David made this rather hairy comment, which is incorrect in three ways by my count:First and second, the claim about slave self-emancipation is neither post-structuralist nor as recent as 15 years

Hi Richard: Thanks for the link, but when you post a link, could you please motivate it with a line or two? Thanks, Anthony

Double-whammy, US gets rich UK treasure-trove. Welcome to the UK Biometrics Commissioner. "Under UK law the police can retain an individual's DNA profile and fingerprint record for up to three years

I don't wish to defend Kagarlitsky's past political positions. But I think it is simplistic to say that the Donetsk and Luhansk "peoples republics" were "creations of Russian military

This intersection of faith and politics appeals to me. Charles The Institute for Christian Socialism Wants to Bring Left Politics to American Christianity (jacobin.com) Institute for Christian

AN OPEN LETTER ABOUT THE CAPTURE OF NUMSA – TIME TO FIGHT BACK AND SAVE NUMSA FROM THE CAPITALIST – BY CONCERNED MEMBERS, SHOP STEWARDS AND STAFF Numsa has been captured and must be saved and only

How Civil Wars Start : And How to Stop Them, https://www.harvard.com/book/how_civil_wars_start/ , which was widely noted and reviewed a couple months ago in mainstream outlets,

http://links.org.au/imperial-system-in-crisis-claudio-katz

See chapter 6 of the book noted by Michael above, https://archive.org/details/americaconfronts0000will_f4q4/page/104/mode/2up . As an advocate of a “decentralized socialism,” as noted by

Blue MAGA's Big Lie - CounterPunch.org As a Green who just watched the morally bankrupt Dem establishment railroad our stellar Senate candidate off the ballot in North Carolina, this piece really

As Mark L. correctly points out, it is not a question of counterposing "conversion of activists into 'hard-core Marxists", to intervention into "Democrat-dominated political venues". It's not about

On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 04:25 PM, Bradley Mayer wrote: The social revolutionary element of the civil war - the abolition of slavery - was accomplished by Blacks themselves, against the wishes of the

This discussion has actually become more interesting, albeit somewhat centrifugally, than when it started. I totally disagree with the post-structuralist comment by Brad about "...the social

A transcript of the Democracy Now interview mentioned by Andrew Stewart can be found at https://www.democracynow.org/2022/7/1/rebecca_gomperts_prescribing_abortion_pills_abroad

The Republic of Buryatia: invasion of Ukraine is an extension of Russia’s domestic dominance over the country's ethnic minorities Ukrainians and Buryats share a history of Russian abuse by Roman

Documents Reveal Hundreds of Russian Troops Broke Ranks Over Ukraine Orders Desertions and refusal to engage in the invasion have put Moscow in a bind over how to punish service members without

Although Kagarlitsky has recently put some daylight between himself and the Kremlin, imo (like that of the late Louis Proyect) Boris should not be looked to for a revolutionary socialist understanding

A few comments. 1) David Green should be more careful. Black LivesMatter did not receive funding until it had already become an importantmovement and was in the process of becoming a mass movement.

On Sun, Jul 3, 2022 at 06:18 PM, Roger Kulp wrote: You can't tell me if Texas did secede, there would not be people who would offer poor African-American people, immigrants, etc funds to moveThat's a

UkraineSocialist Solidarity Campaign Forum Prelude to 2022: 2014, Russian Annexation of Crimea and the“People’s Republics of Donetsk and Luhansk” Featured Speaker: Simon Pirani Simon is the