José Carlos Mariátegui was Latin America’s most original Marxist. And his work is strikingly relevant for confronting the continent’s right-wing backlash today.
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Latin America
Mariátegui’s Heroic Socialism
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Strategy
Why Ecosocialism: For a Red-Green Future
19 December 2018, by Michael LöwyThe capitalist system, driven at its core by the maximization of profit, regardless of social and ecological costs, is incompatible with a just and sustainable future. Ecosocialism offers a radical alternative that puts social and ecological well-being first. Attuned to the links between the exploitation of labor and the exploitation of the environment, ecosocialism stands against both reformist “market ecology” and “productivist socialism.” By embracing a new model of robustly democratic planning, society can take control of the means of production and its own destiny. Shorter work hours and a focus on authentic needs over consumerism can facilitate the elevation of “being” over “having,” and the achievement of a deeper sense of freedom for all. To realize this vision, however, environmentalists and socialists will need to recognize their common struggle and how that connects with the broader “movement of movements” seeking a Great Transition.
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Pakistan
The Left in Pakistan – Historical background and present challenges
16 December 2018, by Farooq TariqFor the first time, The Left in Pakistan has one Member of Parliament. Ali Wazeer belongs to Pakistan Trade Unions Defense Campaign, the group is a part of Left Democratic Front Pakistan. The LDF is not yet formally launched but various efforts are been made to unite the Left forces in Pakistan on one broad based front.
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Fourth International
The Fourth International is 80 years old!
14 December 2018, by Michael Löwyin Amsterdam commemorating the eightieth anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International.
Michael Löwy was the speaker. We reproduce here an edited version of his contribution.
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Europe
One Question:The European Left
4 December 2018, by Benjamin Opratko , Philippe Marlière, Alen Toplišek, Andrew Schapp, Andrzej ?ebrowski, Antonis Vradis, Bice Maiguashca , Catarina Principe, Catherine Samary, Donatella della Porta, Francoise Vergès, G M Tamás, Josep María Antentas, Marco Vanzulli, Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen, Thomas FaziOne Question is a monthly series in which we ask leading thinkers to give a brief answer to a single question.
This month we ask:
What are the challenges and opportunities for the Left in Europe?
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Marxism
One question: Class struggle today
3 December 2018, by Shahrzad Mojab, Adam Hanieh, Cenk Saraço?lu, Charles Umney, Cinzia Arruzza, Dario Azzellini, Demet ?ahende Dinler, Guilherme Leite Gonalves, Immanuel Ness, Jeffery R Webber, Justin Akers Chacón, María Pía Lara, Raju J Das, Terrell CarverOne Question is a monthly series in which we ask leading thinkers to give a brief answer to a single question.
This month we ask:
What does class struggle mean today?
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Spanish state
The long May 68 in the Spanish state
21 November 2018, by Manuel GaríIn the decade from 1964 to 1974, just before the death of the dictator Francisco Franco, time accelerated in the Spanish state. It was the final years of the Franco regime. A time when changes around in the world were multiplying. A time when new experiences were proliferating, led by the political and social left.
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Internationalism
Samir Amin, or the raison d’être of a new internationalism
21 November 2018, by Catherine SamaryAs if he wanted to make it his political testament, in the urgency of a specific “moment”, both for himself and a capitalist globalization in crisis, Samir Amin (re) published his call for the “indispensable reconstruction of an International of the workers and peoples of the whole world”, on the Afrique-Asie.fr site, a few days before his sudden death on August 12, 2018. Appended to this is a “Letter of intention” seeking to accelerate and concretize the process.
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Pakistan
50 Years of the 1968-69 Revolution
21 November 2018, by Lal KhanFifty years ago this land witnessed the most glorious moments of its history. Pakistan’s virgin proletariat and the oppressed classes were storming heavens. They had entered the arena of history and were determined to take their destiny in their own hands. Revolutionary periods are historical exceptions. They don’t occur every day. Such an amazing revolutionary torrent had swept across the country from November 7th,1968 till the fall of the formidable dictatorship of Ayub Khan on March 26th, 1969. It had challenged the state and system and victory of a socialist revolution was on the horizon.
