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.
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Livio Maitan
The Inventor of Big Things: A Tribute to Livio Maitan
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France
“Fighting sexist and sexual violence means guaranteeing the place of women in the CGT”
11 September, by ,Raphaëlle Manière is a railway worker in the Jura, where she works in the sales sector. She has a part-time trade union job. Since 2016, she has been in charge of the monitoring unit against sexist and sexual violence of the French trade union confederation, the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT) . Former general secretary of the CGT Jura departmental union from 2010 to 2017, she also sat on the Economic, Social and Environmental Council (CESE) between 2015 and 2021, where she was (…)
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Turkey
’Nobody announces that democracy ends now’
7 September, by ,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.
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Fourth International
Stalinism’s Failures Vindicate Trotsky’s Critique
3 September, byOn 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 ,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, byIt 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, byWe 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?
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Anti-fascism and Anti-Imperialism
For a Global Anti-Fascist and Anti-Imperialist Front
4 August, byHaqooq 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.
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Economy
After hyperglobalisation: the capitalist reconfiguration
1 August, byCrises of capital accumulation, from the 1970s to the 2008 financial crisis, combined with the emergence of new powers, shape capitalist and imperialist policies.
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Economic thought
An important contribution by Ernest Mandel to the debate on the transition to socialism
1 August, by ,We are reprinting an important text that Ernest Mandel wrote in late 1963 to contribute to the public debate that had begun in Cuba a few months earlier. The main participants in the debate were, on the one hand, Ernesto Che Guevara (Minister of Industry) and Luis Álvarez Rom (Minister of Finance) and, on the other, Alberto Mora (Minister of Foreign Trade) and Marcelo Fernández Font (President of the National Bank of Cuba).
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At the Cubans’ request, two foreign Marxist economists joined the (…)
