Socialism
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Umzebenzi Online: Why Socialism?
Never before in history has the need for a different, a humane world based on the socialist value of putting social needs before private profits been more desperately required. For thousands of years people have worked collectively to build homes and communities, to gather food, herd animals, to harvest crops, to manufacture, to paint, to… Continue reading
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Lenin on Freedom by Roland Boer
Lenin and freedom — it is perhaps a jarring juxtaposition for many. Was not Lenin the harbinger of what is occasionally called the most dictatorial and authoritarian ‘regime’ in history? Is not any discussion of freedom with regard to Lenin a bad joke? Continue reading
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The Next Marx? By John Feffer
he financial crisis and the Occupy movement have convulsed the political spectrum along a different dimension. The political categories of Right and Left—which derives from where opposing representatives, royalists versus radicals, sat in the French national assembly around the time of the 1789 revolution—have been woefully inadequate for some time. Continue reading
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Video: Contracorriente: Discussion with Michael Lebowitz
Cuba — February 2010. View on YouTube website Interview by Aurelio Alonso. Michael Lebowitz is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. Some of his recent books include Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class, Palgrave Macmillan (2003), Build it Now: Socialism for the 21st Century, Monthly Review Press (2006) Continue reading
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Cuba: ‘Information on results of the Debate on the Economic and Social Policy Guidelines for the Party and the Revolution’
12 November2011 — Links International [Once more a ‘progressive’ a site is making people who want to download a public document in PDF format, sign up with Scribd in order to get at it. The OWS ‘newspaper’ did the same thing. I don’t get it? Why not just make it available as a straight-up pdf Continue reading
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Cuba: 'Information on results of the Debate on the Economic and Social Policy Guidelines for the Party and the Revolution'
12 November2011 — Links International [Once more a ‘progressive’ a site is making people who want to download a public document in PDF format, sign up with Scribd in order to get at it. The OWS ‘newspaper’ did the same thing. I don’t get it? Why not just make it available as a straight-up pdf Continue reading
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Book Review: Cooperatives and Socialism in Cuba
This book arises from the urgent need for us to make a modest contribution to the healthy “birth” of the new Cuban cooperativism and its subsequent spread. Continue reading
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Thinking about revolution
As mounting economic insecurity and hardship are making more and more Americans realize, it is time for a revolution in the United States, as well as throughout the world. The attached Call for Democratic Revolution was written to help people discuss how to build a revolutionary movement, and it includes a vision of a new… Continue reading
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A Civil Society Strategy for Revitalizing the Left By Steve D'Arcy
What happened to the North American Left? Why is it that, even now, when capitalism seems so obviously unappealing, unsustainable and unfair, the Left cannot mount a more serious challenge to the Right or its grim austerity agenda? Continue reading
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Britain’s Road to Socialism Part 1 – age of empires By Liz Payne
Capitalism is economically, socially and politically bankrupt. So argues the new edition of Britain’s Road to Socialism (BRS), the Communist Party strategy for a society which puts ordinary people first. Continue reading
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The Left’s Crisis By Leo Panitch
It was indicative of the left’s sorry lack of ambition in the crisis that its calls for salary limits on Wall Street executives and transaction taxes on the financial sector were far more common than demands for turning the banks into public utilities. Continue reading
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Honest and Lucid Criticism for the Western Left By Pascual Serrano, translated by David Montoute
In recent years, a part of the world’s progressive community has begun to equate humanitarian interventions with the internationalist solidarity that has traditionally characterized the Left. “Humanitarian Imperialism” By Jean Bricmont (Monthly Review Press, U.S. 2007) by Belgian author Jean Bricmont aims to dismantle this thinking, and does so with stunning lucidity. Continue reading
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The Ecology of Socialism: John Bellamy Foster Interviewed by Solidair/Solidaire
Many green thinkers reject a Marxist analysis because they think that the Marxist approach to the economy is a very productivist one, focused on growth and seeing nature as “a free gift” to mankind. You contradict that idea. Continue reading
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Video: The Return of Socialism
On June 23, John Nichols, author of The “S” Word: : A Short History of an American Tradition … Socialism, joined Phil Gasper, author of The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History’s Most Important Political Document in Madison, WI for an event to discuss the history of socialism in America and its increasing popularity… Continue reading
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Radical Democracy and Popular Power: Thinking About New Socialisms for the 21st Century
David McNally teaches Political Science at York University, Toronto and is a long-time activist in socialist and global justice movements. Continue reading
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The C-word in Germany By Victor Grossman
Once again it was the annual big weekend for German leftists of every conceivable persuasion. It was also a weekend with tons of slush, the result of weeks of cold and snow now ending in thaw weather, but, in the eyes of most participants, also provided by most of the media. Continue reading
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“21st Century Socialism: the Strategy of the Left and the Latin American Experience.” By Michael Lebowitz and Marta Harnecker
Marta Harnecker and Michael Lebowitz were invited by the N. Poulantzas Institute and Transform Magazine to present lectures on “21st Century Socialism: the Strategy of the Left and the Latin American Experience.” Continue reading
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Pursuing a Just World Order, Crisis for the Left
In this talk, Leo Panitch, drawing on his book In and Out of Crisis (with Greg Albo and Sam Gindin), addresses a lack of ambition on the left which has been more debilitating than its lack of capacity in the current global economic crisis, and outlines the kinds of immediate demands for radical reforms as… Continue reading
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Socialism Is Dead!' Long Live the Commons and Social Accounting! By Tom Walker
While not wanting to downplay either the potentially transformative role of shorter working time or its prospects as a transitional element to a post-capitalist society, there is an important aspect of this issue that both writers appear to have overlooked. The result of shorter working time, increased time at the disposal of the individual worker,… Continue reading
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The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development
Prof. Michael Lebowitz discussing aspects of his book The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development, at the Maritime Labour Center in Vancouver, British Columbia. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 