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    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.

  • Cutout photos of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero smiling at the camera.

    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.

  • A drawing of crowds of yellow, gray, orange, and green hands reaching out to each other.

    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.

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    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.

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    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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  • A spinning circle of paint on a canvas in purple, yellow, white, and turqoise hues.

    Afro-surrealism with a banging soundtrack

    What makes I Love Boosters distinctive is the clarity of its class politics—a review by Glenn Allen.

  • Photos in picture frames of Napoleon III Silvio Berlusconi Tayyip Erdoğan Narendra Modi Viktor Orbán and Donald trump

    Patrimonial Bonapartism 

    Anthony Teso makes the case for seeing Trump’s regime as patrimonial and Bonapartist in character rather than fascist or populist-authoritarian.

  • A crowd of protestors holding signs with slogans like "No Kings No ICE"

    Tempest, the United Front approach, and “the Resistance”

    Aaron Amaral assesses how revolutionaries should relate to the constellation of forces that have grown up in opposition to the Trump administration and its authoritarian efforts

  • A soldier holding a gun in a field.

    From squats to trenches

    Paweł Jędral reports on the activity and ideas of a Ukrainian leftist collective in the armed resistance to the Russian invasion.

  • A photo of a crowd of riot cops next to a photo of a sign reading "Delaney Hall Concentration Camp".

    Solidarity with striking ICE hostages!

    Tempest interviews Izzy, a NYC activist, about their experiences in organizing in support of the strikers and their families at the Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center.

  • An audience of people sitting in a convention hall with UAW signs.

    UAW divests from Israel bonds

    After UAWD members forced the amendment onto the Constitutional Convention agenda, UAW delegates voted to divest the union’s reported $400,000 in Israel bonds, marking a victory for decades of rank-and-file organizing. Navruz Baum reports.

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    United Left Platform stands in solidarity with Minnesota and Michigan activists facing state repression

    A statement from the United Left Platform in solidarity with fifteen anti-ICE activists in Minnesota and eight pro-Palestinian activists in Michigan who are now facing unjust charges for their participation in protests against the ICE occupation of the Twin Cities and the genocide in Gaza.

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    The upsurge in Bolivia

    The United Left Platform is hosting a virtual event on Friday, June 26 at 8pm ET to discuss the recent uprising in Bolivia and its impact both there and on the fight against imperialism and the far right internationally.

  • A crowd of people by the shore under palm trees waving Palestine flags.

    Ukrainians in solidarity with Palestine 

    Ashley Smith interviews Andriy Movchan about their participation in the Global Sumud Flotilla and its significance for building solidarity between Ukrainians and Palestinians and their liberation struggles.