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Ideas & Debates

Cop 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, 2017

Testament 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, 2017

Discipline, 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, 2017

A 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, 2017

The 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, 2017

Deliver 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, 2017

Let’s Build an International Revolutionary Movement

The return of imperialist nationalism has made the development of proletarian internationalism and anti-imperialism increasingly urgent.

Marx’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, 2017

From 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