Kevin B Anderson is a Marxist humanist and Professor of Sociology, Political Science and Feminist studies at University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author and editor of various works, including the forthcoming book The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism and A Political Sociology of Twenty-First Century Revolutions and Resistances: From the Arab World and Iran to Ukraine, Africa, and France (2024). In this interview with Federico Fuentes for LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal, Anderson discusses Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin’s writings on colonialism and imperialism, why the world is becoming more bipolar (rather than multipolar), and the need for a positive and consistent anti-imperialism.
Surrealism as a revolutionary movement
11 September, bySurrealism is not, and has never been, a literary school or an "avant-garde" artistic movement (like Cubism or Fauvism), but a vision of the world, a way of life, and an eminently subversive attempt to re-enchant the world. It is also a utopian and revolutionary aspiration to "transform the world" (Marx) and "change life" (Rimbaud): two identical slogans, according to André Breton. It is an adventure that is at once poetic and political, magical and playful. It began in Paris a hundred years ago, in 1924. It continues today.
“Frank conversations and the search for consensus are crucial for rebuilding Hong Kong’s future democratic movement”
12 August, byIn these challenging times, Loong-yu Au, a labour researcher, thinks that frank conversations and the search for consensus are crucial for rebuilding Hong Kong’s future democratic movement.
Advancing Our Own Politics in 2024: For Socialist Support of the Green Party
9 August, byAs socialists how should we approach the 2024 presidential election? The two major parties, ideologically capitalist to their cores, present us with a choice between a neoliberal corporate militarist and a neofascist criminal maniac.
Local Communities and Labor Movements Under Threat in Sakartvelo: Interview with Left Activists
9 August, byIn April-May 2024, tens of thousands of Georgians took to the streets to protest against the new "Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence," which was finally passed by the parliament on May 28th, overturning the presidential veto. This law requires NGOs that receive more than 20% of their funding from abroad to declare themselves as "foreign agents." Why did the proposal of this law cause such massive demonstrations? What are the social and political issues at stake behind the confrontation between the NGO sector and the Georgian state? How is the geopolitical competition between Russia and the West reflected in the local context, and are the Georgian protests somewhat comparable to the Ukrainian Maidan?
’Unify the political left without sidestepping the needed debates!’
9 August, byBernard Rioux reflects on his five decades on Quebec’s radical left
“We worked hard, but joyfully”
9 July, byIn its June issue our French-language sister publication Inprecor celebrated fifty years of regular publication. At the launch in 1974 Inprecor was published in the three languages of the International (and in German as Inprekorr). However in English and in Spanish for different reasons the publication has not been continuous and today alongside French (Inprecor) there are two online magazines International Viewpoint and Punto de Vista Internacional.
The archives of the Fourth International at La Contemporaine in Nanterre
9 July, by“The long-awaited inventory of the archives of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI) deposited at La Contemporaine has now been completed. It will soon be available online on Calames, the digital catalogue of higher education archives.”
Zabala for Socialism - Building Towards a Movement for Socialism
26 March, by“Another world is possible – a joyful, creative, new world which emancipates us all from oppression and frees us all from exploitation, and where we live in harmony with nature and one another. This is socialism! This is worth fighting and sacrificing for.”
The Tyranny of State Productivism – On the 2024 China’s People’s Congress
21 March, by“So the People’s Congress has done a great job, again, in reminding the people that with Xi Jinping as their leader no one should worry about anything – he is so good at eliminating problems by eliminating those who report the problems, as the Chinese saying goes.”
