To the Memory of the Antifascist Fighters
On the 79th anniversary of the Russian victory over Nazi Germany.
A New Left Party Shakes Up Germany – 2 Articles
A new political party in Germany has been launched in Germany. It aims to draw a clear line between Berlin’s belligerence towards Russia and how the weight of that stance falls most heavily on the German working class through deindustrialization and austerity.
Lenin’s ‘Last Testament’: The Prophetic Last Words of a Marxist for Our Times
‘Lenin led to Stalin’ is not even given the status of a historical controversy in schools and colleges. It is accepted as fact. This belief is destroyed by a document known as Lenin’s Testament. The Testament was dictated by Lenin as he lay dying in Gorky.
In the Age of Hindutva, Why Madhu Dandavate’s Legacy Must Be Cherished
Remembering Madhu Dandavate, one of the finest socialists of India, whose birth centenary falls this month. He was born on January 21, 1924.
After Threat of Coup and Nine Hours of Delay, the President of Guatemala Is Sworn in
Attempt to weaken the new president’s parliamentary group backfires as his Semilla Party assumes presidency of Congress.
The Cuban Revolution Through the Eyes of the Women of My Life
This January 1st Cuba will celebrate 65 years since the triumph of the Revolution of 1959 led by Fidel and a group of valuable men and women, for whom the gratitude of the Cuban people remains intact. This article honors that victory through three women whose lives have the Revolution as a common thread.
Charlie Chaplin’s Enduring Legacy – Part 1
Director Martin Brest shares his thoughts on the ingenuity and lasting impact of Charlie Chaplin’s transformative career in cinema. Part 1 of a 2-part interview.
Socialism’s Self-Criticism and Real Democracy
The question is: why have the otherwise different capitalist and socialist systems of the late 20th and early 21st centuries displayed quite similar formal democracies (apparatuses of voting) and equally similar absences of real democracy? Socialists have developed answers that entailed a significant socialist self-criticism.
Campesinos as Scientists
On PROINPA, a grassroots campesino organization in Venezuela promoting food sovereignty, endogenous seed production, and an agroecological transition.
Venezuela’s Critical Conjunctures: A Conversation with Steve Ellner
A historian with four decades of life and work in Venezuela reflects on the Bolivarian Process and the events leading up to the revolution.