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The Antisemitism Scare: Guide for the Perplexed
Alan Wald
Posted November 12, 2024
INTRODUCTION: As we enter a new political landscape following the election of Donald Trump, resistance to Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza and its bellicose military actions in the region takes on a greater urgency than ever before–even as political repression on US campuses intensifies….
Conference in Honor of Boris Kagarlitsky: Imperialism(s) Panel
Robert Brenner, Ilya Matveev & Hanna Perekhoda
Posted November 9, 2024
Free Boris Kagarlitsky and all anti-war political prisoners in the Russian Federation!
A message from Boris Kagarlitsky, November 14, 2024
Suzi Weissman: Welcome to Jacobin Radio. I’m your host, Suzi Weissman. On October 8th, the Boris Kagarlitsky International Solidarity Campaign held an online conference on “Boris Kagarlitsky and the Challenges of the Left.” Although Kagarlitsky is serving a five-year sentence in a Russian penal colony, he has just published a book called The…
The Path to Victory & the Tasks of the Ukrainian Left
Sotsialnyi Rukh
Posted October 31, 2024
ONE OF THE key decisions of the Social Movement (Sotsialnyi Rukh) conference, which took place in Kyiv on October 5-6, 2024, was the adoption of the resolution, “The path to victory and the tasks of the Ukrainian left.” Below is the text of the resolution:…
Boeing Workers Settle Seven-week Strike
Malik Miah
Posted October 26, 2024
UPDATE: LEADERS OF THE International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) District 751 in Seattle said 59% of members who cast ballots November 4 agreed to approve the fourth formal offer (and the third put to a vote). It ended a seven-week strike. The October 31 deal was backed by the union leadership.
“It’s time for us to come together. This is a victory,” IAM District 751 President Jon Holden told members….
Remarks at the Boris Kagarlitsky Conference, October 8, 2024
Bill Fletcher, Jr.
Posted October 19, 2024
Free Boris Kagarlitsky and all anti-war political prisoners in the Russian Federation!
A message from Boris Kagarlitsky, November 14, 2024
GREETINGS AND MY profound thanks for the honor of participating in and addressing today’s conference, celebrating the work of comrade Boris Kagarlitsky and acting in solidarity with the comrade in his fight for freedom. A fight, I should say, not only for his own freedom, but a fight for freedom against the forces of authoritarianism and 21st century fascism….
Justice Not Evictions
John Zettner
Posted October 15, 2024
We Live Here
Detroit Eviction Defense and the Battle for Housing Justice
by Jeffrey Wilson and Bambi Kramer
Seven Stories Press, 2024, 238 pages, $16.95 paperback; ebook $10.
WILSON AND KRAMER’s graphic story highlights the victorious struggles of several homeowners, providing a glimpse into the economic crisis in Detroit and its resistance by the community. The tsunami came to the city earler than the country’s 2008 meltdown and stayed longer.
The group of activists…
A Letter from the Editors: Election and Widening War
The Editors
Posted October 10, 2024
WITH WAR AND genocide spreading from Palestine to Lebanon and Iran, with southern states inundated by the biggest climate-change flood disaster in U.S. history, and people’s general insecurity about their own and the country’s future, the United States lurches toward what’s called “the most consequential election in our lifetime” that may in the end resolve little or nothing….
Harris, Trump, or Neither? Arab & Muslim Voters’ Anger Grows
Malik Miah
Posted October 10, 2024
AMONG THE MOST significant political developments in the 2024 presidential election is that Arab, Palestinian and Muslim communities are rejecting the party of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for their support of genocide in Gaza, Palestine, and Lebanon….
Scholars to Address Conference Honoring Russian Dissident Boris Kagarlitsky
Posted October 3, 2024
Free Boris Kagarlitsky and all Russian anti-war political prisoners!
October 1, 2024
Scholars from across the globe will gather for an online conference on October 8 in honor of Russian sociologist Boris Kagarlitsky, who is serving a five-year sentence in a Russian penal colony on the fabricated charge of “justifying terrorism.”…
Marx Redux
Scott McLemee
Posted September 30, 2024
Scott McLemee interviews Paul Reitter, translator of a new English edition of Marx’s Capital.
IN EARLY 1845, a young and precariously employed holder of a Ph.D. in philosophy named Karl Marx signed a contract with a German publisher for a book, in two volumes, on political economy. He had already filled notebooks with extracts from his studies in the field, and at the time likely felt like he was already reasonably far along on the project. But his publisher canceled the contract two…
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Against the Current
- Election and Widening War—The Editors
- A Century of Surrealism—Alexander Billet
- Arab & Muslim Voters’ Anger Grows—Malik Miah
- The 2024 British Elections—Kim Moody
- The UAW & Southern Organizing—Joseph van der Naald & Michael Goldfield
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Pamphlets from Solidarity
THE “SOCIALISM-FROM- BELOW” tradition views the working class as the central agent of overthrowing a system based on the market and the exploitation, alienation and unequal society it perpetuates.
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