A large part of the left often seems ashamed of having at one time defended egalitarian politics. The extent to which many left-wing leaders go to pretend that they have never defended these politics, or that they are not to much of an irritant the economic powers-that-be, has led them to adopt ways of intervening in politics with people and parties that was characteristic of those on their right.
There is a great deal of talk about the need for debate and discussion on the left. However, very little of it ever actually takes place. This is why the July 27 Haymarket Books online debate on “The Relevance of the Russian Revolution Today” was so important.
Discussions with some part of the (mostly) western left are extremely disillusioning. There are some points in their positions which are the most disillusioning and partially – hypocritical and/or cynical.
An exchange between two Jacobin writers on the question of military aid to Ukraine.
Every socialist interprets the past considering arguments they want to make in the present. But it’s also true that one can’t just “cut history to fit a model,” especially if that history doesn’t even explain the past.
The International Socialist Project is pleased to republish an article by Sam Farber in response to a new book by Eric Blanc, Revolutionary Social Democracy. Working Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882-1917).
Our common movement can only benefit from a comradely discussion among those who are both committed to building broader struggles and opposed to the dead end of lesser evilism.
Tactical proposals on how to advance the movement are only valuable if there exists an organization and militants to carry them out. Individual activists lack the striking power and impetus of an organization.
While most articles on the ISP website address issues of interest to the broader socialist left, the following contribution provides a critical assessment of the International Socialist Organization’s (ISO) dissolution that is especially relevant to former ISO members. François Laforge is a research scientist at Princeton University. He has been […]
In light of the trajectory of Sen. Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic Party primaries, the socialist left will have to come to terms with what it ventured and what it gained in the last two years. As they assess the Sanders campaign, socialists will disagree with one another. Hopefully […]
The following document appeared in ISO preconvention bulletin #13, January 2019 in response to a proposal by Todd Chretien that the ISO initiate a process of launching a “new socialist party.” In it, I argued that though there were plenty of opportunities for collaboration and joint work on the Left, […]
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 […]
Bhaskar Sunkara, The Socialist Manifesto: A Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality, Verso, London, 2019.
