•  | Georg Lukács | MR Online

    Georg Lukács: the final interview

    We publish here the text of one of the last interviews with Georges Lukács, given to Hungarian television. The interview was prepared and conducted by András Kovács. Lukács talks about his youth and the influence Lenin had on his own development as a revolutionary activist.

  •  | Forget Eco Modernism | MR Online

    Forget eco-modernism

    Recent years have seen renewed debate on climate strategy on the left. Here, Kai Heron responds to the arguments of the proponents of a left ecomodernism, and argues that it risks reactionary political consequences.

  •  | Strip mined land being recontoured by coal companies Morristown Ohio 1974 Photo Erik Calonius via Wikimedia Commons | MR Online

    In defence of Metabolic Rift Theory

    One Marxist line of inquiry into environmental problems has outshone all others in creativity and productivity: the theory of the metabolic rift.

  •  | William Morris | MR Online

    William Morris’s anti-imperialism

    William Morris is today remembered mainly for his designs. But, during his life he was one a prolific political journalist and socialist activist. Here, Peter Halton argues for the enduring relevance of his anti-imperialist writings.

  •  | A Matter of Life and Death What war and the pandemic have in common | MR Online

    A matter of life and death: What war and the pandemic have in common

    Patrick Cockburn examines the threads between the pandemic and the media’s coverage of age of endless war.

  •  | Jean Paul Sartre | MR Online

    Happy Birthday: Critique of Dialectical Reason!

    On the 60th anniversary of Jean-Paul Sartre’s key text on Marxism, Robert Boncardo shows us why it is still relevant, and urgently needed, today.

  •  | Karl Marx sticker on wall | MR Online

    Teaching Marx in a pandemic

    Barnaby Raine writes to mark the launch of a new class on Marx and his writing, as part of The Brooklyn Institute summer season

  •  | Read Rosa | MR Online

    “Absolute freedom of critique and discussion lies at the heart of the interests of the workers’ movement, and it must be pursued at all costs.”

    On Rosa Luxemburg’s birthday, we present an extract from her 1906 essay “Critique in the Workers’ Movement,” available in English for the first time.

  •  | Grévolution  first round of a general strike | MR Online

    ‘Grévolution’: first round of a general strike

    Since the middle of December, France has been gripped by a wave of large scale strikes. In this article the French collective Plateforme d’Enquêtes Militantes analyses the composition of the strikes, and the potential for its continued escalation.

  •  | Fossil Capital | MR Online

    It is time to try out an “ecological Leninism” – Interview with Andreas Malm

    Andreas Malm interviewed about Marxist approaches to the climate movement.

  •  | Dentention camps | MR Online

    Detention camps are concentration camps

    In June it was finally settled, the short-term detention centers run by the U.S. Border Patrol were—quite technically—concentration camps. While they are not the extermination camps of the Holocaust, the rounding up and mass incarceration of people who haven’t seen a judge fits the definition exactly, according to expert Andrea Pitzer. The legal definition of concentration camps are “places of forced relocation of civilians into detention on the basis of group identity.”

  •  | Frantz Fanon Against Facebook How to Decolonize Your Digital Mind | MR Online

    Frantz Fanon against Facebook: how to decolonize your digital-mind

    From the Algeria to algorithms, Lizzie O’Shea argues that Frantz Fanon’s ideas have much to offer us as we seek to understand, and resist, some of the most profound challenges of living in the digital age.

  •  | Capitalist Democratic State | MR Online

    Seven theses on the Capitalist Democratic State

    What is the capitalist democratic state and how should it be confronted? This question has bedevilled the left for generations. On the one hand, a social democratic conception of the state as a neutral institution that needs to be occupied and captured by bureaucrats with the right ideas has lead to experiments in socialist governance that have failed to overcome the private power of capitalists and turned toward neoliberal reversals

  •  | Hexenverbrennung zu Dernburg im Jahre 1555 zeitgenˆssischer Stich Der Hexenwahn in Europa erreichte vor 400 Jahren einen traurigen Hˆhepunkt Ganze Dorfgemeinschaften zerfielen auf dem Scheiterhaufen bestialische Foltern zur Erzwingung von Gestndnissen gerieten zur Kunstform und die Erdrosselung vor dem Tod galt noch als eine grofle Gnade Zu dpa lhe und lrs 001 vom 31101995 | MR Online

    Gossip girls

    In her landmark Caliban and the Witch, Marxist scholar Silvia Federici argues that witch hunts were an organized campaign of mass murder of women–particularly low-class women, midwives, or “wise women”–who defied the increasing implementation of a patriarchal, authoritarian order under a rapidly developing capitalist state.

  •  | Rosa Luxemburg | MR Online

    On January 15, 1919: Rosa Luxemburg was murdered

    The great revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg was murdered by Freikorp in Berlin, and her body thrown into the Landwehr Canal on this day in 1919.