Responding to his critics, Dan La Botz argues that Lenin’s decisions not only proved incapable of defending and advancing a democratic socialist revolution but contributed to the revolution’s failure.

Fights inside the Democratic Socialists of America over “cancel culture,” “political correctness” and “call-out culture” are not side dramas. They are symptoms of a deeper organisational sickness, argues Anthony Teso.

The past decades have witnessed fundamental transformations in the way people think and organise, which the left cannot afford to ignore, writes Rezgar Akrawi.

‘Still Steadfast’ examines the push-and-pull between pro-Palestine activists and authorities attempting to silence them. It is part of Transformative Justice Collective’s efforts to document the extent of authoritarian control in Singapore.

Eric Toussaint looks at the great public debate on the nature of the economy that occurred after the 1959 Cuban revolution, involving Ernesto Che Guevara, Alberto Mora, Ernest Mandel, and Charles Bettelheim.

Zbigniew Marcin Kowalewski and Adrianna Nowak reconstruct the long Cuban struggle to preserve revolutionary autonomy within an unequal alliance with the Soviet Union.

The expansion of US sanctions against Cuba since 2017 have likely been the primary cause for a major rise in infant mortality in Cuba, writes Dan Beeton.

Domingo Pérez Valenzuela discusses the resurgence of Chilean trade unionism, strengths and limitations of its strike model, and what lessons the country’s recent labour struggles offer for labour renewal internationally.

Elías Jaua explains Trump’s plan for Venezuela, and how the people have responded. Jaua also discusses the Maduro government, the United Socialist Party of Venezuela, the communes and solidarity with Venezuela.

The problem facing the left is not the absence of class antagonism but the absence of forces capable of organising it. If we fail to confront the question of political form, mobilisation will continue to substitute for class, writes Sushovan Dhar.

Britain’s Labour government is in turmoil. Phil Hearse looks beyond media scandals such as the Mandelson-Epstein revelations, to lay out what is really behind the crisis.

The issue is not whether the Democratic Socialists of America matters — it clearly does, writes Anthony Teso. The question is can it evolve beyond a project aimed at moving the Democratic Party to the left within the existing political system.