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Revolutionary Strategies on a Heated Earth
Christian Zeller follows up on David McNally and Gareth Dale’s dual-power perspective on ecosocialist strategy in the context of the recent extreme heatwaves.
“Those Who Are Poor, Die Poor”
Jeffrey R. Webber makes sense of the election of Boric in the context of October’s social explosions in Chile.
The Necessity of Taking Back the Streets
Warren Montag probes the limits of current DSA strategy in the context of the American far right’s revival. What can the organization do under these conditions?
Coming Home from the Mines
Robert Ovetz reflects on the centenary of the Kansas wildcat coal strikes, considering the role of the Amazon Army and reflecting on lessons to be drawn from this labor history.
Moments of Truth
The struggle for Palestinian liberation isn’t an optional part of a socialist program; it’s an obligatory part of any anti-imperialist politics today.
Upticks, Waves, and Social Upsurge
Kim Moody explores the significance of Striketober 2021: what it means and, just as importantly, what it doesn’t.
Counterrevolution in Sudan
Magdi el-Gizouli discusses October’s military coup in Sudan and contextualizes the resistance to it in the wake 2018–19 movement.
Caught Between the Two Superpowers
Brian Hioe discusses how the international left should relate to Taiwan, a country caught between the two superpowers.
What Was Chinese Trotskyism?
Taking Wang Fanxi’s analysis of Chinese Trotskyism as his point of departure, Promise Li argues that recovering dissident Marxisms is essential for the contemporary project of challenging bureaucratic cooptation of working-class struggles.
Continuous Crisis in Lebanon
Over a year after the explosion in Beirut, Joseph Daher explains why Lebanon’s neoliberal sectarian parties are likely to maintain their hegemony.