Peng Lifa disappeared into the clutches of Chinese security forces in Beijing after he unfurled banners off a bridge with slogans attacking the autocracy of President Xi Jinping. But his daring act—and his manifesto calling for mass action to achieve democracy—have stirred hope for change and a discussion of strategy among Chinese on the mainland and around the world.
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China
Courage at Sitong Bridge
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Hong Kong
After the fire: Against “burnism”
4 July, by Zi-yuet“Hongkongers’ struggle for bargaining power against Beijing cannot be premised on the futile appeal to Western governments to intervene on Hong Kong’s behalf, because such an outlook can only result in despair and despondency.”
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Hong Kong
After the fire: Fallen flowers
4 July, by Zi-yuet“It may be more convenient and less demanding for ordinary laypeople to cede agency to leaders than to learn to surmount the challenges of self-organisation and democratic procedure themselves. However, taking responsibility as a member of a community to achieve its self-determination, through regular and direct participation in collective decision-making processes, is what is required for democracy to exist.”
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Hong Kong
After the fire: Soil in spring
4 July, by Zi-yuet“The Hong Kong government has made clear that it will not waver from its stewardship of Hong Kong’s neoliberal crony-capitalist system, and as long as that system remains in place, labour disputes will continue to arise as a symptom of the dysfunction inherent to capitalism.”
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Campism
Internationalism, Anti-Imperialism, And the Origins of Campism
21 April, by Dan La BotzI began this paper as a contribution to discussions in the Internationalism from Below Group, whose members’ criticisms helped to improve it. I finished it with help from the editors of New Politics. Special thanks to Steve Shalom for his comments. I alone, however, am responsible for this version of the essay.
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Russia
Russian Imperialism and Its Monopolies
21 April, by Michael PröbstingIt is widely accepted that the accelerating rivalry between the great powers—the United States, China, the European Union, Russia, and Japan—is a key feature of world politics and will remain so for the foreseeable future. This makes it urgent for progressive forces to have a clear view on the character of the powers involved, which in turn requires a concrete analysis of the political, economic, and military features of these powers that goes beyond a denunciation of the reactionary domestic and foreign policy of their respective governments. [1] Unfortunately, large sectors of the left do not take a principled position of opposition to all imperialist powers. Rather, they display some kind of sympathy or even support for China and Russia and recognize only the old Western powers as imperialist. [2] In the case of China, a number of “communist” intellectuals and well-known journals like Monthly Review not only deny the Stalinist-capitalist character of its regime but shamefully glorify it as a kind of “socialism.” [3]
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Interview with Alain Krivine
“We must start a new May 68”
16 March, by Alain Krivine, Israel Dutra, João MachadoIn an unprecedented interview, Alain Krivine, one of the leaders of the French 68, reconstructs the events that set his country alight that year. (2018)
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Marxism
The United Front in the Revolutionary Marxist Tradition
13 February, by João Machado“But we must be very clear about the fact that to have unity, a good unity in elections, the conditions are much more restrictive than to have unity, a good unity, in a strike for example.”
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Russia
How the Russian Left Survived in a Post‑Soviet World
12 January, by Ilya BudraitskisAfter the demise of the USSR on December 26, 1991, the Russian left had to find its place in a society transformed beyond recognition. In the face of huge challenges, its activists have led important struggles against the system established by Yeltsin and Putin.
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The story of the modern left movement in Russia begins in the late 1980s, during the era of perestroika. From the very beginning it carried a contradictory combination of two political tendencies of the late Soviet period: popular (...) -
Globalization
Globalization from Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan until today
12 January, by Éric ToussaintIn this study, Éric Toussaint covers the period from the 15th to the 21st century, focusing on the dramatic effects of capitalist globalisation.
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- Internationalism, Anti-Imperialism, And the Origins of Campism
- Theoretical and practical conclusions of Marxist feminism
- Tribute to Daniel Bensaïd - a “distant comrade”
- Friedrich Engels and Primitive Communism
- Nancy Fraser: “Cannibal Capitalism” Is on Our Horizon
- Ecological Imperialism and Jair Bolsonaro’s Agenda in Brazil
- Ernest Mandel’s ‘Introduction to Marxist Theory’
- Struggling against Islamophobia without lapsing into Orientalism
- Reda Ibrahim Farag - Egyptian revolutionary Marxist
- Bill Onasch: The life of a Marxist in the American workers movement
- The relevance of the theory of permanent revolution and its topicality
- Rayner O’Connor Lysaght Presente!
