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Lenin, state and revolution: an introduction
As part of our series commemorating 100 years since Lenin’s death, we repost Dragan Plavšić’s take on a classic text.
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Paul Burkett (PapaPatty)
An intellectual and scholar, Paul published many books, journal articles, notes, reviews, and book chapters in his field. He felt his most important books are Marx and Nature: A Red And Green Perspective (1999) and Marxism and Ecological Economics (2006). He was passionate about his work, Socialism, the planet, and justice.
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In one of last interviews, John Pilger calls for an “insurrection of banned knowledge”
Since his death on December 30, tributes have been pouring in for John Pilger, an Australian journalist who gave voice to the voiceless and had a talent for putting human tragedies into a political context.
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Ban the war criminals from King Day celebrations
Most Martin Luther King birthday celebrations are tawdry displays of political cynicism and cooptation. The people must recapture the day from war criminals and their Black misleadership puppets.
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Thoughts on Abolition
Since 2020, there has been a gradual realization about the limitations of various strategies, ideologies, and political approaches, particularly in the context of using “abolition” as a catch-all umbrella.
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Why I believe what I believe about the Chinese Revolution: The Second Newsletter (2024)
I have tried not only to provide some facts to guide our discussion but also to thread them into the theory of socialism that I believe is most attractive.
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Charter schools will desert and violate thousands in 2024
Currently, about 3.7 million students are enrolled in roughly 7,800 privately-operated charter schools across the country. The U.S. public education system, on the other hand, has been around for more than 150 years and educates about 45 million students in nearly 100,000 schools.
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Paul Burkett, rest in power
In memory of Paul Burkett, Marxist scholar and jazz musician, 1956-2024.
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In Xi Jinping’s China, is Chairman Mao back?
On the 130th anniversary of the founder of People’s China’s birth, BEN CHACKO asks whether media hype about Xi as a new Mao rings true – or whether the country’s trajectory has really changed that much.
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Aleksandr Buzgalin and his time
Dimitris Konstantakopoulos: ‘The last time I saw Aleksandr was last June, in the nice café where he often used to make his appointments, on the former Gorky Avenue (which the recent “Restoration” renamed Tverskaya, as if to assure us that Money is the enemy of Culture), near Pushkin Square and a little further away from the Mayakovski metro station.’
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Gramsci’s animality
Prison Notebooks sets the tone with “Animality and Industrialism,” Gramsci’s original work-in-progress header for the section he’d eventually label “Americanism and Fordism.”
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‘The Hitleryugend’ or ISIS Israel: The two Kooks who Nationalized Judaism
The phenomenon of religious Zionism originates in the teaching of two of the most respected Zionist rabbis, a father and son, belonging to the Kook family.
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The mess they made of 2023
Abroad and at home, ideology ruled the U.S.
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An education policy for colonizing minds
A pre-requisite for freedom in the third world therefore is to shake off this colonisation of the mind, and to seek truth beyond the distortions of imperialism.
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What do Marxists have to say about art?
Most Marxists would say that the value of a work of art such as a painting, or the pleasure they get from it—in its original or as a reproduction—is above all else an individual matter, not something that ‘experts’ (Marxist or otherwise) can or should pronounce upon.
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Foco feminism?: Rethinking the ethics of feminist anti-militarism
As Che argued, sovereignty is a precondition for the realisation of independence and self-actualisation. Revolutionary feminism is similarly an attempt to achieve emancipation for women as a social class as a precondition for their sovereignty.
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“Feed the people, eat the rich!”: Group wearing Jeff Bezos masks ransacks Whole Foods
On Friday, December 15th, “a “merry band of miscreants” entered a Whole Foods in NYC, lifted a bunch of groceries, and walked out in Jeff Bezos masks,” reported independent journalist Talia Jane on Twitter/X.
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NYT amplifies outrage over imaginary calls for genocide
University presidents are under fire from politicians and the media over what is being framed as their waffling over allowing antisemitic speech on their campuses.
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SYRIZA is falling apart after 9 more MPs leave the left-wing party
Νine lawmakers of left-wing SYRIZA announced on Thursday morning that they break way from Greece’s main opposition party seeking to form their own parliamentary group. Early aftenoon, also MEP Dimitris Papadimoulis announced his departure from the party.
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The dangerously appealing style of the Far Right: The Forty-Eighth Newsletter (2023)
Before he won Argentina’s presidential election on 19 November, Javier Milei circulated a video of himself in front of a series of white boards.