Threat of Civil War at the State Level in the U.S.: Reflections on Trumpism in Michigan
Summary: — The lurch toward fascism of the Michigan Republican Party shows the dangers ahead, even with Trump out of the White House — Editors
read moreReview—Judas and the Black Messiah
Summary: Judas and the Black Messiah provided an opportunity to tell to the story of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton to a new generation—did it really succeed in doing so?
read moreBurma/Myanmar 2021: a new phase in a long struggle for freedom
Summary: Long struggle for freedom and against military dictatorship enters a new phase, as mass protests sweep the country — Editors
read moreThe Ongoing Farmers’ Agitation in India: Revolutionary Possibilities
Summary: Assessment in wake of the January 26 confrontations — Editors
read moreTurkish Protests Against Erosion of Academic Freedom and Virulent Heterosexism
Summary: Students and professors resist attempts to place Boğaziçi University under the control of an increasingly authoritarian state, which is using heterosexist propaganda against them — Editors
read moreLebanon: Behind the Assassination of Lokman Slim
Summary: Assassination of independent-minded Shiite intellectual Lukman Slim, apparently by Hezbollah, is a blow to democratic resistance — Editors
read moreUpdate about Dr. Maati Monjib’s Imprisonment in Morocco
Summary: Protest outrageous one-year prison sentence for Moroccan historian, journalist, and human rights activist Maati Monjib, who is the translator of Dunayevskaya’s Marxism and Freedom and other Marxist works into Arabic — Editors
read more[Audio] Kieran Durkin on Erich Fromm, Marxist Humanism, and the Revolution of Hope
Summary: Long Reads is a Jacobin podcast looking in-depth at political topics and thinkers, both contemporary and historical, with the magazine’s longform writers. Hosted by Features Editor Daniel Finn.
read moreLooking Back at Maoism and the Global Left
Summary: Review of Maoism: A Global History by Julia Lovell, emphasizing Southern Africa, Indonesia, and Cambodia. First appeared in New Politics, Winter 2021, here https://newpol.org/review/looking-back-at-maoism-%E2%80%A8and-the-global-left/ – Editors
read moreInequality and the Pandemic as a Lived Reality
Summary: Race, class, and the experiences of a Latinx family in Los Angeles County during the epidemic — Editors
read moreThis Was No Joke—Trump’s Attempted Coup Against Democracy on January 6
Summary: The foiled attack on the Capitol by neo-fascist white nationalists on January 6 marks a potential turning point in combatting the reactionary currents of which Trump is but the mouthpiece and expression – Editors
read moreWhere Do We Go from Here? Black Lives Matter as an Ongoing Movement
Summary: Presentation to online November 14 mini conference of the IMHO, “Where Do We Go from Here? Global Revolutionary Perspectives on the Present Moment” — Editors
read moreRecent Publications of Interest
A Revolutionary Subject: Pedagogy of Women of Color and Indigeneity
By: Lilia D. Monzó
Rosa Luxemburg: The Biography
By: J. P. Nettl
For Humanism: Explorations in Theory and Politics
By: David Alderson,
Kevin B. Anderson,
Timothy Brennan,
Barbara Epstein,
Robert Spencer
The Transition from Capitalism: Marxist Perspectives
By: Saeed Rahnema
The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume II: Economic Writings 2
By: Rosa Luxemburg
Marx on Gender and the Family (Turkish edition)
By: Heather Brown
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Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya
and Other Marxist-Humanist Classics
Draft Thesis: The Turning Point
The assessment of Goldwater in this draft thesis is referenced in the recent International Marxist-Humanist Organization article, Theoretical and Practical Perspectives for Overcoming Capitalism.
Dunayevskaya Collection
We are linking to the online version of the Raya Dunayevskaya Collection, which makes her germinal writings more widely available than before. (Her books have long been on our Literature Pages.)