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Unexpected result of French election bars a neofascist victory, constituting a moral as well as a political victory for the Left
As French parliamentary elections pushed the leftist New Popular Front into first place, a pleasant sort of shock greeted revolutionary and progressive-minded people in France and around the world who had feared the triumph of the neofascist National Rally party.
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French strikes and popular mobilizations continue, contesting not only retirement rollback, but also police brutality and authoritarian politics
Since January, more-or-less weekly mass labor mobilizations have continued against a new law that would increase the retirement age from 62 to 64, even after it was rammed through without a vote on March 16.
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“When all you have is a hammer…”: why Agamben’s ideas were bound to lead to this
He has founded an intellectual group opposed to the restrictions, public health measures, vaccination requirements and other actions taken by public officials to combat the spread of the virus and its lethality.
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Lilia D. Monzó’s “A Revolutionary Subject: Pedagogy of Women of Color and Indigeneity”
A Book review symposium on Lilia D. Monzó’s “A Revolutionary Subject: Pedagogy of Women of Color and Indigeneity” (2019, Peter Lang Publishing) by Kitonga, Macrine, Magill, and Rodriguez — Editors
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Jacindamania and the Aotearoa New Zealand elections of 2020: Hopes and potentialities
The New Zealand elections as a gain and as a limitation for the left — Editors.
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Millions in France strike against austerity
France’s mass strikes have mobilized millions, persisting into a sixth day, in an attempt to forestall severe cuts to the social gains of the working class.
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Marx, socialism, and ecology
Marx’s thought with regard to ecology has been neglected for a long time or has been misunderstood, both within and outside Marxism. Saito shows that Marx’s concern with the relation between humankind and nature is already present at an early stage of his thinking.
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Eleanor Marx: the Jewess of Jew’s walk
Eleanor Marx changed the world. Foremother of socialist-feminism, trade unionist, internationalist, her father’s first biographer and editor of his key works, she had left a colossal heritage in many spheres of life.