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Socialism or Barbarism - On the Eve of the 21st Century

United Secretariat of the Fourth International — 2026-02-01T13:18:40Z

This document was adopted by a meeting of the United Secretariat of the Fourth lntematlonal (FI) in 1992. It is the product of months of discussion within that world organization and an extensive pro-cess of rewriting and revision from an original draft proposed before the FI's World Congress in 1991.

- 13th World Congress - 1991 / Marxism, Fourth International, 13th World Congress - 1991, Features

On Ernest Mandel's Contributions

Paul Le Blanc — 2026-01-15T13:52:32Z

“Kellner offers the following critical appreciation: “One hopes that many more people will be inspired by Mandel's verve and let themselves be motivated to live his kind of life, yet without succumbing to ungrounded political confidence or to some of his more questionable ideas.””

- Reviews section / Marxism, Fourth International, Ernest Mandel, Reviews

Eleni Varikas (1949-2026)

Alan Wald — 2026-01-11T17:16:33Z

Eleni Varikas, a revolutionary Marxist-Feminist French-Greek professor of political philosophy, best known for her pioneering use of the concept of gender in French research, died of heart failure in Paris in early January 2026. She was 76 years old and the life partner of Michael Löwy, the French-Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher. Both were contributors to AGAINST THE CURRENT and good friends of its sponsoring organization, Solidarity.

- In Memoriam - Obituaries and appreciations / Marxism, France, Greece, Women

Marx, Marxism, the Left, and Revolution in the Intellectual History of Enzo Traverso

Jaime Pastor — 2025-10-22T15:46:32Z

The original version of this article was published in the digital magazine Pensamiento al margen, 21, pp. 36-51, 2025, an issue dedicated to the intellectual history of Enzo Traverso.

- Features / Marxism

Revolutionary defeatism, yesterday and today

Simon Hannah — 2025-05-08T15:33:07Z

The debate on the Left over the war in Ukraine has exposed serious disagreements on international questions, ones that have been brewing and deepening for over a decade. From 2001 to 2011, there was general unity on the socialist Left about the question of imperialism and the response to it. This was a period of explicit and obvious attacks on sovereign countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq by the United States, United Kingdom, and other imperialist forces. This naked imperialist aggression triggered global mass movements against the so-called “War on Terror.”

- Features / Marxism, Campism

Dreaming as internationalist materialists

2025-05-08T11:37:48Z

“We will begin with a statement: yes, we dream, and we desire! We dream of emancipation, and we desire equality (individual, collective, between peoples).

And we are on the left, a radical and revolutionary left at that. What should be troubling us today is not changing our dreams and desires. Certainly not going poaching on the side of those opposed to us, claiming that “only the far right dreams”.”

- Features / Marxism

To save the environment, we must end the profit system

Ian Angus — 2025-03-03T11:50:45Z

A Portuguese translation of my book, Facing the Anthropocene: Fossil Capitalism and the Crisis of the Earth System, was published in Brazil in 2023. I was subsequently interviewed by Claudia Antunes for the multilingual magazine SUMAÚMA, a radical environmental journal that takes its name from one of the largest trees in the Amazon rainforest. SUMAÚMA published the interview in September 2024. This lightly edited version was published in Monthly Review in January 2025.—Ian Angus

- Features / Marxism, Ecosocialism

Why do socialists organise internationally?

Dave Kellaway — 2024-12-31T17:32:44Z

What are the arguments for eco socialists to be part of a revolutionary international?

- Features / Marxism, Britain, Fourth International

The strategy of transitional demands

Ernest Mandel — 2024-12-31T17:00:35Z

We have particularly highlighted this aspect of the international dimension that every socialist strategy needs because it emerges unequivocally from the experiences and struggles of the European proletariat.

- Ernest Mandel Archive / Marxism, Fourth International, Ernest Mandel

Imperialism as Antagonistic Cooperation

Promise Li — 2024-11-20T20:20:25Z

In 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]

- Features / United States (USA), Brazil, Marxism, Economy, China, Imperialism