The Iranian Prisoner Solidarity Letter: Some Replies to Critics
New Politics, Summer 2026
McCarthyism Then and Now An Interview with Ellen Schrecker
The Streets Are Asking Questions the Leaders Cannot Answer in Ukraine Adam Novak
Sudan: Liberal Peacebuilding and the Price of Impunity Husam Mahjoub
The Bund: A Committed History Review of Molly Crabapple by Peter Drucker
Russia’s Political Prisoners and the People Who Speak for Them
Italy: The Murderous State, Presumed Innocent Stefanie Prezioso
Doubling Down Finkel reviews Benjamin & Davies on Ukraine
Is Free Speech a Dangerous Idea? By Samuel Farber
History of the International Socialists Review by Alan Wald, memoirs by Harrison & Mackie
We, the undersigned former Iranian political prisoners, activists, writers, artists, intellectuals, academic scholars, researchers, and members of civil society within Iran and in exile, stand resolutely in support of the open letter published in The Guardian on 20 August 2026,
The problem with the critics is not that they insist on the imbalance of power. The imbalance is real. The problem begins when the imbalance is used to give the Iranian state political priority over Iranian society. . . Once
Iranians do not owe anyone a choice between their killers. Neither do Palestinians, Syrians, Kurds, Afghans, or Ukrainians.
Faced with war and escalating domestic instability, the Iranian government has pursued military responses, engagement in diplomacy, and intensifying repression at home.
Victor Serge: Unruly Revolutionary
By: Mitchell Abidor
Pluto Press, 2025
Victor Serge died almost penniless in the back of a taxicab in Mexico City in 1947. He was not yet revered as one of the world’s greatest writers, but he had known some
By: Mitchell Abidor
Pluto Press, 2025
Victor Serge died almost penniless in the back of a taxicab in Mexico City in 1947. He was not yet revered as one of the world’s greatest writers, but he had known some
Samuel Farber defends the concept of free speech from a left perspective, against progressive critics of free speech.
Alan Wald reviews A Collective History of the International Socialists, praising its in-depth insights while calling for more critical perspectives.
Ben Silverman analyzes Trump’s fascist tendencies and the danger of the Trump regime moving towards the level of historical Fascism.
Samuel Barney argues that prison building in rural United States is used as a way to incorporate the precarious rural working class into the state’s repressive apparatus.
The rave reception for Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country is a breakthrough for Jewish radicals. After decades of Zionist hegemony within U.S. Jewish communities, including on the left, suddenly Crabapple’s avowedly, even fiercely anti-Zionist book is
Matt Benson analyzes historic and ongoing dispossession of the Mapuche people’s land, and their resistance against the Chilean state.
A critical examination of Trotsky’s evolving views on revolutionary morality and democracy in revolutionary movements.
The discredit attained by the dominant parties, by the legislature, by the “politicians” and even “politics” itself, defined inaccurately, but viscerally despised by many people, recalls the concept of “organic crisis” advanced by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Authors such
Marking an anniversary of a book’s publication is, appropriately, reserved for books that were widely read when they first appeared many years ago. Books we commemorate with an anniversary are ones that ushered in a new way of thinking and influenced the way society tries to make sense of the world. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community did neither of these things.
Heather Ann Thompson has written a magnificent history of the Attica Prison uprising, the deadliest prison rebellion in U.S. history.
Looking back on nearly 25 years of involvement in the LGBT movement, and 45+ years in the labor movement, I am struck by the way those paths have crossed, intertwined and separated over the long term.
