Ideas & Debates
Turkey’s Fragile Bonapartism
Turkey may hold a referendum on the transition to an authoritarian presidential system as soon as late March; however, Erdoğan’s Bonapartist shift does not herald stability for the ruling class, nor a solution to the crisis of neoliberalism.
Barış Yıldırım
January 6, 2017On Internationalism: A Response to the Partido Obrero
Claudia Cinatti of the PTS engages Pablo Heller’s arguments, published in the Partido Obrero press following the Trotskyist Fraction’s Tenth International Conference. The following is a discussion on Gramsci’s concept of ‘organic crisis,’ the concept of revolutionary internationalism, and what it looks like in practice.
Claudia Cinatti
January 2, 2017Bring BLM Back to the Streets: A Critique of the M4BL Platform
Donald Trump’s victory demands our vigilance and readiness to fight. The urgency for a united front of resistance and mobilizations to defend against rightwing attacks has become clearer than ever. However, the Movement 4 Black Lives platform seems to point in the opposite direction.
Juan Cruz Ferre
December 30, 2016The Working Class, the Left, and Right-Wing Populism
The election of Donald Trump and the rise of the far right in Europe have rekindled the much-needed debate about the left’s relationship with the working class.
Diego Lotito
December 20, 2016The Opportunity of the Present Moment
Trump's ascension to power is weeks away. Left Voice presents a series by guest contributors on the current political conjuncture, the left, and prospects for party-building in the United States.
Hart Eagleburger
December 19, 2016Trump, Racism and the Working Class
Racism among workers cannot be condoned or concealed. Working class unity begins by embracing the demands of the most oppressed.
Juan Cruz Ferre
December 16, 2016Mike Davis: Trump, Pat Buchanan and…Zombies
This article was originally published in Spanish in Ideas de Izquierda soon after the elections. I finally think I’ve understood why we’re so obsessed with zombies. The discarded shroud, the rustling in the weeds, the vaporous apparitions seen from Pocatello to Lake Wobegone, the ghost army of admirers…. we were forewarned that he was back […]
Mike Davis
December 10, 2016The Robotics Revolution
The intimate story between productivity and investment. Clues to overcome technological optimists and pessimists. There are many theories to explain the phenomenon of the century: profit versus expected return.
Paula Bach
December 6, 2016What Would a World Without Bosses Be Like?
Way back in 2003, I visited a factory in the dusty steppes of Patagonia in Argentina. The Zanon Factory produces ceramic tiles.
Nathaniel Flakin
December 6, 2016At the Source of Eastern Europe’s Bureaucratic Governments : the Degeneration of the Soviet Union
On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution, Left Voice in collaboration with Révolution Permanente, will publish a series of articles on the different aspects of one of the most heroic struggles of the working class in the 20th century.
Philippe Alcoy
December 5, 2016