
Historically Compromised
Aldo Moro’s murder on May 9, 1978 blocked the Italian Communists’ route to government and ushered in an age of political fragmentation.

Aldo Moro’s murder on May 9, 1978 blocked the Italian Communists’ route to government and ushered in an age of political fragmentation.

How Ramparts went from Catholic literary magazine to the vanguard of the New Left.

How the Green Party wunderkind transformed German capitalism, and with it, himself.

With far-right forces on the rise across Europe, Ada Colau’s progressive administration in Barcelona shows how local government can be a base of resistance.

Today in Bulletin: Could globalization end with a whimper? … Christian Democracy in the USA … China’s Marxist millennials … and more.

We joined the New Communist Movement because we were serious about changing the world. It taught us much about how to organize — and how sectarianism ruins everything.

Ecuador’s president Lenin Moreno was elected to continue Correa’s Citizens' Revolution — but has set about dismantling it instead.

The Communist Party of Finland was founded 100 years ago today. Its fate was tightly wound up with the Soviet Union across the border.

Once ubiquitous in working-class communities, labor schools have succumbed to decline. Their history holds lessons for any future revival of working-class activism.

In the new memoir of Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of France's Front National, the powerful currents of resentment and authoritarianism that animate the far right are well on display.

What it means that a far-right fascist sympathizer is a leading candidate in Brazil's presidential election this Sunday.

In 2015, a wave of social movements lifted left-wing mayors to power in Spain. Their experience in office shows the importance of linking institutional power to bottom-up mobilization.

The Left must be clear that there is a small minority of elites who control the world, enrich themselves, and immiserate the many. But it’s not Jews — it’s the rich.

Until recently, Spain was uniquely free of neofascism. Not anymore.

Figuring out how to fight for state power and popular power at the same time is tough. The work of Nicos Poulantzas shows how socialists in the twenty-first century can do it.

Forget about Love Actually. This holiday season, take a trip back to Black Christmas, 1974's secretly feminist horror film that spawned a generation of slashers after it.

The Social Democrats have collapsed. Die Linke is divided. Will the German left ever be able to contend for power?

Parts of the business press have painted the Italian Democrats’ new leader as a local Jeremy Corbyn or Bernie Sanders. They’re being too kind.

Work in the twenty-first century sucks. But it’s not because of a new “gig economy” — it’s because work under capitalism always sucks.

The far-right EKRE party tripled its vote in this month’s Estonian elections. It could soon be in coalition government — and Estonia might start looking like Viktor Orbán's Hungary.