socialist strategy

Alberto Garzon, a few years ago, waving to President Sánchez in Congress

A manual for how the left can fail to agree

Alberto Garzón looks at why parties that share 90% of a programme still can’t share a ticket, and why the problem starts with all of us.
Amazon workers

We’ll take those odds

Sam Gindin on the contemporary crisis of legitimacy, the importance of revitalizing organized labor, and the generation-defining project of organizing Amazon.
Jeyakumar Devaraj

Malaysia: Class, inequality and the left’s transitional program

Jeyakumar Devaraj argues that Malaysia has been economically recolonised and the answer lies in a 20–30 year transitional program, built from the ground up and on the mass line model, which focuses on regional South-South solidarity.
Foto: Triada Colectivo. @colectivo.triada

Defeating Milei: Left strategy in times of reaction

A socialist policy that merely defines or denounces the far right falls short of the task, writes Martín Mosquera.
Cockroach protests

The Cockroaches: A new insecure class in struggle

The cockroach movement’s great structural strength was also its great vulnerability, contends Sankha Subhra Biswas.
Greens unionists

Working class stratification, education and politics in Australia

Nick Fredman and Jonathan Strauss examine new mass left-wing formations, such as the Australian Greens, and explore the political effects of the changing nature of education under late capitalism.
Lenin and clock

Lenin and the politics of broken time

Far more than a form of discipline and centralisation, Lenin’s guiding idea targets what he calls the “disorganising” confusion between party and class, contends Daniel Bensaïd.
Zohran Mamdani

Trumpism, Mamdani and the revolutionary party we need

Paul Le Blanc responds to criticism of his recent text on the situation in the United States, “Defining Trumpism, defeating Trump”.
Myriam Bregman

Claudio Katz: ‘The Argentine left must aim to govern with a strategy for power’

Claudio Katz assesses socialist MP Myriam Bregman’s newfound prominence in Argentine politics and some of the debates this has provoked on the left.
GL covers anti-Hanson

What the anti-Hanson movement of the 1990s achieved — and what it didn’t

A movement declared victorious while the politics it was fighting are being institutionalised is not a movement that won, argues Lisbeth Latham.
No Kings protest

Defining Trumpism, defeating Trump

Paul Le Blanc looks at the underlying ideology and social forces behind the Trump regime, and explores the strengths and limitations of the growing anti-Trump resistance.
Boris Kagarlitsky graphic spichka

1968–73: Humanity’s lost opportunity

The 1973 coup in Chile was of more than merely Latin American significance. Boris Kagarlitsky argues it marked the end of a brief but brilliant period of attempts at radical transformation globally.