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The Left: a fundamental historical ambiguity

François Sabado — 2026-10-05T17:14:35Z

The notion of the Left contains a dual dimension. For more than a century, both its opponents and its supporters have agreed in describing the Left as the “party of movement,” the natural gathering place of “all progressive forces” and all advocates of “change.”

- Features / Marxism, Strategy

To what extent is the AfD fascist?

Angela Klein — 2026-10-05T11:03:18Z

The attempt to ostracise the AfD has failed.

- Features / Germany, Far Right, Fascism

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

'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

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

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

For a Global Anti-Fascist and Anti-Imperialist Front

Farooq Tariq — 2026-08-04T09:54:27Z

Haqooq Khalq Party (Pakistan) held an International Anti-Imperialism Conference in Lahore on 3rd May. Some academics from US, Canada, UK participated. I chaired the first session and here is my contribution to the Conference.

- Features / Pakistan, Anti-imperialism