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Syria

Militarization, military intervention and the absence of strategy
21 November 2011, by Gilbert Achcar
I was able to attend the meeting of the Syrian opposition that was held on October 8-9 in Sweden, near the capital Stockholm. A number of male and female activists operating in Syria and abroad joined with prominent figures from the Syrian Coordination Committee (SNC - who had come from Syria for the event) in the presence of the most prominent member of the Syrian National Council – its president, Burhan Ghalioun.
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Marxism in China

China studies Marxism: twelve pro-capitalist lines
9 November 2011, by Ian Parker
Capitalism in China is rapidly uprooting and throwing into the market-place all that seemed fixed and fast frozen since the revolution in 1949 but, as with all other forms of capitalism, this market is all but free. The bureaucracy holds in place systems of authority necessary for capital accumulation, and the Chinese state is a key player in the enrichment of a new bourgeoisie. There are particular political-economic and ideological conditions for this transition, of course, and one of the most important is the legacy of Maoism, and how the claim to be a socialist country is squared with the rapid abandonment of each and every tenet of socialism.
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Occupy Wall Street

The Stones Cry Out: The Power of the Occupation in the City Square
9 November 2011, by Dan La Botz
Where does the tremendous power of the occupation of city spaces, particularly the square, come from? The occupation of Tahrir Square in Cairo brought down the Mubarak dictatorship, the indignados in assembly in the plazas shook the Spanish authorities, and Occupy Wall Street and its offspring across the United States have frightened city and state governments setting off a wave of police repression and state violence. The pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in Beijing in 1989 led the Chinese Communist Party to send in the army, killing hundreds, perhaps thousands. What is the threat and what is the power inherent in the occupation of city spaces?
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Debt crisis

In the eye of the storm: the debt crisis in the European Union
26 October 2011, by Éric Toussaint
In July-September 2011 the stock markets were again shaken at international level. The crisis has become deeper in the EU, particularly with respect to debts. The Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM) interviewed Eric Toussaint about various facets of this new stage in the crisis in a seven-part interview published initially on their website.
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Economic crisis

Latin America and the global crisis
24 September 2011, by Claudio Katz
The effect of the world crisis in Latin America requires three types of discussion: the immediate economic effect, the long-run political effect and the social measures required to confront the financial collapse.
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Guevara

Che Guevara in Search of a New Socialism
24 September 2011, by Michael Löwy
IN AN ARTICLE published in 1928, José Carlos Mariátegui, the true founder of Latin American Marxism, wrote: “Of course, we do not want socialism in Latin America to be an imitation or a copy. It must be a heroic creation. We must inspire Indo-American socialism with our own reality, our own language. That is a mission worthy of a new generation.” His warning went unheard. In that same year the Latin American communist movement fell under the influence of the Stalinist paradigm, which for close to a half century imposed on it an imitation of the ideology of the Soviet bureaucracy and its so-called “actually existing socialism.”
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France

The crisis of French Marxism
18 July 2011, by Daniel Bensaïd
This article was first published in English in "International Marxist Review" No 14, Winter 1992.
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On the state

1980 - Historical Materialism and the Capitalist State
12 July 2011, by Ernest Mandel
“Historical materialism elevates the principle of the dialectical relationship between the particular and the general, which reveals the essence of phenomena, to the theoretical foundation of the dialectical understanding of history.”- Leo Kofler, Geschichte und Dialektik
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Daniel Bensaïd

Strategy and Party
5 July 2011, by Daniel Bensaïd
This is based on the transcription of a talk Daniel Bensaïd gave at the Fourth International youth camp in Barbaste, France in July 2007. The subheadings have been added.
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Marxism

The spark ignites in the action - the philosophy of praxis in the thought of Rosa Luxemburg
20 May 2011, by Michael Löwy
In his presentation of Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach (1845), which he published posthumously in 1888, Engels described them as “the first document in which is deposited the brilliant germ of the new world outlook”. Indeed, in this little text Marx surpasses dialectically – the celebrated Aufhebung: negation/conservation/elevation – the preceding materialism and idealism, and formulates a new theory, which we could describe as the philosophy of praxis. While the French materialists of the eighteenth century insisted on the need to change material circumstances so that human beings could change, the German idealists affirmed that, thanks to the formation of a new consciousness of individuals, society would be changed.
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Militarization, military intervention and the absence of strategy

China studies Marxism: twelve pro-capitalist lines

The Stones Cry Out: The Power of the Occupation in the City Square

In the eye of the storm: the debt crisis in the European Union

Latin America and the global crisis

Che Guevara in Search of a New Socialism

The crisis of French Marxism

1980 - Historical Materialism and the Capitalist State

Strategy and Party

The spark ignites in the action - the philosophy of praxis in the thought of Rosa Luxemburg

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