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BAR Book Forum: Charisse Burden-Stelly’s book, “Black Scare / Red Scare”
This week’s featured author is Charisse Burden-Stelly. Burden-Stelly is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Wayne State University. Her book is ‘Black Scare / Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States.’
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Three waves of historical fascism
Though much marxist theory has explored the recurrent cycles and patterns of historical capitalism, not enough attention has been given to the tendency of moments of politico-economic crisis to become an ideological contestation between fascism and communism in the context of a crisis of liberalism.
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Israeli doctors urge the bombing of Gaza hospitals
Dozens of Israeli doctors told the Israeli army that it must bomb Gaza’s hospitals, stating that “the residents of Gaza” have “brought their annihilation upon themselves” for allowing hospitals to become “terrorist nests.”
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Western Left and the U.S.-China contradiction
Significant segments of the non-Communist Western Left see the developing contradiction between the United States and China in terms of an inter-imperialist rivalry.
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Marx and Critical Social Ontology: Learning from the later Lukács feat. Michael J. Thompson
The purpose of Marxist theory is not only to diagnose the negative forces and effects of capitalist society; emphasis must also be placed on the need for social transformation that would enhance human progress at the social and individual level.
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Palestine: “Women and Children” and the Politics of Appeal
Mohammed El-Kurd is an award-winning poet, writer, journalist and organizing from Jerusalem, Occupied Palestine. He is the Palestinian correspondent for The Nation and a Civic Media Fellow at the University of Southern California. Mohammed will talk about the representation and misrepresentation of Palestinians in the U.S.
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How the International Monetary Fund continues to shrink the poorer Nations: The Forty-Third Newsletter (2023)
At Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, we continue to monitor the IMF’s impact on developing economies, including in our new dossier, How the International Monetary Fund Is Squeezing Pakistan (October 2023).
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The ONDP shivs Sarah Jama over opposition to genocide
The Ontario NDP is addicted to sucking.
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10 points about Massa’s victory in Argentina
In light of a pleasant surprise for those opposed to a far-right victory in Argentina, Manuel Bertoldi analyzes this latest success and what it means for the Argentine left.
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In Palestine, 50,000 women are due to give birth within next 14 days
According to the Palestinian health ministry in Gaza, 50,000 Gazan women are set to give to birth in Gaza within the next 14 days.
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Accelerated decay
Joy and suffering in the Left Party: Wagenknecht aims to found a new party
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How capitalism killed nutrition
Review of ‘Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?’ By Chris van Tulleken.
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Class Leaders and ‘Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism’
The basic aim of ‘Tipping Point for Advanced Capitalism: Class, Class Consciousness and Activism in the “Knowledge Economy”’ is to bring class back into thinking about capitalism and alternatives.
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The commune is a comprehensive reworking of social relations: A conversation with Chris Gilbert
A new book exploring the theory, practice and history of socialist commune building in Venezuela.
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Karl Marx’s “degrowth communism”?
A review of ‘Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism’, Kohei Saito (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
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The problem of Nazism in Ukraine
Canada’s House of Commons gave a standing ovation to Yaroslav Hunka, a member of the 14th Grenadier Division of the Waffen-SS (1st Galician Division), formed under the aegis of none other than Heinrich Himmler.
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Yaroslav Hunka, Politico and the rehabilitation of Nazi war crimes
The logic of the war in Ukraine requires the rehabilitation of the worst crimes of the Nazi regime.
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Slovakia election–a small but significant fracture in Europe’s subordination to the U.S.
The Slovak parliamentary elections [30 September] were won by the anti-war, pro-negotiations party Smer-SD DIRECTION–Slovak Social Democracy led by Robert Fico.
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‘Reform, Revolution, and Opportunism: Debates in the Second International, 1900–1910’ – book review
The debates between socialists in the Congresses of the Second International raised issues which remain of central importance to the left today, argues Chris Bambery.
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Liberal alliances with Nazis produce inevitable blowback
NaziGate highlights Canadian ties to far-right Ukrainian nationalism, support for NATO and a long history of conflict with Russia.