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Introduction by Richard Fidler
By Leigh Phillips & Michal Rozwor
United States: Federal armed forces out of our cities! No occupation of our streets!
By Alliance for Global Justice
The Comintern’s Second Congress: A Centennial Introduction
By John Riddell
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By Marty Hart-Landsberg
Popular protagonism in Venezuela’s transition to socialism: A conversation with Michael Lebowitz
By Cira Pascual Marquina
July 12, 2020 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Venezuela Analysis — Michael Lebowitz is a professor of political economy, researcher, and prolific writer. He is the author of Beyond Capital: Marx's Political Economy of the Working Class (1992), The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now (2015), and the upcoming Between Capitalism and Community (2021). From 2006 to 2011, Lebowitz was Development Director in the Program in Transformative Practice and Human Development at the Centro Internacional Miranda, in Caracas. In this interview, he explores the importance of participation and democracy in the construction of socialism, while reflecting on the internal contradictions of the Bolivarian Process.
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