A breakthrough for the French left?
by Ian Birchall
…for not calling for a vote for Macron in order to block Le Pen. In fact he could hardly have done so when he was planning within the coming few…
After Roe
Tempest editorial
by Natalia Tylim…a central plank of their program. It’s tied to controlling birth rates, producing more workers—and thus more competition between workers—but also an increased reliance on privatized social reproduction of children….
The necessity of organizing DSA members as workers
by Aaron Hall
…the Left’s strategy within it. – Aaron Hall With the elections of the third Steering Committee of the Democratic Socialists Labor Commission (DSLC) a few months ago, the Democratic Socialists…
The continuation of politics by other means
Review of Class War: a Jacobin board game
by Keith Rosenthal…recommend it for play with friends and comrades. In a game world saturated with contests of warring empires, monster-slaying, first-person-shooting, or otherwise depoliticized bluffing, guessing, resource management, or numbered card-collecting,…
Towards a new permanent global war?
NATO’s “new strategic concept”
by Jaime Pastor…their common willingness to collaborate in the “management of irregular migratory flows”, or, to put it another way, in migratory necropolitics. They immediately delegate this task to their common friend,…
“Written on Mars”
Is it time to lay Philip Foner to rest?
by Joe Allen…enduring legacy of anti-communism in U.S. intellectual life. The Foner family was victimized by anti-communism for decades. Scott McLemee, surveying the Foner’s controversial legacy (“Seeing Red”) nearly twenty years ago…
A Rebel’s Guide to Walter Rodney
A kick-off talk from Chinedu Chukwudinma
by Chinedu Chukwudinma…major groups, the Africans, who come from slavery, and the Indo-Guyanese, who come from indentureship, uniting in the anti-colonial struggle. And this was a rare moment, because usually the two…
Origins of the rank and file strategy
by Kim Moody
…developing in the industrial workplaces since the early 1950s are now plainly visible. Like many of their compatriots, American workers are faced with paces, methods and conditions of work that…
Competing visions of the BDS Boston Mapping Project
Obscuring the map
by Jonah ben Avraham…National Committee (BNC), the self-proclaimed leadership of the BDS movement, chose the wrong side. On June 22, the BNC released a statement saying that the movement “has no connection to…
Sri Lanka’s democratic revolution
The latest episode in a decades-long drama
by Rohini Hensman…was parliament disempowered, but institutions that should be independent of the executive and ruling political party—like the Election Commission, Supreme Court, and judiciary, National Police Commission, Commission to Investigate Allegations…