Lance Selfa and Paul D’Amato, in a response to an article by Paul Le Blanc, offer their analysis of why the ISO dissolved after more than 40 years. The passage of time has a way of clarifying issues that seemed so fraught and confusing in the heat of the moment. […]
Sharon Smith analyses the causes and consequences of the collapse of the International Socialist Organization in 2019.
Antonis Davanellos is a leading member of the Greek socialist organization International Workers’ Left (DEA). DEA had close, collaborative relations with the ISO until the latter’s disollution. Davanellos wrote the following assessment not long after the ISO’s final national convention held in February 2019, which he attended as an invited […]
“Although we are in essential agreement with Marx’s theory as it applied to the very specific economic relationships he analyzed, we know that his analysis must be extended further in order for us to understand our specific economic situation as Black women.” —the Combahee River Collective Statement, 1977 1 “The […]
Us history is full of examples of how revolutionaries abandoned their project and dissolved into reformist organizations. Max Shachtman’s Workers’ Party is one historical example.
Antonis Davanellos analyses the political situation in Greece following the parliamentary elections last July, which saw the return of the right to power, the defeat of Syriza, and the failure of Left.
Bhaskar Sunkara, The Socialist Manifesto: A Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality, Verso, London, 2019.
Ian Birchall, in a chapter from his book Bailing Out the System, examines the history of European social democracy and its practical and theoretical limitations.
In what was originally a public presentation at a Socialism conference, Lance Selfa looks at origins of Maoism and its international impact.
Many of Gramsci’s concerns as an active revolutionary are those he took with him into prison as the leader of the Communist Party and throughout his life: combating the determinism of Second International Marxism, and emphasizing the importance of human agency in transforming society.
