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Getting There
An interview with Michael Albert, one of the authors of "Occupy Strategy"
| Stephen R. Shalom May 25, 2013 |
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Michael Albert, Jessica Azulay, and David Marty |
South Africa--The Marikana Massacre and the New Wave of Workers’ Struggle
An Interview with Mazibuko Jara of the South African Democratic Left Front
| Jack Gerson March 27, 2013 |
[This article will be appearing in the summer 2013 issue of New Politics.]
An Essential Anti-Capitalist Primer
| by Victor Osprey | Winter 2013 |
It’s unsurprising why Trotskyists were annoyed by this book. In one section it depicts a bearded and bespectacled leftist intellectual, in an impeccable illustration, lecturing protesters who are engaged in a confrontation with police that: "I’ve come to show you how to fight capitalism." Under his arm, is a book with "Trotsky" emblazoned across the front. In another section, it quotes an appealing looking Trotsky as saying: "The Soviets will be able to continue to function: Anyway, real power is already in the hands of the party.
Anarchist Economics and the Socialist-Anarchist Dialogue
| by George Fish | Winter 2013 |
With the emergence of anarchism as a significant ideology on the contemporary left, the idea of socialist-anarchist dialogue on political issues and socialist-anarchist alliance and cooperation on issues of mutual concern has gained significant currency on the socialist left. Socialist-anarchist alliance was raised rather gushingly by Ursula McTaggart in her article, "Can We Build Socialist-Anarchist Alliances?
Marxism Today: Some Observations
| by Paul Buhle | Winter 2013 |
A new edition of Marxism in the U.S. seems to have come at a propitious historical moment not only for global society but also for phenomena that can still, with many reservations, be called Marxism, Marxist ideas, Marxist-based projects. The particular crises at hand, economic, social, political, and ecological, are so numerous and fast-breaking that headlines are likely to overtake specifics even before words reach print. But crises they are.
Of the People, By the People
| Steve Shalom interviews Robin Hahnel January 14, 2013 |
Robin Hahnel's Of the People, By the People: The case for a participatory economy (Soapbox Press, 2012, distributed by AK press, www.akpress.org) is the latest and most accessible presentation of his argument that a new economy—based on equality, participation, solidarity, and self-management—is both desirable and possible. Originally formulated by Hahnel and Michael Albert more than two decades ago, the model has been continually refined and improved, addressing problems raised by critics.
The Left in Europe: From Social Democracy to the Crisis in the Euro Zone An Interview with Leo Panitch
| by Adaner Usmani | Winter 2013 |
Adaner Usmani: I wanted to begin by asking you about the history that precedes the crisis, and specifically about the evolution of European social democracy. On the one hand we have seen social democratic governments in Greece, France and elsewhere entirely complicit in the evisceration of the welfare state, and in the imposition of austerity. On the other hand, the tradition of which they’re a part brought many benefits to Europe’s working classes.
China: From Bureaucratic Communism to Bureaucratic Capitalism
| Dan La Botz November 20, 2012 |
The election last week of Xi Jinping to the chairmanship of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), together with six others who with Xi constitute the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the party, represents entrenchment of what the Chinese Marxist intellectual Au Loong Yu has called “bureaucratic capitalism.”[1] The bureaucratic capitalists, many of them princelings, that is, sons of the founders of China’s Communist government, have through their control of the state and crony state-corporation relationships come to dominate the heart of the country’s
Michael Lebowitz Tries to Tackle "Real Socialism"—And Misses
| George Fish November 19, 2012 |
Michael A. Lebowitz. The Contradictions of "Real Socialism": The Conductor and the Conducted. New York: Monthly Review Press, 2012. 222 pp., $15.95
Workers' Control: Toward a Revolutionary Transformation
| Dan La Botz November 8, 2012 |
Immanuel Ness and Dario Azzellini. Ours to Master and to Own: Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2011. 443 pages. Notes. Bibliography, Index. Paperback $19.