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The Inventor of Big Things: A Tribute to Livio Maitan

Gregor Benton — 2026-09-16T12:47:00Z

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.

- Features / Italy, Fourth International, Historical events and figures, Features

“Fighting sexist and sexual violence means guaranteeing the place of women in the CGT”

Fanny Gallot, Raphaëlle Manière — 2026-09-11T19:34:44Z

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 (…)

- Feminism / France, Women, Trade unions/workplace organizing, Features

Russia's New Imperialism

Jean Batou — 2026-09-11T19:18:16Z

“A fascinating and highly topical book, which deserves to be read without fail.”

- Reviews section / Russia, Reviews, Features, Imperialism

'Nobody announces that democracy ends now'

Can Koçak, Ian Parker — 2026-09-07T12:50:49Z

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.

- Features / Turkey, Features, Fascism

Marxist strategy in Western Europe

Antoine Artous, Daniel Bensaïd — 2026-08-17T07:27:15Z

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.

- Daniel Bensaïd archive / Marxism, Daniel Bensaid, Features

Class struggle today: Fragmentation and the crisis of political form

Sushovan Dhar — 2026-08-17T06:32:06Z

It 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.

- Features / Marxism, Features

Modern counter-revolution and fascism

Norbert Holcblat — 2026-08-17T06:29:53Z

We 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?

- Features / Features, Fascism

After hyperglobalisation: the capitalist reconfiguration

Diogo Machado and Alexandre Abreu — 2026-08-01T15:42:27Z

Crises of capital accumulation, from the 1970s to the 2008 financial crisis, combined with the emergence of new powers, shape capitalist and imperialist policies.

- Features / Economy, Features, Imperialism

An important contribution by Ernest Mandel to the debate on the transition to socialism

Éric Toussaint, Ernest Mandel — 2026-08-01T14:43:25Z

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).
At the Cubans' request, two foreign Marxist economists joined the (…)

- Ernest Mandel Archive / Economy, Ernest Mandel, Features

Many Shades of Campism: An Internationalist Critique

Amir Kianpour, Morteza Samanpour — 2026-08-01T10:13:31Z

Contemporary capitalism is shifting into a war conjuncture: as the world market fractures, rivalries among geo-economic powers intensify, often to the point of outright military confrontation, while militarization spills beyond the battlefield into political governance and everyday life. In this context, the historical necessity of renewing an internationalism becomes ever clearer, especially as local conditions are increasingly mediated by globalized processes and absorbed into the vortex of the global war regime.

- Features / Features, Anti-imperialism