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J Turk

April 6, 2018 Length: 342 words 1 comments

Chicago Rally on 50th Anniversary of King’s Death: The Struggle Grows

Summary: A gathering remembers Martin Luther King Jr. and recommits to the fight against police domination in Chicago–Editors

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Ali Kiani,
Javier Sethness

March 28, 2018 Length: 3103 words 0 comments

On Internationalism and National Liberation in Syria: Should Afrin Be Defended?

Summary: Two separate articles, by Javier Sethness and Ali Kiani, respond to a critique of our support for the Syrian Kurds by Fredo Corvo, “Is the Defense of Afrin Proletarian Internationalism?”  The response by Sethness and an earlier version of the one by Kiani first appeared in Coalition for Peace Revolution, and Social Justice — Editors

 

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Peter Hudis

March 27, 2018 Length: 4304 words 3 comments

The Vision of the New Society in Marx’s Capital

Summary: Discusses commodity fetishism vs. communism, socially necessary labor time vs. free/creative labor. Includes responses to critiques of Marx by Silvia Federici (on gender) and Endnotes (on communism). Originally appeared in Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture 17:1 (Winter 2018)  — Editors

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Rocio Lopez

March 26, 2018 Length: 753 words 0 comments

March for Our Lives LA Protest

Summary: Youth are leading a movement against gun violence and rallied hundreds of thousands in the largest protests for gun control in US history, with this article focusing on the Los Angeles march–Editors

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Jens Johansson

March 24, 2018 Length: 2608 words 1 comments

Housing and Revolution

Summary: Housing prices are going up all over the world. As a result, many have experienced widespread displacement in process known as “gentrification.” How ought we to understand it? More importantly, how can it be fought? This article claims (perhaps counterintuitively) that great inspiration for answering these questions can be found in Friedrich Engels’s nearly 150-year-old text, “On the Housing Question.” Image: Norra Sorgenfri in Malmö, Sweden — Editors

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Gabriela Azevedo,
Allan M. Hillani

March 20, 2018 Length: 1416 words 0 comments

Black Feminist Marielle Franco’s Assassination Reveals the Banality of Death in Brazil

Summary: The assassination of Black feminist leader Marielle Franco, who was involved in both anti-capitalist and anti-racist politics, and who spoke out with uncommon force against the military occupation of the favelas of Rio, has touched off mass protests against Brazil’s increasingly authoritarian direction–Editors

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Rocio Lopez

March 19, 2018 Length: 825 words 1 comments

International Women’s Day 2018: “If We Stop, the World Stops”

Summary:  This year’s International Women’s Day marches and strikes exemplified a powerful year of change around the world, especially in Spain — Editors

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Red and Black History Campaign,
Forward Foundation and the Red

March 18, 2018 Length: 13 words 0 comments

Keep Rosa Luxemburg’s Birthplace Plaque!

Summary: Petition against removal of plaque honoring Rosa Luxemburg in her birthplace, Zamosc, Poland — Editors

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Dan Beltaigne

March 6, 2018 Length: 1300 words 0 comments

New Book on Teachers’ Unions Offers Lessons for Today

Summary: How resentment of teachers’ unions was used by capital to weaken labor as a whole. Especially important in light of today’s mass strike by West Virginia teachers — Editors

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Kevin B. Anderson

March 2, 2018 Length: 3088 words 0 comments

Theoretical Lessons of the Russian Revolution

Summary: Critical analysis of Lenin’s concepts of imperialism, war, national liberation, and the state and revolution, as well as on revolutionary organization and on dialectics. Originally presented at an International Marxist-Humanist Organization panel at the Westside Peace Center, Los Angeles, February 18, 2018; first published in New Politics Online — Editors

 

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Zachary Medeiros

March 1, 2018 Length: 177 words 1 comments

For the People of Eastern Ghouta, Syria

Summary: Call for solidarity with those targeted by the Assad regime and its allies Iran and Russia, especially on the part of those on the left who have supported the Afrin Kurds against Turkey’s attack. First published by the Coalition for Peace, Revolution, and Social Justice  — Editors

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Peter Hudis,
Lalan Kishor Singh

February 7, 2018 Length: 3267 words 0 comments

India: A Dialog With a Worker on the Future of Marxism

Summary: Lalan Kishor Singh, a production worker in Nagpur, India, recently raised vital questions in an open letter on the relation of workers and intellectuals, the failures of established socialism and communism, and the future of Marxism. A response follows by Peter Hudis, who visited Nagpur in November, followed by Singh’s reply. Arvind Ghosh has translated Singh from Hindi — Editors.

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Rhaysa Ruas

February 2, 2018 Length: 1208 words 1 comments

Brazil’s Racial Capitalism: Further Disruption of Democracy and Fall of the Left Increases the Risk of Fascism

Summary: Cultural, political, and economic crisis deepens in Brazil, with rightwing forces focusing their attacks on Marx and on Black and LGBT people in wake of the decline of the left after nearly two decades of compromise with neoliberalism under Workers’ Party rule. Image: neofascist demonstrators – photo by Diógenes Junior — Editors

 

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Dana Naomi Mills

January 30, 2018 Length: 975 words 2 comments

Everyone’s Child: The Case of Ahed Tamimi

Summary: At a moment when Israeli society continues to move ever further to the right, the need to solidarize with Ahed Tamimi, a 17-year-old Palestinian woman anti-war activist from the West Bank, takes on critical importance. This article views her resistance to Israeli policy as part of a legacy of activism, struggle and thought by women reaching back to the work of such figures as Eleanor Marx — Editors

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Ali Kiani

January 26, 2018 Length: 657 words 1 comments

Behind Turkey’s Attack on the Afrin Kurds: Imperialist Machinations in the Middle East

Summary: Speech at Coalition for Peace, Revolution and Social Justice’s January 26 banner drop over the freeway in downtown Los Angeles marking “Year 2 of Trump: LA Rise Up!” This was first published on the CPRSJ website, here https://cprsj.wordpress.com/2018/01/30/behind-turkeys-attack-on-the-afrin-kurds-imperialist-machinations-in-the-middle-east-by-ali-kiani/ –Editors

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