Guest Posts
Gentrification and Capital’s Co-Option of American Cities
In ‘How to Kill A City’ Peter Moskowitz examines the process of gentrification as it has transformed New Orleans, Detroit, San Francisco, and New York.
Emma Vignola
October 11, 2017French President Passes Labor Reform Despite Wide Opposition
Today the French President signed executive orders that will profoundly affect the life of millions of workers. Without blinking an eye, Emmanuel Macron is profoundly transforming labor legislation for the benefit of the very few members of his class.
Marianne Madoré
September 22, 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, 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, 2017Power Cuts in the Gaza Strip, a Humanitarian Crisis
As the Gaza Strip moves even more rapidly than predicted toward becoming uninhabitable, its two million residents face an escalating humanitarian crisis.
Mira Craig-Morse
July 14, 2017Assata Shakur, Always Welcome
The legacies of Assata Shakur and the Black Liberation Army are revisited in university and city struggles to overthrow racial capitalism.
Conor Tomás Reed
July 11, 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, 2017ARGENTINA: Action in Solidarity with PepsiCo Workers
PepsiCo workers, students, and other sectors of the working class blocked a road in the center of Buenos Aires as part of the fight against the firing 600 PepsiCo workers.
Mira Craig-Morse
July 5, 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, 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, 2017