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The eruption of violence against Gaza is driven by the immense crisis and contradictions within Israeli society itself.

Praising the crimes of Stalinism: The DSA and the assassination of Leon Trotsky During the past week, numerous prominent leaders of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have posted tweets celebrating the 1940 assassination of Leon Trotsky and portraying the murderer, the Stalinist GPU agent Ramon Mercader, as a hero. Many of the tweets by DSA leaders are illustrated with photos and memes of an alpenstock, the weapon used by Mercader to murder Trotsky. Nickan Fayyazi, a member of the Natio...

Bicentenary of Napoleon’s death: Macron praises Bonapartist police-state rule On May 5, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke on the bicentenary of the death of Napoleon Bonaparte on May 5, 1821, in exile on the island of Saint Helena. Macron with French Army Chief of Staff General Pierre de Villiers in 2017 [Credit: Etienne Laurent/Pool Photo via AP, File] Napoleon, his military genius and the sweep of his political life have been the topic of countless official speeches these two centuries...

Black Lives Matter goes to war with Napoleon and the French Revolution The New York Times championed the 1619 Project, a now-discredited attempt to rewrite all of US history as centered on racial conflict and the first arrival of slaves in America in 1619. The racialist climate it helped stoke has seen petty-bourgeois supporters of Black Lives Matter topple statues of leaders of the 1776 American Revolution and of the anti-slavery forces in the US Civil War. Now, the Times is taking aim at th...

Madunagu On the National Question, By Kayode Komolafe Madunagu has never been an ethnic champion in theory and practice. Edwin Madunagu This attempt to defend Madunagu’s clear position on the National Question is borne out of a study of his revolutionary career. Perhaps, Madunagu’s baptism into the politics of the National Question was as a Mathematics student at the University of Ibadan. In fact, this happened at the pre-Marxian stage of his life. The theme to explore in the virtual confer...

In Defence of Bolshevism Author: Sean Matgamna and Max Shachtman Max Shachtmans Under the Banner of Marxism, which forms the bulk of this book, deserves to be considered one of the classic polemics of the Marxist movement, alongside The Poverty of Philosophy, Anti-Dühring, and others. It defends the Bolsheviks, their revolution, their work to build a revolutionary socialist movement, and the continued relevance of their approach. The British political labour movement is trying to recreate i...

AP/Hatem Ali Strange the way things line up, the through-lines that suddenly reveal themselves amidst the twists and turns of historical progression. Last month, in these pages, I was writing about the ways in which Israel’s ongoing treatment of Gaza and the Palestinians cooped up therein (the strangulating siege, the warehoused concentration-camp-like conditions, the regularly recurrent assaults, the lopsided carnage) put me in mind, not so much of the fate of the Jews and gays and Gypsies i...

Australia’s Capitalist Finance Sector: Deception, Exploitation and Misdirection of Financial Resources by Trotskyist Platform / May 11th, 2021 In recent years, the ripping off of customers, deceit and even outright fraud practiced by Australian finance sector businesses has gained much attention. Four years ago it was revealed how CommInsure, the insurance arm of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), had refused to make promised life insurance payments to heart attack survivors. They “j...

Metro 2036 The Entry into the Promised Land – Mod for Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord Overview -The year is 2036 After saving Anna, Artyom in the safety of Lake Baikal grounded his Colony, it is initially been build around the Aurora(the train which they traversed through Russia) and will expand hopefully… but Artyoms newly founded Colony isn’t the only struggling for survival and….Domination. The vast outskirts of post apocalyptic Russia are home to several Groups of people like… Fac...

Alice Neel, Mike Gold, 1952. © The Estate of Alice Neel Courtesy (Courtesy The Estate of Alice Neel and David Zwirner) Is it time to release Michael Gold from his personal gulag to range free in the pastures of 20th-century American literature? BOOKS IN REVIEW By Patrick Chura Gold—“Mike” to his comrades—was a key figure in American letters from the mid-1920s well into the Great Depression. A leading advocate and practitioner of “proletarian literature,” he was also the edito...