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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
Review—Judas and the Black Messiah
Summary: Judas and the Black Messiah provided an opportunity to tell the story of Black Panther leader Fred Hampton to a new generation—did it really succeed in doing so?
Burma/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
The Ongoing Farmers’ Agitation in India: Revolutionary Possibilities
Summary: Assessment in wake of the January 26 confrontations — Editors
International appeal for the immediate release of all political prisoners in Russia
Summary: This urgent appeal was written in collaboration with activists and intellectuals living in Russia – Editors.
Turkish 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
Lebanon: 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
Update 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
[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.
Looking 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
Inequality 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
Don’t Forget the Political Earthquake in Georgia
Summary: Defeat of the Republicans in the January 5 Georgia senate election at the hands of Blacks and other progressives upends the decades-old Republican “Southern strategy” — Editors
This 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
The Revolutionary Humanism of Frantz Fanon
The philosopher, psychiatrist, and revolutionary militant Frantz Fanon was a key figure in the struggle against European colonialism. Fanon’s innovative thinking on racism and its relationship to class oppression still speaks vividly to the present. First appeared in Jacobin: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/12/humanism-frantz-fanon-philosophy-revolutionary-algeria
Moroccan Historian and Human Rights Activist Arrested
Summary: Protest arrest of Moroccan Marxist historian and human rights activist Maâti Monjib — Editors