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Fourth International
Livio Maitan: History wrinkle-free
16 November 2018, by Daniel BensaïdDaniel Bensaïd wrote the Preface to Livio Maitan’s history of the Fourth International Per una storia della IV internazionale. La testimonia di un comunista controcorrente published in 2006.
Resistance Books and the IIRE have launched an appeal to fiund publication in English. It has almost reached the first goal of 5,000 euros, thanks to a substantial donation in the form of translation work.
To give an idea of the book, and of the person of Livio, we publish here the English translation of Daniel Bensaïd’s preface.
We hope to raise 1,000 euros more to pay for the design and promotion of the book. Details on how to make a donation can be found below.
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- The Inventor of Big Things: A Tribute to Livio Maitan
- “Fighting sexist and sexual violence means guaranteeing the place of women in the CGT”
- Russia’s New Imperialism
- ’Nobody announces that democracy ends now’
- Marxist strategy in Western Europe
- Class struggle today: Fragmentation and the crisis of political form
- Modern counter-revolution and fascism
- After hyperglobalisation: the capitalist reconfiguration
- An important contribution by Ernest Mandel to the debate on the transition to socialism
- Many Shades of Campism: An Internationalist Critique
- Feminist strike for the socialisation of reproductive labour!
- The imperialism of our time
- Lenin and the Politics of Broken Time
- Global profits: an upward turn?
- Anatomy of a feminist debate: the ambivalences of the notion of femicide
- The impact of colonization and international cooperation on the feminist movement in Palestine
- What is emancipatory about 21st century feminism?
- Searching for international solidarity
- “In Algeria, what is fundamental is the state”
- Against defeatism disguised as radicalism
- Daniel Bensaïd and permanent revolution, old and new questions
- Popular Feminism: The Radical Force Capable of Defeating the Far Right in Brazil
- Transgender socialism
- Non-natalism
- Weaponising Gender: How gender became the perfect scapegoat for far-right and authoritarian actors
- Socialism or Barbarism - On the Eve of the 21st Century
- Ruptures: The New Manifesto of the Fourth International
- Anarchists in wartime. The experience of Solidarity Collectives in Ukraine
- Iran’s regime in a predicament of its own making
- Manifesto for an Ecosocialist Revolution: Possible consequences in the Philippines
- Introduction to the Manifesto for an Ecosocialist Revolution: Work Less, Live Better
- After the 1973 Coup in Chile
- The coup in Chile
- The Chile Coup and after
- The rising class consciousness of the proletariat and the problem of power
- Debate on the counter revolution in Chile (1973)
- Against Campism, for International Working-Class Solidarity
- Free Syria scares Israel, that’s why it sows hatred and occupies
- HTS must reject Assad-era neoliberalism
- Surrealism as a revolutionary movement
- An inflexible intervention for the liberation struggle of the Tamil people!
- Marching to a Different Drummer
- Andreas Malm: "Targeting SUVs or private jets can help struggles »
- Commons: A Ukrainian left-wing collective intellectual
- In Honour of Marijke
- Thank you Marijke! Having met you inspires us to continue..
- Western diplomats offer rotten climate carrot, and wield broken sanctions stick
- International food crisis and proposals to overcome it
- Internationalism, Anti-Imperialism, And the Origins of Campism
- Theoretical and practical conclusions of Marxist feminism
- Tribute to Daniel Bensaïd - a “distant comrade”
- Friedrich Engels and Primitive Communism
- Nancy Fraser: “Cannibal Capitalism” Is on Our Horizon
- Ecological Imperialism and Jair Bolsonaro’s Agenda in Brazil
- Ernest Mandel’s ‘Introduction to Marxist Theory’
- Struggling against Islamophobia without lapsing into Orientalism
- Reda Ibrahim Farag - Egyptian revolutionary Marxist
- Bill Onasch: The life of a Marxist in the American workers movement
- The relevance of the theory of permanent revolution and its topicality
- Rayner O’Connor Lysaght Presente!
- Feminism: women fighting for their rights have always met resistance from male power …
- Marxism and the oppression of trans people
- Trans Liberation and Socialist Feminism
- “What does Rossana say?”
