Sam Marcy Illustration by German artist Herbert Sandberg for 1967 edition of The Communist Manifesto. The Communist Manifesto was first published on Feb. 21, 1848. This appreciation was written on its 135th anniversary in 1983 by Sam Marcy, a leading Marxist thinker and fighter of the second half of the twentieth century. Of all the…
Category: Communism
Marx and the Indigenous
John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark and Hannah Holleman Volume 71, Issue 9 (February 2019) #NoDAPL by the Palestinian artist, Leila Abdelrazaq. The “turn toward the indigenous” in social theory over the last couple of decades, associated with the critique of white settler colonialism, has reintroduced themes long present in Marxian theory, but in ways that…
ANWO Presentation to the African People’s Socialist Party 2020 Plenary
The Plenary of the African People’s Socialist Party is an annual gathering of member organizations of the Uhuru Movement. During the Plenary, organizations and departments report on their work as it relates to forwarding the revolutionary trajectory making the African revolution. As an organization created by the Party, ANWO has a responsibility to report on…
Huey P. Newton and Martin Luther King Jr.: Revolutionary Love and Unity
Archishman Raju Both Newton and King sought to create a united front for peace and socialism. “Both refused to be dogmatic and creatively synthesized ideas to apply them in their struggle.” We live in times of change, in a world where protest and rebellion but also confusion and anarchy define politics. A new world is…
Lenin: How to Oppose an Unjust War
Greg Butterfield The Leninist view of how to fight against imperialist war remains one of the most controversial and defining characteristics of the communist movement, because it means standing up to the capitalist class at the moment its fangs are bared. Why do we think it’s important to study what Russian revolutionary V.I. Lenin wrote…
I Believe that Socialism is the Key to a Better World
Gloria Verdieu From a talk by Gloria Verdieu at Queen Bee’s Art and Cultural Center in San Diego. Verdieu shared the stage with poets from the San Diego / Tijuana reEvolutionary Poets Brigade at an evening of “Poetry, Education, and Voter Registration.” Thank you, Jim for inviting me to speak at this important event. A…
The Russian Revolution Changed the World Forever
Stephen Millies Vladimir Lenin giving a speech to the Red Army in Sverdlov Square, Moscow, May 5, 1920. On the right of the platform is Leon Trotsky, commander of the Red Army. One-hundred-and-two years ago on Nov. 7, 1917, workers and peasants overthrew the capitalist government in Russia. Two million soldiers in the Russian army…
A New Revolutionary Subject
Marta Harnecker and Tassos Tsakiroglou This exchange between Marta Harnecker and Greek journalist Tassos Tsakiroglou was conducted in advance of the conference on 150 Years of Marx’s Capital: Reflections for the Twenty-First Century, held in Athens in January 2017. The interview first appeared in the Greek newspaper Efmerida ton Syntakton. What follows is a revised…
The Rise of the Right
John Bellamy Foster and Farooque Chowdhury Kalispera Dell, CC BY 3.0, Link. The following interview of Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster, completed on August 5, 2019, was conducted by Farooque Chowdhury for Kolkata’s famous socialist magazine Frontier Weekly and is slated to appear this month in their special Autumn issue. It was thus originally…
How the Chinese Revolution Changed the World
Sheila Xiao On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong declared an earth-shaking victory: the Chinese Communist Party had prevailed in the country’s long civil war and China was now a People’s Republic committed to the construction of socialism. Those still loyal to the reactionary, pro-imperialist Kuomintang party led by Chiang Kaishek fled to Taiwan. China and…
Women, Class, and Identity Politics: Reflections on Feminism and Its Future
Martha E. Gimenez It is always necessary to distinguish between the material conditions of production [and, I add, reproduction]…and the ideological forms in which men become conscious of this conflict and fight it out. —Karl Marx1 I In her rightfully celebrated 1969 article, “The Political Economy of Women’s Liberation,” Margaret Benston articulated several of the…
Che Guevara: A Singular Letter
María del Carmen Ariet García This article is taken from volume 8 of the journal Paradigma, Anuario Institucional del Centro de Estudios Che Guevara, dedicated to the Socialist Transition in Cuba, which will be presented soon. The letter to which reference is made appears in the book “Epistolario de un tiempo. Letters 1947-1967”. “I write…
