“The joy that engulfed Syrians with the fall of the Assad regime is accompanied by caution and fear in the future for democracy and freedoms.”
Understanding the rebellion in Syria
9 December 2024, byThe Left must avoid the twin traps of romanticization and defeatism. Instead, we must pursue a strategy of critical, progressive, international solidarity among popular forces in the region and throughout the world.
The Longest Night
27 November 2024, byThe Longest Night: Three Generations of Chinese Trotskyists in Defeat, Jail, Exile, and Diaspora, Editors/Translators: Gregor Benton and Yang Yang, with an introduction by Gregor Benton.
This sequel to Prophets Unarmed delves into the tumultuous journey of Chinese Trotskyism after 1949, tracing its evolution through defeat, exile, and diaspora, while showcasing the enduring relevance of its revolutionary ideals through memoirs, theoretical writings, and historical analyses; this extract is taken from the introduction by Gregor Benton.
Imperialism as Antagonistic Cooperation
20 November 2024, byIn the months before US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s uneasy visit to Beijing last year, the CEOs of J.P. Morgan, Starbucks, Apple, General Motors, and Tesla had amiable meetings with former Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang. Reaffirming what Xi Jinping and other Chinese ministers have declared on an annual basis, Qin assured Elon Musk that China “remain[s] committed to fostering a better market-oriented, law-based and internationalized business environment.” [1]
Geopolitical conflicts, anti-imperialism and internationalism in times of “reactionary acceleration”
20 November 2024, byWithin the general framework of the multidimensional crisis in which we find ourselves, now aggravated by the stimulus that Trump’s recent electoral victory represents for the rise of an extreme right on a global scale, it seems even more evident that we are witnessing a profound crisis of the international geopolitical (dis)order, as well as of the basic rules of International Law that have been established since the end of the Second World War. The most tragic manifestation of this crisis (which calls into question even the future of the UN) is found in the genocidal war against Gaza (Awad, 2024), to which are currently added around 56 wars across the planet.
Debate on the Left in Britain – towards a new broad party?
17 November 2024, by“British politics has become much more volatile and the hold of the two mainstream parties, Labour and the Conservatives, over the electorate has become weaker. ”
Thinking about the (new) paths of the Latin American left and right in a world in crisis
17 October 2024, by ,We are publishing the foreword written by Franck Gaudichaud and Éric Toussaint at the request of the Cuban magazine Temas for a book coordinated by Julio César Guanche, to be published in Argentina under the title Izquierdas y derechas en America latina.
The Ukrainian left is building on several fronts
27 September 2024, by“The aim here is to shed light on the specific profile of this young left, based on its activist practice at the heart of Ukrainian society and breaking with the dominant contradictory interpretations of the ‘Euro-Maidan’ (2013-2014) that divide the left and are exploited by Putin.”
Marx’s anti-colonialism, new sub-imperialisms and consistent internationalism in a bipolar world
11 September 2024, by ,Kevin B Anderson is a Marxist humanist and Professor of Sociology, Political Science and Feminist studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author and editor of various works, including the forthcoming book The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism and A Political Sociology of Twenty-First Century Revolutions and Resistances: From the Arab World and Iran to Ukraine, Africa, and France (2024). In this interview with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Anderson discusses Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin’s writings on colonialism and imperialism, why the world is becoming more bipolar (rather than multipolar), and the need for a positive and consistent anti-imperialism.
Surrealism as a revolutionary movement
11 September 2024, bySurrealism is not, and has never been, a literary school or an "avant-garde" artistic movement (like Cubism or Fauvism), but a vision of the world, a way of life, and an eminently subversive attempt to re-enchant the world. It is also a utopian and revolutionary aspiration to "transform the world" (Marx) and "change life" (Rimbaud): two identical slogans, according to André Breton. It is an adventure that is at once poetic and political, magical and playful. It began in Paris a hundred years ago, in 1924. It continues today.
Footnotes
[1] Qin Gang Meets with Chief Executive Officer of Tesla Elon Musk,” Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Nigeria, May 30, 2023, http://ng.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/zgxw/202306/t20230604_11089384.htm. Musk responded reciprocally, remarking that “the interests of the United States and China are interlinked, like conjoined twins inseparable from each other.” Later in the year, during the Asian Pacific Economic Conference (APEC) convening in San Francisco, Xi received a standing ovation from many of those same leaders—joined by others from major corporations like Pfizer and Bridgewater—as he proclaimed that “China is ready to be a partner and friend of the US.”.
