Left Voice Magazine #2: Women on the Front Lines

Left Voice’s second print edition, “Women on the Front Lines,” is now available for purchase. The magazine was printed in a worker-controlled factory in Argentina. These factories are facing extreme economic hardship due to President Macri’s austerity measures. For every magazine sell, Left Voice will donate a dollar to a factory under worker control.

You can can buy the magazine in digital (pdf) or print. You can also subscribe to this magazine and the next two print editions for a reduced price. All subscribers will have access to the previous print edition online.

Editorial
The Comeback

Trump and the New Nationalist Era
Robert Belano

The DSA in the Democratic Party Labyrinth
Tracy Kwon & Jimena Vergara

Deliver Us to the Lesser Evil
Jack Rusk & Hart Eagleburger

The Party We Need: A Revolutionary Socialist Party
Juan Cruz Ferre

Dossier

Our Duty to Win: Strategy and Anti-Capitalist Feminism
Tatiana Cozzarelli

March 8: When the Earth Shook
Andrea D’Atri & Celeste Murillo

A Resistance Movement for the Planet
John Bellamy Foster

Marxism and Military Strategy
Emilio Albamonte & Matias Maiello

Why Socialists Have Always Fought for Open Borders. A Debate with Socialist Alternative
Wladek Flakin

Class, Party and Leadership: Lessons from the Spanish Revolution
Santiago Lupe

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

Mexico’s New Working Class
Jimena Vergara

Left Voice Magazine

Understanding the Global Context of the Ukrainian Conflict: A Response to Our Critics

The 2022 invasion of Ukraine and the massive rearmament of Europe that followed mark a new stage in a growing conflict that has become a proxy war between the imperialist states of the US and NATO on one side, and an emerging alliance between Russia and China on the other. While some on the Left see this new pole of Russia and China as a check against US imperialism, neither country is anti-imperialist, and neither has anything progressive to offer working people.

Pro-NATO Positions Split a Trotskyist Tendency

The war in Ukraine has led to intense debates on the international socialist Left. In November, the Socialist Labor Party (SEP) of Turkey announced it was breaking with the Socialist Workers Movement (MST) of Argentina, in a serious blow to their common project, the International Socialist League (ISL-LIS). What can we learn from this split?

Dossier: One Year of a Reactionary War in Ukraine

With the aim of developing an international perspective for working class intervention against the reactionary war in Ukraine, we publish this dossier. These articles engage with some of the key debates the war has opened on the Left, analysis on how the geopolitical crisis is developing, and the positions of our international tendency: the Trotskyist Fraction - Fourth International.

Despite Threats of Arrest, Refinery Workers in France Refuse to Break Strike

As energy strikes continue, France is faced with a kerosene shortage that’s creating an urgent situation at the country’s airports. With capitalist profits on the line, the government has attempted to force Normandy refinery workers back to work through an anti-strike legal weapon called requisitions. In their first victory, refinery workers forced the police to withdraw in an incredible demonstration of solidarity.

Battle of the Pensions: Toward a Pre-Revolutionary Moment in France

President Macron's use of article 49.3 to push through an unpopular pension reform bill has opened up an enormous political crisis that has changed the character of the mobilizations against the French government. We are entering a "pre-revolutionary moment" that can change the balance of power between the classes in France.

Ideas & Debates