Liam Kruger examines the history and politics of degrowth theory and critiques attempts to synthesise degrowth and Marxism, arguing that they are fundamentally incompatible. He discusses science and labour under capitalism, and contends that a Marxist vision for a communist future is...
Mick Armstrong traces the development of debates on war and militarism in the socialist movement in the lead-up to World War I.
Darren Roso enters the debate on Engels’ contribution to the Second International after the death of Marx.
Ánxel Testas of the Spanish organisation Anticapitalistas discusses recent developments in left-wing politics in Spain.
Anneke Demanuele reviews a book that explores the roots of racism in class society and poses a challenge to identity politics.
Luca Tavan revisits the explosive period of working-class struggle in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and critiques the autonomist ideas that led to the defeat of the movement, and continue to shape the left today.
Mick Armstrong traces the development of Trotskyism in the context of the far left in Australia.
Vashti Fox explains how Stalinism enabled and at times collaborated with fascist movements and states during the 1930s and ’40s, while the Stalinised Communist Parties undermined revolutionary working-class anti-fascism – a history that has important lessons for fighting the far right today.
Duncan Hart examines the concept of the “dictatorship of the proletariat” in its historical context, and argues that Hal Draper was wrong to argue that Lenin’s interpretation was an anti-democratic departure from that of Marx and Engels.
