) of Turkey announced it was breaking with the Socialist Workers Movement (MST) of Argentina, in a serious blow to their common project, the International Socialist League (ISL-LIS). What can we learn from this split?

Nathaniel Flakin

March 10, 2023

Dossier: One Year of a Reactionary War in Ukraine

With the aim of developing an international perspective for working class intervention against the reactionary war in Ukraine, we publish this dossier. These articles engage with some of the key debates the war has opened on the Left, analysis on how the geopolitical crisis is developing, and the positions of our international tendency: the Trotskyist Fraction - Fourth International.

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