socialist strategy

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.
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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.
Statue of Lenin by Slovak sculptor Emil Venkov, 1988. It is on display in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. PHOTO: Ivan Meljac

Democracy, socialism, Lenin

Far from saying “goodbye” to Lenin’s legacy, we should confront and renew it. Lenin and his comrades offer too much of value to do otherwise, writes Paul Le Blanc.
Lenin Constituent Assembly

Lenin, moral liberalism and the voluntarist premise

Leninism is not perfect nor should it be copied mechanically, but abandoning it for vague principles — as Dan La Botz proposes — leaves us without tools to confront the realities of power, contends Antony Teso.
Banksy Lenin

Lenin versus democracy: A reply to critics of ‘Goodbye to Lenin and Leninism’

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.
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Against the tribunal left: DSA, moralism and the problem of socialist discipline

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.
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Trade unions, mass organisations and the left: From historical necessity to reassessment and renewal

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