- The History of Women’s Movements in Asia and the Middle East
- Gisèle Halimi: A courageous anti-colonialist and feminist lawyer
- Luis Sepulveda, revolutionary activist and Chilean writer, has died from Covid-19
- Women, race and class in social movements: An extract
- Farewell Comrade Lal Khan
- Thinking and acting from Marxism today - Feminist proposals for a theoretical and strategic rearmament
- Tribute to David Sanders (5 August 1945 – 30 August 2019), Revolutionary humanist and socialist
- Maria José Belo Meca Maranhão
- Change Everything: Foundations and Challenges of the Feminist Strike in Spain
- Nicaragua: The other revolution betrayed
- The Political Economy of Hungary’s New “Slave Law”
- Helena Lopes da Silva (1949-2018)
- Adam Smith and the Yellow Vest Movement.
- A last farewell to Mick Woods
- Fifty years after the revolutions of ‘68
- The spirit of 1968 is inextinguishable – even 50 years later
- Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia: 1968 as the antipodes of 1989
- The Russian Revolution, Black Bolshevichki and Social Reproduction
- The strategic role of the soviets in the class struggle
- On the contribution of the outstanding Hungarian Marxist philosopher István Mészáros (1930-2017) to critical thinking
- After Alienation
- Identity Politics Can Only Get Us So Far
- Queer sexuality, labour and nation
- From the concept of the people to the materialization of a leader?
- Being Brave Because It Is Right
- Voting on Dictatorship
- Lenin and Trotsky confronting the bureaucracy
- World economy: The return of crisis
- Xi Jinping’s China – An extremely complex transition whose outcome remains unpredictable
- Part 3: Argentina - Further Action against Illegitimate Debt
- “The Hammer Blow of the Revolution”
- Remembering the riots of spring 1976 in China
- Newly Independent Greece had an Odious Debt round her Neck
- Origins, dynamics and developments of the revolutionary process
- “Daniel Bensaïd fought to the end against a system that knows no bounds in brutality”
- New capitalist domination and imperialism in Africa
- Capitalism and Gender Oppression
- The Intersectional Conundrum and the Nation-State
- Closing the Conceptual Gap
- The biodiversity crisis and the environmentalist left
- Environment: The foundations of revolutionary eco-socialism
- The state of reproductive rights in 2015
- The social movement for independence and the crisis of the British state
- The European Central Bank’s true priorities
- The big private banks run on LTRO
- South Korea : the miracle unmasked
- “Leaps Leaps Leaps”: Lenin and politics
- LGBT Activism in Mainland China
- The Notion of the Revolutionary Crisis in Lenin
- Remarks on Gender
- The World Bank and the IMF in Indonesia: an emblematic interference
- The World Bank and the Philippines
- Early Soviet Commitment to Environment Protection and its Decline
- United States : the Fed Bails Out Wall Street
- World Bank and IMF support to dictatorships
- Domination of the United States on the World Bank
- Private banks shamefully enjoy a monopoly of lending to the public sector
- Governments make Gifts Galore to Private Banks
- Central Banks lend massively to the banking sector
- The Impunity Enjoyed by the Banks must Stop
- Complicity of Dexia in very serious Human Rights violations in the Israeli occupied territories
- The Big Banks Organise Massive Tax Evasion on an International Scale
- Big banks’ tampering with interest rates
- Drug and Bank Lords
- Banks and the New “Too Big to Jail” Doctrine
- The cancellation of German debt in 1953 versus the attitude to the Third World and Greece
- Why the Marshall Plan ?
- SUNFED versus World Bank
- Early conflicts between the UN and the World Bank/IMF tandem
- The World Bank assists the powerful witch-hunters
- Concerning the founding of the Bretton Woods’ Institutions
- Women and the Early Years of Japanese Communism
- Freedom Summer, 1964: An Overview
- The personal and the political
- James Hansen’s ’exit strategy’ from global warming
- A Fossil Fuel Exit Program
- The roots and grassroots of the Syrian revolution
- Precarity as contraceptive: conversations on the situation of abortion in Spain
- 100th Anniversary of The Woman’s Dreadnought
- Clara Zetkin in the lion’s den – Workers’ unity and feminism at the 1921 Comintern congress
- The Liberation of Women
- "We Shall Overcome": Honoring Pete Seeger
- Luxemburg and Trotsky on Russian Revolution
- An Interview with Alan Sears
- Socialist Feminism – Hidden from Herstory
- The Fourth International and women’s liberation
- The feminist challenge to traditional political organisations
- The forgotten history of the “class struggle feminist” current
- The implications of gender equality at work on female workers from 1968 to the 1980s in France
- The transitional program and the tools to overthrow capitalism
- General Vo Nguyen Giap (1911-2013): Military hero, revolutionary intellectual, environmentalist
- Norman Geras: “An adult life divided into two distinct chapters”
- Idalberto Ferrera Acosta (1918-2013), Cuban Trotskyist
- In women’s liberation the first step is self-consciousness
- For an anticapitalist feminism in the here and now
- Dangerous Liaisons: The marriages and divorces of Marxism and Feminism
- Feminism to the tune of the cumbia, corrida, tango, cueca, samba . . .
