Issue #107

Winter 2017–18

Issue contents

Top story

States of inequality

Sharon Smith

Features

Workers’ organizations  in the Russian Revolution

Amy Muldoon
Clara Zetkin and the struggle against fascism

John Riddell and Mike Taber
Hal Draper's contribution to revolutionary Marxism

Joel Geier
The case for an independent Left party

Howie Hawkins
Unequal exchange

Barry Finger

Interviews

A novel retelling of the October Revolution

China Miéville interviewed by Todd Chretien
Revolution, counterrevolution, and imperialism in Syria

Yassin al-Haj Saleh interviewed by Ashley Smith

Upcoming Articles

The Russian Revolution revisited

Ahmed Shawki

States of inequality

By Sharon Smith

Amid the shock and horror following Donald Trump’s election, mainstream news outlets all sounded the same alarm: White workers had gotten their “revenge.” The headlines were stunningly similar: “How Trump Won:...

Features

Social Movements

Workers’ organizations  in the Russian Revolution

“By becoming accustomed to self-management, the workers are preparing for that time when private ownership of factories and works will be abolished, and the means of production, together with the buildings erected...

Social Movements

Clara Zetkin and the struggle against fascism

By John Riddell and Mike Taber

The following article is the introduction to a newly-published collection Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win by the German Marxist Clara Zetkin (Haymarket Books, 2017).

Hal Draper's contribution to revolutionary Marxism

Fifty-one years ago the Berkeley Independent Socialist Club published Hal Draper’s The Two Souls ofSocialism.1 Of the hundreds of radical pamphlets published in the 1960s, Two Souls has had...

US Politics and Society

The case for an independent Left party

By Howie Hawkins

If the 13.2 million votes received by self-styled “democratic socialist” Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries accomplished nothing else positive, it put the questions of socialism and independent...

Unequal exchange

By Barry Finger

Books discussed in this article Zak Cope Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Kersplebeded, 2015 • 460 pages • $24.95 John Smith ...

Interviews

A novel retelling of the October Revolution

China Miéville interviewed by Todd Chretien

China Miéville is the multi-award-winning author of many works of fiction and nonfiction. His fiction includes his latest, The Last Days of New Paris, as well as The City and the City...

Revolution, counterrevolution, and imperialism in Syria

Yassin al-Haj Saleh interviewed by Ashley Smith

Yassin al-Haj Saleh is one of the pivotal figures in the Syrian Revolution. He has a long history of activism in the country. Arrested by the Syrian regime in 1980 for the crime of political activism...

Issue #107

Winter 2017–18

States of inequality

Political polarization and the US working class

Issue contents

Top story

States of inequality

Sharon Smith

Features

Workers’ organizations  in the Russian Revolution

Amy Muldoon
Clara Zetkin and the struggle against fascism

John Riddell and Mike Taber
Hal Draper's contribution to revolutionary Marxism

Joel Geier
The case for an independent Left party

Howie Hawkins
Unequal exchange

Barry Finger

Interviews

A novel retelling of the October Revolution

China Miéville interviewed by Todd Chretien
Revolution, counterrevolution, and imperialism in Syria

Yassin al-Haj Saleh interviewed by Ashley Smith

Upcoming Articles

The Russian Revolution revisited

Ahmed Shawki

Editor's Choice

History of the Russian Revolution (part 2)

Amy Muldoon

It would be an obvious mistake to identify the strength of the Bolshevik party with the strength of the soviets led by it. The latter was much greater than the former. However, without the former it...

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Capitalism and sexual assault

Sharon Smith

All those fighting for women’s liberation are aware that sexual assault and domestic violence are among the most damaging manifestations of women’s oppression, the world over—they are inextricably...

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