The Fourth International was founded on 3 September 1938. We look into our history: Livio Maitan on “Stalinism’s Failures Vindicate Trotsky’s Critique”. Kay Mann reviews “The Early Comintern in Context”. Paul Le Blanc discusses the memoirs of Mikhail Baitalsky “Remaining true to socialism — and wrestling with its meaning”.
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Russia
What Victory Means: Relase All Political Prisoners
3 September, by ,“We are fighting for the release of all political prisoners. We think that every peace negotiation between Ukraine and Russia should include a point for the release of all political prisoners, on both sides. In Ukraine there are also political prisoners, so victory would mean the release of everybody.”
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Denmark
Impressive commitments – but now it’s time to fight!
2 September, byThe Red-Green Alliance’s negotiation team managed to secure some impressive commitments in the newly formed government’s policy programme. In order to realise these commitments, we must now mobilise the opposition and the left-wing movements.
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Bosnia-Herzegovina
Mladic, the war criminal, dies - we remember Srebrenica
1 September, byMladic, the butcher of Bosnia, died on August 27. We repost an article on Srebrenica, the worst massacre in a single day in Europe since the Second World War
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USA
Primary Electoral Victories of DSA and Progressives Lead to …
31 August, by“Often at the center of these debates is Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who is seen as a possible candidate in the Democratic Party’s presidential primary election in 2028. While she has not yet said if she will run, that possibility polarized DSA members.”
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31 August, byThe far right’s advance and the question of how to stop it gives this issue its spine: Martín Mosquera on "how to defeat Milei" in a reactionary period, Eduardo Lucita on the spectre of the far right haunting Latin America, Jorge Escalante on a Peruvian crisis that "will worsen with the Fujimorist victory," and the Against the Current editors on the looming US election.
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Recently posted Features
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Fourth International
Stalinism’s Failures Vindicate Trotsky’s Critique
3 September, byread article...On the anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International the publication for the first time in English of this text by Livio Maitan.
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Marxism
Marxist strategy in Western Europe
17 August, by ,read article...Gramsci is often considered as the main Marxist thinker to have paid particular attention to the specificities of the revolution in the West. His thinking on this question is indeed indispensable to any consideration of strategy, but it cannot be separated from the discussions initiated by Lenin and Trotsky in the Communist International (Comintern) of the 1920s.
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Class
Class struggle today: Fragmentation and the crisis of political form
17 August, byread article...It has become fashionable to declare that class struggle has faded into the past — dissolved by deindustrialisation, scattered by fragmented labour markets, eclipsed by identity-based movements, and exhausted along with the institutions that once gave it political form. From this vantage point, class appears to have lost its centrality, surviving at best as a residual category of analysis.
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Fascism
Modern counter-revolution and fascism
17 August, byread article...We know the first words of the Communist Manifesto: “A spectre is haunting Europe”. Today, two “spectres” with a material reality seem to haunt the capitalist world and weigh on the destinies of humanity: Donald Trump and artificial intelligence (AI). How do they fit together? What world are they likely to lead us to?
