Rupert Murdoch’s NY Post made a splash on July 24 with an article titled “de Blasio quotes Karl Marx in WNYC radio interview”. This red-baiting exercise begins: First it was Che Guevara — now it’s Kar

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Astra Taylor talks with Rutgers faculty union president Todd Wolfson about organizing academic communities in the age of COVID-19. http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/todd-wolfson-astra-taylor-be

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The Second Wave of the COVID-19 Counterrevolution On the ruling class strategy in the current conjuncture, its inner contradictions and the perspectives of the workers and popular resistance By Michae

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Spectre editor Kate Doyle Griffiths reflects on Kim Moody’s rank and file strategy in this first part of a three-part essay. In subsequent installments, they will consider the rank and file strategy i

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I am the book review editor for Socialism and Democracy. I am looking for someone to review The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography, by Marcello Musto, Stanford University Press, 2020.

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Daniel Tutt writes on German Marxist Ernst Bloch’s engagement with the Islamic scholar Ibn Sina and its potential for revitalizing materialist philosophy. The Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch was margi