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Marxist economist Michael A Lebowitz passed away at home on April 19. With his death, the international left has lost one of its most insightful and original thinkers, whose contributions to reviving Karl Marx’s vision of socialism are essential reading for activists.
Lebowitz built on his (...)
Bernie Sanders’ newest book, “It’s OK to be Angry About Capitalism,” was clearly written by Sanders, whose voice reverberates loudly in print from beginning to end. The curious title led many to speculate about the book’s content.
Many readers likely hoped it would include a tell-all about the (...)
Fascist activists are seeking to exploit a fracture on the left over the war in Ukraine to grow their movement.
The idea of a political coalition that mixes self-identified communists with neo-Nazis may seem implausible at first. However, a February 19 rally in Washington, D.C., branded as an (...)
Daniel Ellsberg, a giant of American history for leaking the Pentagon Papers, wrote the following email to friends on Wednesday, including Consortium News, and has today decided to make it public.
Daniel Ellsberg. (Free Getty embed, Paul J. RIchards)
Dear friends and supporters,
I have (...)
Oaklandsocialist interviews Green Party candidate of president in 2020 and long time activist, Howie Hawkins. Full transcript below video.
John Reiman: So we’re talking here with Howie Hawkins, who’s a prominent member of the Green Party and a former member of the Teamsters. So would you like to (...)
Nate Moore explains why U.S. based socialists should not be opposing arms to Ukraine despite the inter-imperialist dynamics unleashed by the Russian invasion.
What position should socialists take regarding U.S./NATO arms to Ukraine? Recently, Left Voice has engaged in a debate with other (...)
Two and a half years ago, the Columbia Journalism Review refused to publish Duncan Campbell’s investigation into The Nation magazine and its apparent support for Vladimir Putin. It is published here in full
[(In 2018, Duncan Campbell was commissioned by the “voice of journalism” and “watchdog of (...)
Howie Hawkins is a retired Teamsters union warehouse worker, the US Green Party 2020 presidential candidate and an ecosocialist. Together with a range of other leftists, socialists, unionists and academics, he recently helped set up the Ukraine Solidarity Network (US). Hawkins spoke to Federico (...)
Bill Fletcher, Jr. (Ukraine Solidarity Network) debated Medea Benjamin (Code Pink) last Sunday (Jan. 29) on the issue of Ukraine. The debate helped clarify some points, and raised some previously less clear issues.
Benjamin
Benjamin started off by saying how much she respected Bill Fletcher, (...)
“…new forces and new passions spring up in the bosom of society; but the old social organization fetters them and keeps them down.” Karl Marx
The recent shooting at a LGBTQ bar in Colorado once again brought to light the hate crimes that the LGBTQ community endures. Homophobia is certainly not (...)
The world crisis revolving around the war in Ukraine has a deep influence in US politics. This makes understanding that war all the more important.
In January, the fascist-linked Republican Party will take power in the US House of Representatives. They will use this power to try to stop US (...)
The left – in Canada and internationally – has not responded in a coherent way to Russia’s assault on Ukraine.
The Social-Democratic left, such as Canada’s NDP, is sympathetic to Ukraine’s resistance but largely fails to dissociate itself from the government’s political support for the neoliberal (...)
There is an ongoing debate within Democratic Socialists of America on the question of Ukraine. Many individual DSA members and chapters have upheld the basic socialist principle of international solidarity, that a nation and people subject to foreign aggression have the fundamental right to (...)
Fair warning: this is a seriously misguided and disorienting book, even though useful in a certain sense. It’s useful for some background material it presents, but (as we’ll see) in a severely one-sided way – and important for what it reveals of the impasse of a U.S. peace movement in facing a (...)
A review of Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies book on Ukraine by Linda Mann of the Ukraine Socialist Solidarity Campaign
This article was greatly facilitated by Bill Weinberg’s podcast about the book on Counter Vortex. The level of research in his review of this odious book is phenomenal and (...)
President Joe Biden, who had promised to be the most labor friendly president in history, worked with the U.S. Congress to outlaw a railroad union strike and to impose a new contract on the industry covering approximately 135,000 workers. Under the Railway Labor Act, Congress passed and the (...)
“Sovereignty and self-determination are important concepts to keep at the heart of Left analysis”—and can help orient us in the confusion and misinformation surrounding Russia’s war on Ukraine.
1. Why is the principle of self-determination so important to understanding the conflict in Ukraine? (...)
Jill Stein has form. Mary Scully, an Irish-American activist and blogger, explains below.
The Green Party (USA) is split down the middle on this issue.
This party’s 2020 Presidential candidate, Howie Hawkins, endorses the policy of the European Network for Solidarity with Ukraine (ENSU) and (...)
The headlines of the international press on the outcome of the US midterm elections are not wrong: Yes, the long-awaited Republican tsunami did not materialise. And the Democrats held up much better than they had hoped. The reason for all these big surprises is beginning to emerge: Young (...)
The Congressional Progressive Caucus sent a letter on Ukraine to President Biden signed by 30 of its members on October 24. Within 24 hours the letter had been formally retracted. What are we to make of all this?
1. Did the Progressive Caucus mess up?
The letter was not formally sent on (...)
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