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Try me for treason
Try Me for Treason; Anti-war Protesters’ Speeches in the Russian Courts is a film featuring excerpts from four speeches by Bohdan Ziza, Darya Kozyreva, Igor Paskar and Andrei Trofimov.
Childhood and Marxism
Kirstin Roberts shows how capitalism renders children as incomplete victims or threats in the context of the capitalist nuclear family–not as beings with personhood and rights. These images are rooted in the capitalist economy and ideologies of the family that buttress it.
The smoke is at our door
Julia Corrado reflects on the impacts of climate change and the Canadian wildfires, arguing that environmental disaster requires more than the market-based solutions on offer.
Building an anti-fascist city
Aaron Niederman talked to activists from Marx21 who helped organize a July 4 mass anti-fascist demonstration in Erfurt, Germany.
The promise of workers’ power
Debates among the International Socialists in 1976–77 offer lessons for socialists today—article by Bill Roberts.
Can shattering capitalist economic theory lead to revolution?
Tempest’s Mel Bienenfeld reviews Clara Mattei’s Escape from Capitalism.
Recent articles
Party Time? Setting the record straight
Giselle Gerolami responds to Charlie Post on the strengths and weaknesses of left organization, including Solidarity, of which she is a member.
Put workers and patients first!
Workers at the University of Vermont Medical Center fight for a fair contract as the possibility of a strike looms.
Trump’s ethnonationalist immigration agenda
Avery Wear argues that Trump’s second-term immigration agenda marks a historical shift from labor management to ethnonationalism, demanding a new left strategy.
Revolutionary Futures
Promise Li delivers a talk at Occidental College on “reform vs. revolution” that describes how Marxism provides a framework for students and individuals to understand their entry into the workforce as part of a positive political project.
Frustration and anger on Syria’s streets
Joseph Daher reports on a surge of protest in Syria.
Standing up to MAGA’s war against the people
The United Left Platform statement on the escalation of state-sponsored murders of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Texas and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine by the Trump administration and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.
Solidarity without exception
Sam Friedman argues for the connection between the Left’s principled defense of the rights of national self-determination, in places like Iran and Ukraine, with the historic development of capitalism and imperialism and the movements which arose in struggle against them.
Iran’s Revolution was not destined to end in clerical rule
Hossam el-Hamalawy argues that the outcome of the Iranian Revolution was not inevitable. It contained democratic and egalitarian possibilities that were defeated through political struggle rather than cultural destiny.
Two cases, one tradition
Blanca Missé argues that the legal repression of activists calls for a political response inside the courtroom—linked to organizing on the outside.
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