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More than just a “Spring”: the Arab region’s long-term revolution
The Arab regime is immersed in a long-term revolutionary process that pits youth-led movements against authoritarian rulers and neoliberal capitalism explains Gilbert Achcar, in an interview that first appeared in ROAR magazine on November 8. When in late 2018 the people of Sudan took to the streets demanding an end […]
Max Shachtman and the Workers’ Party—from class independence to Democratic Party liberalism
The example of Max Shachtman and the Workers Party (WP) is an instructive example of how committed revolutionaries can be coopted by the Democratic Party. The Workers’ Party, founded in 1940 as a split away from the Socialist Workers’ Party, evolved from an organization strictly opposed to the Democratic Party […]
Principles, strategy, culture, and revolutionary organization
This article first appeared as a document in ISO preconvention bulletin #43, February, 2019. It more or less accurately predicts that the then-current trajectory of the ISO could lead to its liquidation into the DSA/Democratic Party. Though the ISO collapsed before this outcome came about, a month after this article was […]
A day to give thanks?
THE THANKSGIVING myth is intertwined with this country’s origin myth. Puritans fleeing religious persecution in England landed on Plymouth Rock in 1620 in search of freedom. Indians helped them plant corn and survive. They made a compact that is the basis of our first constitution, and they held a feast, […]
Introducing the International Socialism Project
We live in a time of peril and promise. The crises that face our world can seem overwhelming. An impending climate catastrophe. A global emergency of refugee displacement and migration. Wars rendering whole countries unlivable. The imposition of vicious austerity measures that have robbed working people of their rights and […]
What happened to the International Socialist Organization?: A political assessment
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. […]
Did a “rape coverup” destroy the ISO?
Sharon Smith analyses the causes and consequences of the collapse of the International Socialist Organization in 2019.
The crisis in the ISO
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 […]
Black feminism and intersectionality
“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 social democracy and the Marxist left
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.
Greece after Tsipras: a left defeated, the right in power, and the new offensive
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’s Socialist Manifesto
Bhaskar Sunkara, The Socialist Manifesto: A Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality, Verso, London, 2019.
Bailing out the System: Reformist Socialism in Western Europe
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.
The rise and fall of Maoism
In what was originally a public presentation at a Socialism conference, Lance Selfa looks at origins of Maoism and its international impact.