- Feminism: women fighting for their rights have always met resistance from male power …
- Marxism and the oppression of trans people
- Trans Liberation and Socialist Feminism
- “What does Rossana say?”
- The History of Women’s Movements in Asia and the Middle East
- Gisèle Halimi: A courageous anti-colonialist and feminist lawyer
- Luis Sepulveda, revolutionary activist and Chilean writer, has died from Covid-19
- Women, race and class in social movements: An extract
- Farewell Comrade Lal Khan
- Thinking and acting from Marxism today - Feminist proposals for a theoretical and strategic rearmament
- Tribute to David Sanders (5 August 1945 – 30 August 2019), Revolutionary humanist and socialist
- Maria José Belo Meca Maranhão
- Change Everything: Foundations and Challenges of the Feminist Strike in Spain
- Nicaragua: The other revolution betrayed
- The Political Economy of Hungary’s New “Slave Law”
- Helena Lopes da Silva (1949-2018)
- Adam Smith and the Yellow Vest Movement.
- A last farewell to Mick Woods
- Fifty years after the revolutions of ‘68
- The spirit of 1968 is inextinguishable – even 50 years later
- Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia: 1968 as the antipodes of 1989
- The Russian Revolution, Black Bolshevichki and Social Reproduction
- The strategic role of the soviets in the class struggle
- On the contribution of the outstanding Hungarian Marxist philosopher István Mészáros (1930-2017) to critical thinking
- After Alienation
- Identity Politics Can Only Get Us So Far
- Queer sexuality, labour and nation
- From the concept of the people to the materialization of a leader?
- Being Brave Because It Is Right
- Voting on Dictatorship
- Lenin and Trotsky confronting the bureaucracy
- World economy: The return of crisis
- Xi Jinping’s China – An extremely complex transition whose outcome remains unpredictable
- Part 3: Argentina - Further Action against Illegitimate Debt
- “The Hammer Blow of the Revolution”
- Remembering the riots of spring 1976 in China
- Newly Independent Greece had an Odious Debt round her Neck
- Origins, dynamics and developments of the revolutionary process
- “Daniel Bensaïd fought to the end against a system that knows no bounds in brutality”
- New capitalist domination and imperialism in Africa
- Capitalism and Gender Oppression
- The Intersectional Conundrum and the Nation-State
- Closing the Conceptual Gap
- The biodiversity crisis and the environmentalist left
- Environment: The foundations of revolutionary eco-socialism
- The state of reproductive rights in 2015
- The social movement for independence and the crisis of the British state
- The European Central Bank’s true priorities
- The big private banks run on LTRO
- South Korea : the miracle unmasked
- “Leaps Leaps Leaps”: Lenin and politics
- LGBT Activism in Mainland China
- The Notion of the Revolutionary Crisis in Lenin
- Remarks on Gender
- The World Bank and the IMF in Indonesia: an emblematic interference
- The World Bank and the Philippines
- Early Soviet Commitment to Environment Protection and its Decline
- United States : the Fed Bails Out Wall Street
- World Bank and IMF support to dictatorships
- Domination of the United States on the World Bank
- Private banks shamefully enjoy a monopoly of lending to the public sector
- Governments make Gifts Galore to Private Banks
- Central Banks lend massively to the banking sector
- The Impunity Enjoyed by the Banks must Stop
- Complicity of Dexia in very serious Human Rights violations in the Israeli occupied territories
- The Big Banks Organise Massive Tax Evasion on an International Scale
- Big banks’ tampering with interest rates
- Drug and Bank Lords
- Banks and the New “Too Big to Jail” Doctrine
- The cancellation of German debt in 1953 versus the attitude to the Third World and Greece
- Why the Marshall Plan ?
- SUNFED versus World Bank
- Early conflicts between the UN and the World Bank/IMF tandem
- The World Bank assists the powerful witch-hunters
- Concerning the founding of the Bretton Woods’ Institutions
- Women and the Early Years of Japanese Communism
- Freedom Summer, 1964: An Overview
- The personal and the political
- James Hansen’s ’exit strategy’ from global warming
- A Fossil Fuel Exit Program
- The roots and grassroots of the Syrian revolution
- Precarity as contraceptive: conversations on the situation of abortion in Spain
- 100th Anniversary of The Woman’s Dreadnought
- Clara Zetkin in the lion’s den – Workers’ unity and feminism at the 1921 Comintern congress
- The Liberation of Women
- "We Shall Overcome": Honoring Pete Seeger
- Luxemburg and Trotsky on Russian Revolution
- An Interview with Alan Sears
- Socialist Feminism – Hidden from Herstory
- The Fourth International and women’s liberation
- The feminist challenge to traditional political organisations
- The forgotten history of the “class struggle feminist” current
- The implications of gender equality at work on female workers from 1968 to the 1980s in France
- The transitional program and the tools to overthrow capitalism
- General Vo Nguyen Giap (1911-2013): Military hero, revolutionary intellectual, environmentalist
- Norman Geras: “An adult life divided into two distinct chapters”
- Idalberto Ferrera Acosta (1918-2013), Cuban Trotskyist
- In women’s liberation the first step is self-consciousness
- For an anticapitalist feminism in the here and now
- Dangerous Liaisons: The marriages and divorces of Marxism and Feminism
- Feminism to the tune of the cumbia, corrida, tango, cueca, samba . . .
