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MLK: To the Promised Land
28 February 2018, by Charles Williams
Michael K. Honey is the author of the new study, To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice, to be published on the 50th anniversary of King’s April 4, 1968 assassination. He was interviewed by Charles Williams of the Against the Current editorial board. Their discussion of Michael Honey’s earlier book Going Down Jericho Road is here.
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On the death of Carl T Brecker, AIDC Chairperson 1996 – 2006
2 February 2018, by Brian Ashley, MP Giyose
It is with a profound sense of sadness that we at AIDC have heard the news of the passing of Carl Brecker, the first Chairperson of the Alternative Information and Development Centre (AIDC). We send our condolences to his family, especially his devoted daughters Tania and Dee, their children as well as his sister Valerie and her husband Ivan.
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Marxism

The strategic role of the soviets in the class struggle
22 January 2018, by Peter Saxtrup Nielsen
Regardless of one’s opinion on The Russian Revolution and the subsequent development of Russian society, the self-organized workers’ councils – the soviets – remain an important breakthrough. For the most part, the discussion of the centenary of the revolution has conveniently steered clear of this subject. Nonetheless, understanding the soviets and its council structure remains central to understanding both how the revolution came about, and what its goals were. “All power to the soviets”, the slogan went, but what power, and what are soviets actually? These are central questions for any future attempts to change the world.
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On the contribution of the outstanding Hungarian Marxist philosopher István Mészáros (1930-2017) to critical thinking
16 January 2018, by Jan Malewski
István Mészáros, an outstanding Hungarian Marxist philosopher, died on October 1st 2017 in London. Born in Budapest in 1930 into a working-class family, brought up by his mother, he began working in industry at the age of twelve. He actually lied about his age, claiming to be sixteen, in order to be accepted by the factory. Thus, "as an adult", his pay was higher than that of his mother, a qualified employee of the US transnational Standard Radio Company. The considerable difference between their weekly earnings was his first and most tangible experience of the particularly severe exploitation of women by capital. This was in 1942...
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The Only Viable Economy
16 January 2018, by István Mészáros
István Mészáros is author of Socialism or Barbarism: From the “American Century” to the Crossroads (Monthly Review Press, 2001) and Beyond Capital: Toward a Theory of Transition (Monthly Review Press, 1995). This essay is excerpted from his book, The Challenge and Burden of Historical Time: Socialism in the Twenty-First Century (2009).
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After Alienation
16 January 2018, by Daniel Singer
Since the collapse of the Berlin wall and the Soviet Union, many on the left seem to have swallowed the idea that there is no alternative to capitalism. Debate has been limited to what can (or rather cannot) be achieved within its confines. Here is a powerful book with the opposite message: What must be abolished is not only classical capitalist society but the reign of capital as such. Indeed, the Soviet example proves it is not enough to “expropriate the expropriators” if you do not uproot the domination of labor on which the rule of capital rests. An alternative exists, or more precisely, can be forged, provided it is radical and fundamental.
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Sexual Politics

"How We Get Free": Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Lessons of Radical Black Feminism in the Age of Trump
12 January 2018, by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Tasasha Henderson
Forty years ago, a group of radical Black feminists who named themselves the Combahee River Collective released a statement defining their politics and describing their political work. The Combahee River Collective Statement has endured as a powerful document that clearly named the multiple oppressions that Black women faced due to their race, sex, class and sexual orientation; developed the idea of identity politics; and provided a key roadmap of the political work and organizing necessary to uproot all oppression.
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Catalonia

Four theses on the Catalan crisis
5 November 2017, by Miguel Manzane
Thesis 1: The Catalan crisis has been caused by the state apparatus of the Spanish liberal monarchy, with the intention of controlling the political consequences of the economic crisis of neoliberalism.
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Catalonia

Catalonia: Past and Future
3 November 2017, by Luke Stobart
The battle around the October 1 independence referendum — called by the Catalan parliament but banned by Spain’s highest court — has become one of the most dramatic European developments in years.
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LGBTIQ internationalism

Queer sexuality, labour and nation
3 November 2017, by Peter Drucker
Talk at the International Meeting Against Homophobia and Transphobia, Kaos GL, Ankara, 13 May 2017.
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Articles in this section

MLK: To the Promised Land

On the death of Carl T Brecker, AIDC Chairperson 1996 – 2006

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

The Only Viable Economy

After Alienation

"How We Get Free": Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Lessons of Radical Black Feminism in the Age of Trump

Four theses on the Catalan crisis

Catalonia: Past and Future

Queer sexuality, labour and nation

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