Issue #105

Summer 2017

Issue contents

Top story

Hadj-Ali Abelkader: A Muslim Communist in the 1920s

Ian Birchall

Editorials

Trump's first 100 days

Lance Selfa

Features

Fighting for reproductive rights in the age of Trump

Sharon Smith
Trump and the crisis of the neoliberal world order

Ashley Smith
The Russian Revolution

Phil Gasper
New Opportunities for Québec's Left

Benoit Renaud

Interviews

Immigration policy under Trump

Justin Akers Chacón interviewed by Lance Selfa and Ashley Smith

Hadj-Ali Abelkader: A Muslim Communist in the 1920s

By Ian Birchall

The relations between Muslims and revolutionary socialists have often been problematic. A few years ago in France there was bitter controversy in the Nouveau Parti Anticapitaliste when a Muslim woman who wears the hijab...

Editorials

US Politics and Society

Trump's first 100 days

This issue of the ISR coincides with the ritual evaluation of the “first 100 days” of the new US president that the media have performed since the 1930s. In almost every other modern administration, that “100...

Features

Gender and Sexuality

Fighting for reproductive rights in the age of Trump

By Sharon Smith

Donald J. Trump is committed to: ■ Nominating pro-life justices to the US  Supreme Court. ■ Signing into law the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would end painful late-term abortions nationwide. ■...

Trump and the crisis of the neoliberal world order

By Ashley Smith

The neoliberal world order of free-trade globalization that the United States has pioneered since the end of the Cold War is in crisis. The global slump, triggered by the 2007 Great Recession, has intensified...

The Russian Revolution

The Russian Revolution in October 1917,1 led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin, is the most important event in history for revolutionary socialists. For the first time, a revolution led by the working class won...

New Opportunities for Québec's Left

By Benoit Renaud

Québec has been the scene of tremendous struggle against neoliberalism and imperialism over the last few years. Students shut down colleges and universities for several months in a massive strike in 2012. Three years...

Interviews

Immigration policy under Trump

Justin Akers Chacón interviewed by Lance Selfa and Ashley Smith

Justin Akers Chacón is an activist, writer, and educator in the San Diego–Tijuana border region. He is a professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Diego City College. His previous work includes...

Issue #105

Summer 2017

Reproductive rights in the age of Trump

Issue contents

Top story

Hadj-Ali Abelkader: A Muslim Communist in the 1920s

Ian Birchall

Editorials

Trump's first 100 days

Lance Selfa

Features

Fighting for reproductive rights in the age of Trump

Sharon Smith
Trump and the crisis of the neoliberal world order

Ashley Smith
The Russian Revolution

Phil Gasper
New Opportunities for Québec's Left

Benoit Renaud

Interviews

Immigration policy under Trump

Justin Akers Chacón interviewed by Lance Selfa and Ashley Smith

Editor's Choice

Defending abortion rights

Sharon Smith

ON SUNDAY, May 31, Dr. George Tiller was shot to death while attending services at the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kansas. Tiller was one of the few physicians who still performed late-...

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The myth of Lenin's elitism

Paul D'Amato

WITH FEW exceptions, Western historians have presented the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin as an extreme elitist, if not an autocrat. This elitism, they argue, first emerged in a work he...

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