The Thought of Walter Rodney: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Why are African countries “underdeveloped”? And how did the imperialist plunder of the continent begin? Was slavery a product of racism?

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Left Voice at Left Forum

Left Voice will be presenting at three panels at Left Forum this weekend. We will also have a table. Hope to see you there!

Open Letter to the Trotskyist Fraction

Members of the International Revolutionary Fraction recently broke with PCL (Workers Communist Party) in Italy. Here is an open letter they wrote to the Trotkyist Fraction, an international that includes the PTS of Argentina (Party of Socialist Workers), MTS of Mexico (Movement of Socialist Workers), PTR of Chile (Party of Revolutionary Workers), CCR (Revolutionary Communist Current) of France among others.

A Race Towards the Abyss: Labor and Capital Competition in a Globalized Market

The internationalization of production has redefined the terms of global competition. Global Value Chains perpetuate the North-South divide and create a unified global labor market.

Hired to Kill: Why Cops Murder with Impunity

On April 29, police officer Roy Oliver shot and killed 15-year-old Jordan Edwards with an AR-15 rifle in Balch Springs, a suburb in Dallas County.

The Party We Need: A Revolutionary Socialist Party

We are living in turbulent times. President Trump and the rise of the alt-right are not the only news. Thousands of people have become politically active in the past year, galvanized by the Bernie Sanders campaign and now joining organizations on the left, such as the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the International Socialist Organization, or Socialist Alternative.

A Marxist Critique of John Dewey: The Limits of Progressive Education

John Dewey’s Progressive Education is the centerpiece of the field of educational studies, forming the basis for writers like Paulo Freire. However, Dewey does not see that modern teacher centered schooling prepares students for alienated labor and that the primary enemy of child centered learning is capitalism itself.

The Trotskyists’ Struggle Against Nazism in World War II

Today is the 72nd anniversary of V Day – the victory of the Allies in World War II. But the war wasn't fought between fascism and democracy. It was a war between imperialist powers for the redivision of the world. Trotskyists fought in many countries for the war to end with socialist revolution.