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Stalinism's Failures Vindicate Trotsky's Critique

Livio Maitan — 2026-09-03T04:24:06Z

On the anniversary of the founding of the Fourth International the publication for the first time in English of this text by Livio Maitan.

- Features / Marxism, Fourth International

The Bund: A Committed History

Peter Drucker — 2026-08-19T07:56:39Z

The rave reception for Molly Crabapple's Here Where We Live Is Our Country is a breakthrough for Jewish radicals. After decades of Zionist hegemony within U.S. Jewish communities, including on the left, suddenly Crabapple's avowedly, even fiercely anti-Zionist book is on the New York Times bestseller list.

- Reviews section / Marxism, Historical events and figures

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

Lenin and the Politics of Broken Time

Daniel Bensaïd — 2026-07-13T09:45:02Z

This essay by Daniel Bensaïd remains one of the sharpest engagements with Lenin's political thought from within the revolutionary Marxist tradition. Bensaïd identifies Lenin's enduring contribution not as an organisational technique or a party model, but as a philosophy of political time: an understanding of history as fractured, uneven, and shot through with crises that open and close with brutal speed.

- Daniel Bensaïd archive / Marxism, Daniel Bensaid, Features

Affordability or Crisis of Social Reproduction?

Kim Moody — 2026-05-29T13:24:55Z

“Right now, we are seeing an upswing in left and progressive movement activity in the fight against Trump, with No Kings Day, May Day Strong, and Anti-ICE activity, as well as significant union growth, tenants' unions, and the proliferation of union reform caucuses (among others). But there is the danger that—like the short-lived upsurge around Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, and the resistance during Trump's first term in office—much of this activity will burn out for lack of solid grassroots organization, only to leave another trail of undemocratic advocacy NGOs and a tiny number of socialist “electeds” swimming against the current in the Democratic Party.”

- Features / United States (USA), Marxism, Women, Economy

The Self-Emancipation of Workers and the Oppressed: Lessons from the German and Spanish Revolutions

Uraz Aydin — 2026-05-20T07:13:13Z

“‘The emancipation of the working class will be the work of the workers themselves'. I consider this proposal to be the most fundamental rupture, the most decisive turning point between the conception of socialism borne by Marxism and all the revolutionary thought that preceded it.”

- Features / Marxism, Turkey, Kurdistan

Relaunching the Battle of Ideas on the Italian Left

Salvatore Cannavò, Stéfanie Prezioso — 2026-05-20T07:12:26Z

Italy's hard right lost its March 2026 judicial-reform referendum — yet Fratelli d'Italia remains the country's leading party, and sovereigntism the dominant ideological vector. Salvatore Cannavò argues that the Italian left is structured around three distinct tendencies (liberal, radical-democratic, socialist) and that only the socialist or class-based component is in genuine disarray. He proposes recombining socialist ideas — ecosocialism, self-management, the Paris Commune legacy — with (…)

- Features / Italy, Marxism

The Role of CPB-ML Since August 5, 2024: A Marxist-Leninist Analysis

Badrul Alam — 2026-05-01T07:16:37Z

The Communist Party of Bangladesh (Marxist–Leninist), or CPB-ML, has re-emerged in a new light following the mass upheavals of August 5, 2024. Rooted in Dhaka and drawing on deep traditions of left-wing militancy and peasant struggle, CPB-ML's role since this pivotal moment has taken on strategic significance—especially when analyzed through Leon Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution and Antonio Gramsci's concept of hegemony and the war of position. This article explores how a (…)

- Features / Marxism, Bangladesh

Daniel Bensaïd and permanent revolution, old and new questions

Pierre Rousset — 2026-04-24T09:39:53Z

Expanded and revised version of the contribution presented at the Bensaïd Seminar organised in Amsterdam by the Fourth International on 3, 14 and 15 January 2012, at the premises of the International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE)

- Daniel Bensaïd archive / Marxism, Fourth International, Daniel Bensaid, Features