Left Debates
The Student Revolt for Palestine
The student revolt for Palestine in the United States is spreading throughout the world. It is essential that the student movement unites against repression and draws the masses into the fight for a free Palestine.
Jimena Vergara
May 6, 2024Left Voice Magazine for April 2024 — Labor Notes Edition!
In this issue, we delve into the state and future of the labor movement today. We take a look at the prospects for Palestinian liberation through the lens of Leon Trotsky’s theory of Permanent Revolution, and discuss the way that Amazon has created new conditions of exploitation and how workers across the world are fighting back.
Left Voice
April 20, 2024Palestinian Liberation and Permanent Revolution
The fight against Zionist oppression is at the center of international and domestic politics. The path forward is to fight for a free, socialist, workers’ Palestine, from the river to the sea, where Arabs and Jews can live in peace.
Jimena Vergara
April 19, 2024A Three-Way Split in Marx21 — Which Way Forward for the Revolutionary Left in Germany?
Marx21, the post-Trotskyist network inside Die Linke, has split into three different groups. How can revolutionary socialists move forward?
Nathaniel Flakin
January 13, 2024Means and Ends: A Debate on the Left over Hamas’s Strategy
Support for the self-determination of the Palestinian people does not mean the revolutionary Left should refrain from criticizing the program, strategy, and methods of Hamas.
Matías Maiello
November 14, 2023Notes on the International Situation
A Convulsive New Phase of the Crisis of Neoliberalism — A Document for the Left Voice Congress
Left Voice
October 1, 2023Debating the Path to the Party
Revolutionaries and Reformist Organizations — A Debate Between Jimena Vergara of Left Voice and Aaron Amaral of Tempest at the Socialism Conference in Chicago.
Jimena Vergara
October 1, 2023Trans Liberation and Socialist Revolution — A Debate with the IMT
Trotskyists should aim to be in the front lines of all struggles against oppression. This is a debate with Alan Woods's International Marxist Tendency (IMT) on how socialists should relate to the movement for queer and trans liberation.
Sasha Frost
July 29, 2023Not Syriza, Not Podemos, But a Working-Class Party Fighting for Socialism
What lessons can U.S. socialists draw from the experiences of Syriza, Podemos, and other broad left parties? Nathaniel Flakin and Jimena Vergara of Left Voice respond to Andrew Sernatinger of Tempest.
Nathaniel Flakin
April 18, 2023Understanding 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.
Jimena Vergara
March 16, 2023