Firoozeh Farvardin.  Credits: Irene Graf

Iranian feminism, between war and the regime

Firoozeh Farvardin examines how to oppose the regime without supporting foreign intervention, and how to sustain networks of care, resistance and internationalism from below.
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United States: This summer, DSA enters a new period

There are elections where nothing happens — this is often the case — but every once in a while there are elections where big things happen, contends Neal Meyer.
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Malaysia: Reflections on the Rahang election

A party inspired by ideology does not fade away simply because of electoral losses; our motivation is derived from other, deeper factors, writes S. Arutchelvan.
Kohei Saito in Zagreb, September 2023. Photo by the author.

Kohei Saito on degrowth, Marx and the future of the left

By integrating Marxist principles with degrowth, we can develop strategies that appeal to a broader alliance and a wider movement against the capitalist system and for climate justice, argues Kohei Saito.
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Tying a new knot

Paul Murphy argues the case for Marxists to regroup on the basis of the main programmatic and strategic questions of the day as well as a common conception of how a revolutionary group should function.
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‘Capital’ Volume 1: Themes from Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology’

Jason Devine contends that Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology of Mind’ was the foundation for both Marx’s first major writing and his initial foray into a dialectical critique of political economy.
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US-supervised globalisation, China’s rise and the imperialisms of our time: An interview with Benjamin Bürbaumer

Benjamin Bürbaumer discusses why capitalism leads great powers to resort to coercion, how Western Europe became integrated into US capitalism, and whether China could displace a declining US with a new Sino-centred capitalism.

India’s Cockroach movement shows when people stand up against corruption and authoritarianism, they can win

Manish Kumar discusses the recent powerful expression of youth dissent against the Narendra Modi government and next steps for the Cockroach movement.
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The Cockroaches: A new insecure class in struggle

The cockroach movement’s great structural strength was also its great vulnerability, contends Sankha Subhra Biswas.
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South Africa’s shifting political terrain

The arrival of uMkhonto weSizwe, March and March and allied groups on the political stage is not just a matter of new forces emerging — it is part of an ongoing and rapid reconfiguration of the field, argues Richard Pithouse.
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March separately, strike together: Xenophobia, working-class fragmentation and strategic crossroads

The fight against xenophobia cannot be separated from rebuilding working-class organisation, write Rehad Desai and Luke Sinwell.
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Cuba: Where is the Russian oil? The truth that Moscow silences

Russia says it is Cuba’s strategic ally. But Russian oil is not arriving. Eduardo Miguel Álvarez Estévez looks at why.