From New Lines Magazine As Latin American dictators marginalize and jail protesters, the leaders rely on backing from prominent but obtuse individuals and organizations What
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At this late stage in the game, one should not be surprised at how incredibly poor the western left’s understanding of China is. Many western
A “Letter Against US Imperialism” has been circulating in leftist circles. It views the protests in Iran in a reductionist manner and unequivocally rejects them.
Late last year, a veteran of communist politics in Aotearoa/New Zealand decided to contribute to a march for the traditional working-class demand for reproductive rights
Introduction: Conspiracy theories and “pod people” When I wrote “Against Conservative Leftism” just over two years ago, I considered it disturbing that socialists would rally
How did we get here? For an infection to spread, you need both a germ (a virus, a bacterium, a spore or similar) and a
Germ 1: Political confusion and despair I now wish to return to the question of the agent of the Red-Brown zombie plague, that is: what
Once more the western ‘anti-war’ movement has awoken to mobilise around Syria. This is the third time since 2011. The first was when Obama contemplated
Samir Amin, Russia and the Long Transition from Capitalism to Socialism (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2016), 142 pp. For some time now, many of
As is well known, the period since the early 1970s has been one of massive historical structural transformations of the global order, frequently referred to