Trump’s Manufactured Crisis
By pulling out of the Iran deal and reimposing sanctions, Trump has invented a crisis that could push the United States toward war.
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It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
It's not just Trump — nuclear weapons are tools of genocidal power, no matter who controls them.
Syriza and the Radical Break
Syriza’s leadership is operating under difficult conditions. How should we interpret its actions, and what would an alternative look like?
Iran Is Not a Threat, Trump Is
Trump’s eagerness to wage war against Iran is reckless, irrational — and murderous. Iran is simply not a threat.
Building Worker Power on the Docks
Dock workers in San Francisco and Durban, South Africa, have huge amounts of strategic leverage in the global economy. Both have long used that power not just to fight for better wages, but also to fight imperialism and racism.
Soldiers of Fortune
In the 1970s American mercenaries traveled to Angola and Rhodesia, seized by racist, anticommunist dreams and delusions of grandeur.
How to End Empire
Economic crisis alone won’t end US imperialism. Only a political threat from below can do that.
Beyond Electoral Democracy
The radical democracy of the future requires more than just elections. We need a legislature by lot.
A New European Narrative
Syriza needs mobilized support to defeat its creditors — and the far right.
The Week That Stopped Brazil
The strike that paralyzed Brazil last week didn't come from the Left, but from an ignored and isolated group of workers.
What Revolutionary Socialism Means to Me
The revolutionary socialist vision is a vital one. Today’s rising socialist movement shouldn’t discard it.
Labor and Management Have Nothing in Common
The UAW based its campaign to unionize Volkswagen around the German labor movement’s “social partnership” model. It was the wrong approach — and ended in disaster.
Honduras Is a Mirror for All of Latin America
Honduras has been under a decade of dictatorship, its 2009 coup heralding a reactionary tide throughout Latin America. Internationalist, anti-imperialist solidarity is desperately needed.
The Unity Trap
In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks, a renewed movement against racism in Europe is desperately needed.
Lebanon’s Spectacular Economic Collapse
After 2008, Lebanon’s oligarchic elites engineered a financialized boom that fueled inequality and lined the pockets of bankers. Now its economy has imploded, leaving the country’s working class to foot the bill.
When Workers Stopped Seattle
The Seattle General Strike of 1919 is a forgotten and misunderstood part of American history. But it shows that workers have the power to shut down whole cities — and to run them in our interests.
What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
Frederick Douglass, 1852: "What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim."
The Beatles and the Revolutionaries
Peter Jackson’s Get Back, the latest revisionist Beatles product, has glimpses of the political moment that made the band possible — and how distant we are from it today.
Domenico Losurdo (1941–2018)
Domenico Losurdo was an acute critic of liberal hypocrisy and double standards in history writing.
A Soldier for Peace
The life of French General Jacques Pâris de Bollardière shows how the strongest voices against war and militarism can come from the military’s own ranks.