Socialism
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Lenin: The Immortal Science of Liberation
There is something poetic about the fact that one of the earliest full-length biographies of Lenin in English was written not by a loyal communist, but by a defector who had once shared rooms with revolutionaries and later found refuge in the empire Lenin swore to destroy. David Shub’s Lenin: A Biography (1948) is a… Continue reading
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War and Revolution: Memory, Survival, and the Arsenal of the Twentieth Century
Domenico Losurdo’s excavation of the revolutionary century dismantles the Black Legend, exposes Western Marxism’s allergy to power, and reclaims history as a weapon against empire. This review reads his work as both book and battlefield, a guide for revolutionaries who refuse to inherit only defeat. Continue reading
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Why is There a Growing Interest in Socialism?
At the invitation of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Friends of Socialist China co-editor Carlos Martinez attended the World Socialism Forum, held in Beijing from 9-10 September 2024, alongside delegates from China, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, Russia, Brazil, Zambia, Ghana, Lebanon, Switzerland, Italy, Denmark and several other countries. Keynote speakers included Zhen Zhanmin (Vice… Continue reading
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Venezuela Today: Revolution and Elections
Hugo Chávez changed the way socialists viewed elections around the world. The left had long been skeptical about them. The main arguments were that elections are not a terrain on which the socialist left can compete or make bids for power, both because of the grip of capitalist ideology over the masses, and because of… Continue reading
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F*ck the Parliamentary Vote! Build a Worker-Based Anti-War Movement!
As activists in Canada recently learned, mass protest cannot compel a government to reject war. Why is this so, and what is the alternative? Continue reading
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Uneven Earth’s September readings
Once a month, we put together a list of stories we’ve been reading: news you might’ve missed or crucial conversations going on around the web. We focus on environmental justice, radical municipalism, new politics, political theory, and resources for action and education. Continue reading
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Talking “MAGA Communism”, US mulling sanctions on China, and Russia’s warning to the West
Wednesday, 14 September 2022 — Chronicles of Haiphong LIVE at 9PM eastern, 6PM Pacific Danny Haiphong Watch here: Continue reading
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Capitalism Created the Climate Catastrophe; Socialism Can Avert Disaster. The Thirty-Fifth Newsletter (2022)
In November 2022, most member states of the United Nations (UN) will gather in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm El Sheikh for the annual UN Climate Change Conference. This is the 27th conference of the parties to assess the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, commonly referred to as COP 27. The international environmental treaty… Continue reading
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Eco-Socialism, Democratic Communism: Common Sense
More than fifty years after Commoner wrote those words, the environmental problem is almost infinitely worse and what is presently called climate change once thought to affect future generations is engulfing the entire planet right now. While warnings from a scientific community not on corporate payrolls grow more desperate the global political power of capitalism,… Continue reading
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UK: Everything you need to know about the law change to highway obstruction
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act has changed the law on highway obstruction. With campaigners regularly arrested for blocking roads, it is essential everyone knows about these changes and what they mean. Continue reading
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The Perennial Seeds of Zapata
Industrial agriculture has increased global food production over the past century while accruing disproportionate economic and societal benefits for industrialized nations. Across North America, these benefits have primarily been achieved by increasing production efficiencies, issuing extravagant corporate subsidies, and engaging in widespread habitat destruction that has transformed about half of the contiguous United States into… Continue reading
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Socialist economic development – a review
I recently participated in a zoom seminar to review a new book entitled Socialist Economic Development in the 21st Century by Alberto Gabriele and Elias Jabbour. Gabriele is a Senior Researcher at Sbilanciamoci, Rome, Italy and Elias Jabbour is an Assistant Professor at the School of Economics, at Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil. Continue reading
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A forgotten revolutionary: Thomas Spence on saving the commons
Thomas Spence (1750-1814) is all but forgotten today, but at the time of the French Revolution he was one of the best-known thinkers and activists in the left-wing of the radical democratic movement in England. In Red Round Globe Hot Burning, Peter Linebaugh describes him as “the most consistent among the common communists of the 1790s.” His… Continue reading
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Africa was at the centre of Lenin’s work
Marxism, we are told, is Eurocentric and has lost much of its appeal in the eyes of many scholars and activists. Some have even denounced Marxism as a racist theory, irrelevant to the study of Africa. Vladimir Lenin is implicated in this critique. In a far-reaching study of Lenin’s ideas, Joe Pateman argues Lenin placed… Continue reading
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We Will Build the Future: A Plan to Save the Planet
Under the leadership of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – People’s Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP), Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research partnered with 26 research institutes from around the world to draft A Plan to Save the Planet. This living, evolving document puts forward a vision for the present and the immediate future… Continue reading
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Beyond the Capitalist Paradigm of Destruction: Generative Chaos
I believe that this leap, with our participation, especially the victims of the exploitation of capitalism, can occur and would be within the possibilities of the history of the universe and the Earth: from the current destructive chaos, we can move on to generative chaos of a new way of being and inhabiting planet Earth. Continue reading
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Food Sovereignty: A Manifesto for the Future of Our Planet
Food Sovereignty is a philosophy of life. It offers a vision for our collective future, and defines the principles around which we organize our daily living and co-exist with Mother Earth. It is a celebration of life and all the diversity around us. It embraces every element of our cosmos; the sky above our heads,… Continue reading
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Marxism in Africa (1975)
First of all, we must understand the background for this kind of debate. When one is asked to speak of the relevance of Marxism to Africa at this particular point in time one is being asked to involve oneself in a historical debate, an ongoing debate in this country, particularly among the Black population. It… Continue reading
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Book Review: Practicing the Good: Desire and Boredom in Soviet Socialism
In a recent article, Maria Chehonadskih (2021) argues that the adjective ‘Soviet’ is today used as a `floating signifier’ either embracing totalitarian connotations of the Soviet State or positively referring to the event and legacy of the Russian Revolution. While appreciating the first decade after the Revolution as a period of avant-garde experimentation, Western Marxists… Continue reading
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Reflections on Cuba’s Black Radical History, Revolutionary Health, and Grassroots Media
Radicals, revolutionaries, and freedom fighters committed to imagining and building new societies must demonstrate a willingness to experiment with our strategies. Media, education, healthcare, and governance policies are important arenas where movements and masses materialize political visions. The Black Radical tradition on the continent and in the Diaspora provides strong references in this regard. Cuba… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 