20 February | Academics, writers, journalists and political activists repudiate the mini-series “Trotsky”, available on Netflix.
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25 January | A left-populist campaign inside the Democratic Party will not get us closer to socialism.
Juan Cruz Ferre
15 January | On January 15, 1919, a group of Freikorps (German paramilitaries) murdered Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht. What they could not kill was the powerful ideas of the “red rose” of the world (...)
Josefina L. Martínez
31 December 2018 | Every morning, when I wake again under the pall of the sky, I feel that for me it is New Year’s day.
Antonio Gramsci
17 December 2018 | The gilets jaunes (Yellow Vests) are breathing new life into an international scene brimming with “organic crises” but lacking hegemony. Similarities and differences are noted between Macri and (...)
Matias Maiello
12 December 2018 | 100 years ago, Germany was an epicenter of communism. The Communist Party of Germany (KPD) had up to 300,000 members. A new anthology presents the latest historical research on this period in (...)
Wladek Flakin
30 November 2018 | Angela Nagle and other reformists are wrong. The “left case” against open borders ignores imperialism and functions on the false premise that capitalists want to open the (...)
Jimena VergaraLuigi Morris
27 November 2018 | The Social Democrats and the military prepared to crush the revolution. A big majority of the working class desired socialism – but they had no major party of their own to lead the struggles. What (...)
22 November 2018 | Following the U.S. Midterm elections, a contest which provided no principled choice for working class voters, Left Voice interviewed two representatives of the PTS for their views on how (...)
Left Voice
20 November 2018 | The Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT - Workers’ Party) has played an important role during decisive moments of Brazilian history. This article offers a critical overview of the party’s responsibility (...)
Edison Urbano
18 November 2018 | In the first days of the German Revolution, workers’ and soldiers’ councils formed across Germany. The Social Democrats allied with the military to save as much of the old order as they could. The (...)
17 November 2018 | What the interplay of race, gender and class dynamics teaches us about Trumpism and the 2018 midterm election results.
Thuy Anh Tran
9 November 2018 | It's not every day that the music of Tupac Shakur and the politics of the Black Panthers are harmoniously woven into a tale about a modern black family
Ben Fredericks
5 November 2018 | On November 9, 1918, the revolution began in Germany. We spoke with historian Ralf Hoffrogge about the role of the "Revolutionary Stewards."
Wladek FlakinGuillermo Iturbide
17 October 2018 | Socialist Revolutionaries from Brazil explain how they are organizing against the rise of the far-right and why the call for a ‘critical vote’ to the PT in the coming runoff (...)
Movimento Revolucionário de Trabalhadores
16 October 2018 | Louis Althusser was one of the most disputed scholars in the Marxist tradition. Condemned as a revisionist by some, celebrated as a brilliant, innovative Marxist philosopher by others, his (...)
Juan Dal MasoWarren Montag
3 October 2018 | In the last few years, there has been a revival of interest in Kautsky's politics in both academia and on the political left.
Doug Greene
1 October 2018 | Despite the shockingly farcical hearing in which Brett Kavanaugh was forced to address allegations of his history of sexual assault, there is every indication that he will be confirmed by the (...)
Francesca Gomes
20 September 2018 | Reflections on Chantal Mouffe’s new book, “For a Left Populism.”
Claudia Cinatti
11 September 2018 | The feminist movement has reemerged on a world scale, and the debate over how patriarchy and capitalism are related is once again on the agenda. This old but renewed debate has taken on a new (...)
Celeste MurilloAndrea D’Atri
5 September 2018 | Last weekend, almost 100 people gathered in the Catalonian coastal town of Palamós for a summer school. The Revolutionary Workers Current (CRT) invited workers and youth for a weekend full of (...)
3 September 2018 | 80 years ago today, on September 3, 1938, a secret meeting took place in a house in Périgny, a small town outside of Paris. 26 delegates represented eleven revolutionary organizations from around (...)
25 August 2018 | It has been 78 years since Trotsky was murdered in Mexico on the orders of Stalin. Why is Trotskyism still relevant today?
Jimena Vergara
23 August 2018 | Kshama Sawant, a socialist on the Seattle city council, has just voted to confirm the new police chief. This is a serious mistake, as the police are defenders of capitalism. Socialists should aim (...)