Features

The Inventor of Big Things: A Tribute to Livio Maitan
16 September, by Gregor Benton
The following tribute was delivered at the launch of Livio Maitan’s memoirs by Gregor Benton, the English translator. The launch was the 2019 Historical Materialism conference in London, Greg was speaking via video link from Borneo, where he was engaged in the documentation of a critically endangered indigenous language.
’Nobody announces that democracy ends now’
7 September, by Can Koçak, Ian Parker
Can Koçak of the Workers’ Party of Turkey talks to Ian Parker about creeping fascism, the trap of elections, and what the left has to stop doing to itself.
Stalinism’s Failures Vindicate Trotsky’s Critique
3 September, by Livio Maitan
On the anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International the publication for the first time in English of this text by Livio Maitan.
Class struggle today: Fragmentation and the crisis of political form
17 August, by Sushovan Dhar
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.
Modern counter-revolution and fascism
17 August, by Norbert Holcblat
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?
For a Global Anti-Fascist and Anti-Imperialist Front
4 August, by Farooq Tariq
Haqooq Khalq Party (Pakistan) held an International Anti-Imperialism Conference in Lahore on 3rd May. Some academics from US, Canada, UK participated. I chaired the first session and here is my contribution to the Conference.
After hyperglobalisation: the capitalist reconfiguration
1 August, by Diogo Machado and Alexandre Abreu
Crises of capital accumulation, from the 1970s to the 2008 financial crisis, combined with the emergence of new powers, shape capitalist and imperialist policies.
Many Shades of Campism: An Internationalist Critique
1 August, by Amir Kianpour, Morteza Samanpour
Contemporary capitalism is shifting into a war conjuncture: as the world market fractures, rivalries among geo-economic powers intensify, often to the point of outright military confrontation, while militarization spills beyond the battlefield into political governance and everyday life. In this context, the historical necessity of renewing an internationalism becomes ever clearer, especially as local conditions are increasingly mediated by globalized processes and absorbed into the vortex of the global war regime.
The imperialism of our time
27 July, by Benjamin Bürbaumer
The discussion continues on the nature of imperialisms and their functions in international relations. Interview with  Benjamin Bürbaumer, economist specialist in globalisation and international political economy, by Juan Tortosa.
Fourth of July at 250: The On-Going Struggle for Equality, Democracy, and Justice
20 July, by Dan La Botz
“On July 4, our 250th birthday as a nation, we should celebrate the underdogs, the dissidents, the rebellious who fought and continue to fight against exploitation and oppression, and stand for equality, democracy, and justice.”