(Video) The genocidal returns of lesser evilism: The US presidential elections and left strategy
brian bean, Kristen Godfrey, and Natalia Tylim take up the question of the 2024 elections as a strategic issue for the organized socialist left and not simply as a question about how an individual may choose to vote in an increasingly undemocratic election
Palestine: From shifting the discourse to changing US policy
Max Elbaum — The movement opposing Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza has transformed this country’s conversation about Palestine. This achievement opens the path to forcing a change in US policy and to putting internationalism at the center of the progressive movement’s agenda.
Against authoritarianism and neoliberalism in Venezuela: A view from the critical left
In this conversation, Edgardo Lander seeks to move beyond the dogmatic, schematic and sectarian views that characterise much of the international flow of information and analysis on Venezuela.
Michael Pröbsting — The rapid process of capitalist development in China and its rise as an imperialist power is one of the most important questions for Marxists today.
Imperialism: Now we have some numbers
Renfrey Clarke — In the view of Marxists, the rift that divides the world is a direct result of imperialism, whose core is always material and economic.
British Labour’s winter fuel allowance: Ecosocialism versus ageism, austerity and poverty
Liz Lawrence explores the direction of the Labour government and what remains of the Labour Left. She also discusses pensioners’ poverty and resistance, and how ecosocialists should respond.
Progressive and left voices in Bangladesh give their views on the recent mass upsurge and assessment and expectations of the interim administration in place.
Ammar Ali Jan (People’s Rights Party, HKP): ‘You have to embed yourself in the movement of history’
Ammar Ali Jan discusses the challenges of building a new workers’ party in Pakistan — and the Haqooq-e-Khalq Party's recent victories for Lahore’s most vulnerable workers.
1843-1844: Marx’s Feuerbachian phase
Jason Devine — If Marx did not break with idealism thanks to Feuerbach, then the following questions arise: did Feuerbach actually influence Marx, and, if so, how?
The end of Venezuela’s Bolivarian process? An interview with community activist Gerardo Rojas
Gerardo Rojas discusses the July 28 presidential election, the current state of community organising in the country and why we might be witnessing the Maduro government’s final break with the Bolivarian process.
From “Returning to Europe” to “Occupying Brussels”
Áron Rossman-Kiss — The EU was crucial to Viktor Orbán’s rise — now, he wants to remake it in his own image.
Loren Balhorn — For the first time since the defeat of the Third Reich, a far-right party has won a state-wide election, indicating a profound level of alienation vis-à-vis the political establishment among a wide swathe of the electorate.