Ideas & Debates
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, 2017Carrying the Torch: Revolutionary Marxism in the Neoliberal Era
A leader of the Partido de Trabajadores Socialistas (PTS) talks about the theoretical and strategic basis for the actions of the PTS in the struggle for worker control at Zanon.
Christian Castillo
July 14, 2017Clara Zetkin: A Great Organizer of Socialists, Women Workers
A brief history of the life of socialist revolutionary, Clara Zetkin.
Andrea D'Atri
July 12, 2017Socialism’s Future Can’t Be Its Failures
Bhaskar Sunkara's recent New York Times piece is a dangerous misremembering of socialist history that tries to make socialism safe for liberals. To avoid repeating the failures of the 20th century, we have to take an honest look at our own defeats.
Evan McLaughlin
July 6, 2017The Oath: The Story of the Jewish Bund
In the early twentieth century, the largest socialist organization in Russia was the Jewish Bund, numbering tens of thousands, who were willing to fight, arms in hand, for the liberation of Jews. While the Bund fostered the national identity and dignity of Russian Jews, they were also committed Marxists, who viewed Jewish emancipation as intimately linked to a worldwide socialist revolution.
Doug Enaa Greene
July 3, 2017Towards a New Phase in the Global Scenario
Although Trump has not been able to push forward key aspect of his program, he still demonstrates a significant change in global politics.
Trotskyist Fraction – Fourth International
July 3, 2017Who’s Afraid of the Anthropocene?
Reports of severe weather events and the dwindling of endangered species, in the shadow of world politics, have conjured a recent, now popular neologism – the Anthropocene.
Bee Vang
July 2, 2017A Resistance Movement for the Planet – Full Interview
Climate change is out of control. It is already too late to avoid soaring temperatures, scarce water, and extreme weather. But the financial structure of capitalism is tied to fossil fuels. Market-based solutions are ineffectual. John Bellamy Foster, a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and the editor of Monthly Review, speaks about the kind of program necessary to stop this catastrophe.
John Bellamy Foster
July 2, 2017Why Socialists Have Always Fought for Open Borders
In what President Trump has hailed as a "clear victory", the Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for a limited version of Trump's de facto travel ban on Muslims.
Nathaniel Flakin
June 27, 2017Venezuela: The Pope, Trump, and the Bourgeois Press United Against Maduro
The bourgeois press is reporting on the ongoing crisis in Venezuela from the point of view of the neoliberal opposition. Behind the smoke screen of "democracy", they are fighting for a new cycle of imperialist subjugation.
Robert Samstag
June 14, 2017