The verticality of the 1959 revolutionary process took us by its own logic and dynamism to the extreme authoritarianism and total absence of democracy in today’s Cuba.
Category: Social Policy
Gentrification and Social War
Andrew talks through the organizing reality of confronting housing as both a commodity and a human necessity.
Can Xi Jinping’s “Chinese Model” Supplant Capitalist Democracies and Why Should Western Socialists Care? – Part 3
If Xi’s Chinese-style modernization has shattered the myth that modern-is-Western, then why is his economy still so dependent on Western science and technology?
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Recognizing the Counterrevolution!
Frances Fox Piven reviews and praises Stephen Steinberg’s book Counterrevolution, on the rise of the racist right in the US, attacking the gains made by the Civil Rights Movement.
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Rage Against the Machine
Chicago Democratic Politics and their Contradictions
Guy Miller reviews Gordon K. Mantler’s “The Multiracial Promise,” an account and analysis of Harold Washington’s mayoralty in Chicago in the 1980s.
France: Criminal policing, systemic racism, anti-social policies: supporting a legitimate revolt
The NPA calls on people to mobilize alongside angry young people, to gather in front of town halls, every evening if necessary, to express our rage and our demands.
The Future of Cuba—Part One
What can we learn from the experience of other countries that can help us think about possible futures for Cuba?
The Right to Resist: A Feminist Manifesto
We, feminists from Ukraine, call on feminists around the world to stand in solidarity with the resistance movement of the Ukrainian people against the predatory, imperialist war unleashed by the Russian Federation.
Their Values and Ours: The Debate over Western Values and the Values of the Socialist Left
Where does the Left stand and where should it stand on this question of “Western values”?
Explaining Sri Lanka’s Economic Crisis
The Sri Lankan crisis has its roots in neoliberalism and an unjust global economic order.
The US Supreme Court is Now a Front for Christian Nationalist Minority Rule
Striking down Roe will just be a starting point
U.K. War Resister Reflects On Troubled State of “Veteranhood”
Military service in the U.S. and the U.K. promised more than it ever delivered for many post-9/11 volunteers.
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