French Strikes and Popular Mobilizations Continue, Contesting Not Only Retirement Rollback, But Also Police Brutality and Authoritarian Politics
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French Strikes and Popular Mobilizations Continue, Contesting Not Only Retirement Rollback, But Also Police Brutality and Authoritarian Politics

France has reached a new stage with the 2023 demonstrations. Some are comparing the present situation to 1968. The difference between 1968 and 2023 is that today there are no vanguard parties like the left in 1968, that ultimately betrayed the struggle. The other difference is that …

Revisiting Marx on Race, Capitalism, and Revolution
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Revisiting Marx on Race, Capitalism, and Revolution

Did Karl Marx have a theory of race and capitalism? Not exactly, but he theorized on these issues for over four decades and much of what he wrote still speaks to us today. At a time of global and U.S. struggles for liberation in the face of a deeply racialized fascist threat, these writings are worth revisiting.

Marx, Gender, and the Alternative to Capitalism in 1871, 1844, and Today
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Marx, Gender, and the Alternative to Capitalism in 1871, 1844, and Today

Marx’s critique of gender oppression under crude communism offers an insightful and still-timely perspective that links together a needed critique from within the revolutionary movement and a conceptual framework that targets key features of an errant form of communism.

Class, Gender, Race & Colonialism: The ‘Intersectionality’ of Marx
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Class, Gender, Race & Colonialism: The ‘Intersectionality’ of Marx

Many people believe that Marx was obsessed only with class and had little appreciation of how issues of gender, racism and colonialism inter-related with class and the struggle for human emancipation. The author says that Marx’s writings have been misrepresented.