Ideas & Debates
Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges Are Wrong – Antifa and Nazis Are Not the Same
Following the murder of Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Donald Trump enraged half of the US population once again by blaming both sides (Nazis and anti-Nazis) for the reckless and deliberate killing of the peaceful protester. A few days after condemning the “violence and bigotry on many sides”, he asserted that “there was a group on […]
Isaac Russo
September 2, 2017Cop Organizers Aren’t Comrades
A police organizer was voted to the leadership of the DSA. What is the nature of the police and what should the position of socialists be?
Julia Wallace
August 30, 2017Testament of Leon Trotsky
On August 20, 1940, an assassin sent by Stalin murdered Leon Trotsky. Yet the ideas of the Russian revolutionary remain relevant 77 years after his death. Left Voice republishes the testament of the founder of the Red Army as a tribute.
Leon Trotsky
August 20, 2017Discipline, Time and Surplus Value in the Gig Economy
Foucault’s Discipline and Punish provides a valuable insight into the scientific arrangement of space and time in different settings.
Juan Cruz Ferre
August 18, 2017A Left Rooted in the Working Class – Interview with Kim Moody
In an interview with Left Voice - InFocus, labor scholar and socialist activist Kim Moody speaks about the changing nature of the production process and the challenges for the left to build militant rank-and-file organizations in key points of production.
Kim Moody
August 3, 2017The Intersections of Anti Blackness and Anti Communism
Left Voice presents an interview with Charisse Burden Stelly, professor of Africana studies on Black Radical politics.
Left Voice
August 1, 2017Deliver Us to the Lesser Evil: How Social Movements Bury Themselves in the Democratic Party
The Democratic Party has often been called “the graveyard of social movements,” and more often than not the social struggles in the United States end their useful lives digging their own graves in the DP, the alternative party of the capitalists.
Hart Eagleburger
July 28, 2017Let’s Build an International Revolutionary Movement
The return of imperialist nationalism has made the development of proletarian internationalism and anti-imperialism increasingly urgent.
Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International
July 21, 2017Marx’s Capital, 150 Years Later
British economist Michael Roberts takes a look at the implications of Karl Marx's major work, 150 years after its first edition.
Michael Roberts
July 19, 2017From Social Democracy to World War
In his NYT op-ed, Jacobin's Bhaskar Sunkara makes a key omission-- ignoring the important experience of workers' democracy created by the soviets and the Left Opposition's struggle against Stalinism, led by Leon Trotsky. It is these omissions which allow him to equate social democracy with a real democracy for the working class.
Jimena Vergara
July 17, 2017