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#TrotskyVersusNetflix

Nancy Fraser, Fredric Jameson and More Join Trotsky’s Grandson in Repudiating Netflix’s "Trotsky"

20 February | Academics, writers, journalists and political activists repudiate the mini-series “Trotsky”, available on Netflix.

IDEAS AND DEBATES

A Socialist Case Against Bernie 2020

25 January | A left-populist campaign inside the Democratic Party will not get us closer to socialism.

IDEAS AND DEBATES

The Politics of Red Rosa

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 (...)

NEW YEAR

I Hate New Year’s Day

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.

FRANCE

On Yellow Vests, Unions, and Intellectuals

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 (...)

GERMAN REVOLUTION

Communism Made in Germany

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 (...)

#LetThemAllIn

Nagle Is Wrong: There Is No Left Case Against Open Borders

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 (...)

100 YEARS OF THE GERMAN REVOLUTION

100 Years Ago in Berlin: The Bitter Lesson of a Defeat

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 (...)

ARGENTINA

Revolutionaries in Parliament

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 (...)

BRAZIL

The PT, Neoliberalism, and the Brazilian Regime

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 (...)

100 YEARS OF THE GERMAN REVOLUTION

100 Years Ago in Berlin: Revolution and Counterrevolution in Germany

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 (...)

US ELECTIONS

Race, Class and Gender in the Midterms: Solidarity or Collision?

17 November 2018 | What the interplay of race, gender and class dynamics teaches us about Trumpism and the 2018 midterm election results.

MEDIA AND CULTURE

Black Radicalism on Screen: “The Hate U Give”

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

100 Years of the German Revolution: Interview with Ralf Hoffrogge

’The Workers Invented a Concept for Socialist Transformation’

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."

BRAZIL

The Rise of Bolsonaro and the Position of Brazilian Revolutionaries

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 (...)

Reassessing the Legacy of Louis Althusser on His 100-Year Anniversary: An Interview with Warren Montag

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 (...)

Karl Kautsky: From Pope to Renegade

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.

UNITED STATES

Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court, and the Need for a Stronger Challenge

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 (...)

IDEAS AND DEBATES

Populism and Its Uses: Antinomies of a Failed Reformist Strategy

20 September 2018 | Reflections on Chantal Mouffe’s new book, “For a Left Populism.”

IDEAS AND DEBATES

On Reproductive Labor, Wage Slavery and the New Working Class

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 (...)

IDEAS AND DEBATES

Trotskyist Summer School in Catalonia

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 (...)

IDEAS AND DEBATES

80 Years of the Fourth International

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 (...)

IDEAS AND DEBATES

Why Trotskyism?

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?

Open Letter to Kshama Sawant: Don’t Support the Police!

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 (...)