- Women and work in Western Europe
- Jean-Michel Krivine (1932-2013): a militant surgeon and an internationalist
- A Marxist Critique of Post-Marxism
- Why socialists need feminism
- The Current Mobilizations over Rape
- A Plea for an Ecological Reconstruction of Marxism
- Struggle for Self-Determination of the Bangsamoro Revolutionary Fronts: A Historical Perspective and Current Realities
- For another difference
- On the question of sexual difference
- Postmodernism and Feminism
- The significance of Occupy
- Francis Fukuyama and the ‘absent left’
- A personal tribute to Dave Packer
- Dave Packer: a tribute
- Gerry Foley: A Life Dedicated to Socialist Revolution
- The Left against Debt-tatorship
- In the eye of the storm: the debt crisis in the European Union
- Che Guevara in Search of a New Socialism
- The crisis of French Marxism
- Strategy and Party
- The spark ignites in the action - the philosophy of praxis in the thought of Rosa Luxemburg
- Marxisms, theory, yesterday and today
- Marxism and Feminism
- The powers of communism
- Seventy years since the formation of the Fourth International
- Has working-class consciousness collapsed?
- Elements of revolutionary strategy
- The Challenge of Revolutionary Democracy in the Life and Thought of Rosa Luxemburg
- Uneven and Combined Development and the Sweep of History: Focus on Europe
- Dialectics and Revolution
- The Marxism of Trotsky’s "Results and Prospects"
- The Mole and the Locomotive
- Marx, Weber and the Critique of Capitalism
- 1993: The nature of social-democratic reformism
- Lessons from a Critical Intellectual
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Spanish state
Anticapitalistas on the calling of the elections: let’s continue the struggle on the streets
October 2026
Pedro Sánchez has announced that he is bringing forward the date of the elections, which will now take place on 29 November. This call for elections comes against a backdrop of major protests over the housing crisis, which have sparked a significant resurgence of mobilisation amongst the left and the working class in the face of a structural problem that is becoming increasingly urgent.
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Sinistra Anticapitalista Summer University: Solidarity, Partners, Ecosocialists
October 2026
“AI, Anti-Capitalist Intelligence”, the third edition of Italy’s Ecosocialist Summer University – organized by Sinistra Anticapitalista and the Livio Maitan Library – ended on Sunday 6 September 2026 with a well-attended debate on the alternative to capitalist barbarism, moderated by Armando Morgia, in which Antonella Bundu (Toscana Rossa), Dario Salvetti (formerly of GKN), Eliana Como (CGIL oppositionist), Luca Scacchi (AMR Controvento), Giulio Calella (Edizioni Alegre) and Francesco Locantore (Gauche anticapitaliste) participated, among others.
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Slovenian trade unions propose referendum to overturn the new government’s anti-social policies
September 2026
The parliamentary elections held in early 2026 in Slovenia resulted in a narrow majority for the right, thereby enabling the formation of a radical conservative government. This government wasted no time in taking steps to undermine the welfare state.
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Statement on the Pakistani State’s Attack on Free Media “Jeddojehad”
September 2026
The Pakistani military establishment had launched an attack on the online Jeddojehad. Its editor, Farooq Suhleria’s, home was raided. He could not be arrested as he was not in the country. But it means he cannot return to his job. Another member of the Editorial Board was also raided. The website has been shut down.
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Open Letter from Sergio Ramirez to President Lula da Silva
August 2026
“Ortega has abolished elections. Do not deny Nicaragua the right to choose freely—the same right that could make you president of Brazil for a fourth time.”
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