Why Kautsky Was Right (and Why You Should Care)
Karl Kautsky’s vision for winning democratic socialism is more radical, and more relevant, than most leftists care to admit.
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When Socialists Won Women’s Suffrage
Contrary to the myth that socialists have always ignored gender oppression, women’s suffrage was first won by socialist feminists — and working-class revolt.
How to Build a Socialist Foreign Policy
Our hopes for a socialist United States are constrained as much by US empire as they are by domestic capitalists. But democratic socialist candidates like Bernie Sanders can combat militarism in the service of workers across the world.
The Worst Diplomat in the World
Jair Bolsonaro’s chief foreign policy architect is combining rabid nationalist rhetoric with pathetic submissiveness to the United States.
Oliver Stone Goes Nuclear
We talk to legendary director Oliver Stone about his new film Nuclear Now, what he thinks about his critics, and why he sees nuclear energy as a key solution to climate change.
Georgia’s Clownish Mikheil Saakashvili Is the Perfect Embodiment of Post-Soviet Capitalism
Ousted from the Georgian presidency in 2013, Mikheil Saakashvili bizarrely moved his anti-Putin crusade abroad, as he became governor of Ukraine’s Odessa region. His recent return to Georgian politics is the latest in a series of quixotic antics — but also expresses the essential shallowness of liberal democracy in the post-Soviet space.
Gambling with the Euro
Freeing Greece from its neoliberal straitjacket will require exiting the euro.
North Korea, Without the Hacks
Most US reporting on North Korea is inaccurate fluff produced by self-serving careerists. But a new book finally shows how to do it right.
The Mueller Report Won’t Bring Down Trump
After months of frenzied speculation and breathless commentary, Robert Mueller has turned in his report. But the political landscape some said it would upend is basically unchanged.
A Woman’s Place Is in the Revolution
Rosa Luxemburg is rightly recognized for her enormous contributions to the international socialist movement. Yet the pivotal role that many other women played in the German Revolution is all too often ignored.
From Reform to Revolution
Rosa Luxemburg saw the fight for social reform as a vital means of mobilizing the oppressed. Yet only revolutionary transformation could make their victories permanent.
Assessing Robert Conquest
Historian Robert Conquest was a fierce critic of Stalinist brutality, but Cold War anticommunism hampered his scholarship.
Germany’s New Far Right
In Germany, a "modernized" far right is marrying neoliberalism and racism. What will be the Left's response?
Warping History
Timothy Snyder's Black Earth misuses the horrors of the Holocaust in the service of Zionist and neoconservative platitudes.
Mike Davis on the Crimes of Socialism and Capitalism
We’ve heard for decades that socialism has a body count. But how does it compare to capitalism? Mike Davis discusses Stalin, Mao, and the staggering holocausts of capitalism’s nineteenth-century heyday.
The Dynamite Under Norway’s Class Compromise
Norway has become famous for its social harmony and relatively generous welfare system. But the social-democratic compromise we know today doesn’t owe to some eternal national character — rather, it was a product of the revolutionary struggles of the interwar period.
Nikki Haley Was No Different
After resigning as UN ambassador, Nikki Haley was hailed as a moderate voice in Donald Trump’s administration. That's absurd: she was just as belligerently pro-war as the rest of Trump’s appointees.
Lessons From the Arab Spring
Far from ending in defeat, the Arab Spring inaugurated a long-term revolutionary process in the Middle East.
Chernobyl: The Show Russiagate Wrote
HBO's Chernobyl isn’t the show this event deserves.