- Women and work in Western Europe
- Jean-Michel Krivine (1932-2013): a militant surgeon and an internationalist
- A Marxist Critique of Post-Marxism
- Why socialists need feminism
- The Current Mobilizations over Rape
- A Plea for an Ecological Reconstruction of Marxism
- Struggle for Self-Determination of the Bangsamoro Revolutionary Fronts: A Historical Perspective and Current Realities
- For another difference
- On the question of sexual difference
- Postmodernism and Feminism
- The significance of Occupy
- Francis Fukuyama and the ‘absent left’
- A personal tribute to Dave Packer
- Dave Packer: a tribute
- Gerry Foley: A Life Dedicated to Socialist Revolution
- The Left against Debt-tatorship
- In the eye of the storm: the debt crisis in the European Union
- Che Guevara in Search of a New Socialism
- The crisis of French Marxism
- Strategy and Party
- The spark ignites in the action - the philosophy of praxis in the thought of Rosa Luxemburg
- Marxisms, theory, yesterday and today
- Marxism and Feminism
- The powers of communism
- Seventy years since the formation of the Fourth International
- Has working-class consciousness collapsed?
- Elements of revolutionary strategy
- The Challenge of Revolutionary Democracy in the Life and Thought of Rosa Luxemburg
- Uneven and Combined Development and the Sweep of History: Focus on Europe
- Dialectics and Revolution
- The Marxism of Trotsky’s "Results and Prospects"
- The Mole and the Locomotive
- Marx, Weber and the Critique of Capitalism
- 1993: The nature of social-democratic reformism
- Lessons from a Critical Intellectual
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Footnotes
[1] See on this Michael Pröbsting, “Great Power Rivalry in the Early Twenty-first Century,” New Politics (No. 67, Summer 2019). See also Michael Pröbsting, Anti-Imperialism in the Age of Great Power Rivalry. The Factors Behind the Accelerating Rivalry Between the U.S., China, Russia, EU and Japan (RCIT Books, 2019); this book can be read online or downloaded for free here.
[2] See the special issue of Monthly Review: “New Cold War on China” (July-August 2021). For a critique of such an approach, see Michael Pröbsting,, Servants of Two Masters. Stalinism and the New Cold War Between Imperialist Great Powers in East and West, July 2021.
[3] For a Marxist analysis of China’s capitalism and its rise as an imperialist power, see Michael Pröbsting, “China’s Emergence as an Imperialist Power,” New Politics (No. 57, Summer 2014). See also an essay by Michael Pröbsting in the second edition of The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, Immanuel Ness and Zak Cope, eds. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020); other works on this issue can be accessed on this sub-page.
Pakistan
A Brief Report of Labour Relief Campaign Pakistan for ESSF
November 2022
“The Labour Relief Campaign also organised a Climate Justice rally in Lahore with over 2000 in attendance on 30 September 2022, to raise awareness about different aspects of the climate justice campaign. It also demanded the suspension of Pakistan foreign debts.”
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Lula’s victory on October 30 is the Brazilian people’s only chance
The battle of a country
October 2022
“The sense of urgency is widespread. In this sacred hour, the militant vanguard, those still standing in spite of the times.”
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Posle on mobilization: what to expect and what is to be done
September 2022
“The mobilization announcement looks like a desperate step and a challenge for a regime that had relied on mass depoliticization.”
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Update on strike movement in Britain
September 2022
“The material reality of the attack on working class living standards is cutting through the pomp and circumstance.”
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Solidarity with Ukrainian and Russian resistance to the war
Statement of 37th Fourth International youth camp
August 2022
“We will stay in solidarity with our Ukrainian comrades and with our Russian comrades to contribute to the defeat of the Russian invasion in any way we can and help rebuild an independent and democratic Ukraine.”
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