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New Uprisings in Iran: A Preliminary Analysis
Summary: Presented at a forum, “Responding to Capitalism’s Wars at Home and Abroad,” in Los Angeles on January 14, sponsored by the Coalition for Peace, Revolution, and Social Justice and first published on the CPRSJ website, here https://cprsj.wordpress.com/2018/01/26/new-uprisings-in-iran-a-preliminary-analysis-by-ali-kiani/ — Editors
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Trump’s War Threats and a World in Crisis
Summary: Presented at a forum, “Responding to Capitalism’s Wars at Home and Abroad,” in Los Angeles, sponsored by the Coalition for Peace, Revolution, and Social Justice and first published on the CPRSJ website — Editors
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Book Review: The Strangers Among Us: Tales from a Global Migrant Worker Movement. Edited by Joseph B. Atkins – reviewed by Richard Abernethy
Summary: A look at migrant workers in many countries, their experiences and struggles and the organisations they are building. Originally published by LabourStart, 2016 — Editors
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Iran Uprising after Five Days
Summary: This assessment from inside Iran during the uprising has just reached us. For this author’s earlier assessment, also published by us, see “Is Iran Moving Toward a Real Revolution” — Editors
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Is Iran Moving Toward a Real Revolution?
Summary: A brief preliminary assessment of the situation in Iran in the first days of the revolt from a longtime Marxist inside the country, where youth have risen up against unemployment, poverty, and theocratic dictatorship. Translated by Ali Kiani — Editors
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Obituary: Professor Narihiko Ito (1931 – 2017) Founder and (honorable) Chairman of the International Rosa Luxemburg Society
Summary: Gyorgy Szell and Ottokar Luban at the Rosa Luxemburg Blog remember the contributions and accomplishments of Professor Narihiko Ito. This article, translated into English by Sobhanlal Datta Gupta, was originally published in the Rosa Luxemburg Blog, December 11th, 2017.
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Release Iranian Labor Activist Reza Shahabi!
Summary: Demands release of an Iranian labor activist whose medical condition has deteriorated — Editors
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On the Centenary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution
Summary: Discussion of 1917 in terms of Lenin’s concepts of state and revolution, imperialism/national liberation, and the need to uproot capitalism. Also looks at Lenin’s and Trotsky’s differences with Luxemburg and the relevance of the experience of 1917 for today, in the era since Occupy and the Arab revolutions. Originally appeared as part of an international symposium, “The Bolshevik Revolution, One Hundred Years After,” Crisis & Critique 4:2, Nov. 7, 2017 — Editors
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Red and Black Friday in Los Angeles
Summary: Account by Coalition for Peace, Revolution, and Social Justice (CPRSJ) of demonstration in Los Angeles. Originally appeared HERE — Editors
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Demand Immediate Release of Mahmoud Salehi
Summary: Call for the Iranian regime to release longtime labor activist, whose life is at risk due to serious health problems – Editors
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Marx’s Capital After 150 Years: Revolutionary Reflections
Summary: Focuses on commodity fetishism, free and associated labor, permanent unemployment, revolution, and race/ethnicity within the working classes. Orig. appeared in Socialism and Democracy 31:1 (2017) and in escholarship, UCSB, here https://escholarship.org/uc/item/75p9f598 — Editors
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Three Speeches at the October 27 CPRSJ Demonstration against War Threats over Korea and Iran (Los Angeles)
Summary: From a demonstration sponsored by the LA-based Coalition for Peace, Revolution, and Social Justice (CPRSJ) and originally published on its website on November 6, 2017 – Editors
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A Few Words on Marxism and Identity Politics
Summary: This article examines identity politics, and the intersections between race and class to argue for a new “Marxist identity politics” that overcomes class reductionism, while standing against an understanding of identity politics that abstracts from a class analysis. Orig. published on Jan. 8, 2017 in Left Voice – Editors
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Racist Police Killings in Seattle: The Injustice and the Response
Summary: A pattern of police killings of people of color in Seattle has led to persistent community protests, but no real change — Editors