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Brazilian politics have been polarized between Lula and Bolsonaro. The urgency to defeat the latter has been invoked to close off critical thinking. However, Bolsonaro embodies social forces that will not go away with an electoral defeat, while an eventual Lula...
In Gill Hart's excellent new book Rethinking the South Africa crisis, she points to a rather curious phenomenon as part of her engagement with the figure of one Julius Malema and the 'populist' turn he represents. She notes that for a change the far left and liberal...
PHIL GASPER argues that Marx’s theory of history is vital for understanding social change, but it doesn’t claim that socialism is inevitable KARL MARX’S key idea, in the words of his collaborator Frederick Engels, was that “the production of the immediate material...
Decades since the spring of 1934 when the Communists first proposed the Popular Front as their strategy for fighting fascism and even longer since the summer of 1939 when it was suddenly terminated by the Hitler-Stalin Pact, the Popular Front—the alliance of the...
Interview with Hamid Taqvaee (Worker-Communist Party of Iran) on the presidential ‘election’ in Iran Kazem Nikkhah: You have said that elections in Iran are a farce though things do happen during each election. Why? Hamid Taqvaee: Calling these events an election is a...