What we have come to call the “neoliberal” era began under US President Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s, rather than his Republican successor Ronald Reagan.
If a socialist left is to be built with some hope of liberating the workers of the Middle East and winning freedom for the Palestinian people, then it is vital to come to terms with the legacy of Stalinist class-collaborationist politics and rebuild on a genuinely revolutionary basis.
Australia boasts of belonging to the “Pacific family” and is motivated only by a desire to help its neighbours. It’s hard to reconcile this rosy self-image with Australia’s history of bullying, espionage and greed in East Timor.
Joel Geier recounts the history of socialist organisations relating to the Black liberation movement in the United States, which began with the civil rights struggle in 1956 and ended with the Black Power movement in the early 1970s.
Recognising the Democratic Party as one of the chief pillars of a system that maintains exploitation and oppression in US society is the first step toward building a socialist alternative to it.
The power of Marx’s economic writing means that frequently, and sometimes deliberately, his political insights are overlooked. But Marx was, first and foremost, a revolutionary, an activist and a radical.
