In an age of ideological conformity and technological brain-suck, the world needs more disobedient artists and thinkers.

By the Council Communist and KAPD member Ernst Biedermann, this text is about about collaboration between the USSR and ...

Many in the West, of the political right and left, now deny imperialism. For Josef Schumpeter, empires were pre-capitalist atavisms that would not survive the spread of capitalism. But even the ...

This brings to mind the poets of ideology and algorithms that Nadezhda would have called “mechanical nightingales.” When a friend told the Mandelstams about a bird he’d seen that, on its owner’s ...

“Bullets are the only way!” screamed the Bolsheviks. In answer to Chernov, Bolshevik Nikolai Bukharin strode to the platform to cry, “We demand a dictatorship of the toiling classes!

Since the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, the future of women in the new Syria remains uncertain. Under Assad’s rule, women were denied rights, imprisoned, and impoverished. Since 2011, they have ...

Trotsky’s interpretation of the historical meaning of Stalinism, to this day the most coherent and developed theorization of the phenomenon within the Marxist tradition, was constructed in the course ...