Summary: On Rosa Luxemburg’s birthday, we present an extract from her 1906 essay “Critique in the Workers’ Movement,” available in English for the first time. Originally published on VersoBooks’ blog here – Editors.

Summary: Graduate students at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) have gone on a wildcat teaching strike in protest at unsustainable living conditions, joining their colleagues at UC Santa Cruz, who have been on strike since December of last year – Editors

Summary: On the class divide between rank-and-file workers and trade union bureaucrats, that motivated the Sanders campaign in Iowa and Nevada — Editors

Summary: The Irish election has produced a very strong showing for the left around issues of housing and healthcare costs/accessibility. Yet the left-of-centre Sinn Féin is not without contradictions — Editors

Summary: Vigorous and extensive participation of working masses in the ongoing spontaneous protest movement is the need of the hour!

Summary: Delivered as a comment after a presentation by Kevin B. Anderson on Marx at the Margins at University of Lund, Sweden — Editors

Summary: Below is the text of a flyer that was written by Lalan, a worker in Nagpur, India, and translated by Arvind Ghosh, for the General Strike in India which on 8-9th of January saw 150 million workers went on strike, including workers in transport, financial services, and both state-owned and private industries – Editors.

Summary: Sudan’s revolution is not only Arab but also African in a way not seen in the 2011 Arab uprisings. The old regime combined Islamism and a racist  form of Arabism with military rule, touching off in response a youthful, democratic, multiethnic, and pro-feminist revolutionary movement that has achieved something akin to dual power. First appeared in New Politics, Winter 2020, here https://newpol.org/issue_post/sudans-revolution-of-2019/ – Editors.

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Summary: This article on the differences between colonial-racist and emancipatory humanism, with a particular focus on Africa and on the writings of Frantz Fanon, is based on a presentation at a Los Angeles meeting of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization, June 2019. First appeared in New Politics, Winter 2020, here https://newpol.org/issue_post/anti-colonialism-and-humanism/ –Editors

Summary: This short video on the new translation of Kevin B. Anderson’s “Marx at the Margins” was first published on the website of Boitempo Editorial (Sao Paulo) on December 18, 2019, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FppS1YizO7E#action=share — Editors

The January 3 assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani was both reckless and illegal, an act of war that threatens a regional conflict – Editors.

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Summary: A statement against the insidious nature of casually transphobic rhetoric in UK media and the accompanying transphobic action which so often goes unexamined – Editors.

Summary:  While the effort of House Democrats to impeach Trump has not undermined his hold on power, the real test lies in taking the battle against him beyond the confines of the impeachment process — Editors.

Summary: We need your help to continue the work of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization.

Summary: Algeria’s nearly yearlong democratic movement resists a farcical election, continuing its standoff with the semi-military regime — Editors