Editorial 3 — November 2018
Upon embarking on our third issue, we hold that the alternative to abject repetition of class defeat is communist regroupment. … More Editorial 3 — November 2018
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I was This issue is adorned with a picture of the Spartacus uprising in celebration and reflection of one of our class’ most notable battles. Indeed, we are in the process of passing many centennials...
View ArticleSocialism’s foreign policy
International socialism, by virtue of its socialist and international character (that is, qua socialism and internationalism), can neither know nor tolerate any contradiction between its internal and...
View ArticleWorld revolution or “building socialism”?
Critical remarks on Kontra Klasa’s ‘Notes on the transition to communism’ “We leave to others, to the “technicians” and to the recipe makers, or to the “orthodox” of Marxism, the pleasure of engaging...
View ArticleAgainst all capitalist factions! For proletarian independence!
In the past few days Venezuela’s latest political drama has fluttered across the world press. On January 23 Washington declared that it recognizes Juan Guaidó, the leader of Venezuela’s opposition, as...
View ArticleCaravan migrants trapped on the frontiers of capitalism
Some 6,000 members of the US military have been deployed on the US-Mexican border to keep out the continuing flow of migrants from Central America, especially Honduras. At the same time, the new...
View ArticleRemembering Karl Liebknecht
An introduction to “Socialism’s Foreign Policy” Karl Liebknecht was not a great theorist. Unlike Rosa Luxemburg, with whose name he will be forever linked, he wrote no major treatises on forms of...
View ArticleOrganizing the workplace: Strategies and lessons learned in the struggle
In providing you with the background events leading up to the organizing effort, my hope is to convey the full context so that you can compare it to your own working conditions, and decide if...
View ArticleThe birth of socialism in the United States
Workers’ Offensive (This article was written by WO and edited by our comrades who write for Nuevo Curso). “Our political lineage comes from Marx and Engels, the First International, the revolutionary...
View ArticleOn the lumpenproletariat
An historical reconstruction and a conceptual critique The concept of the “lumpenproletariat” sits uneasily within Marxian class analysis. It is an unstable, even incoherent category, not only in terms...
View ArticlePrimitive accumulation in the Amazon
[…] the fraudulent alienation of the state domains, the theft of the common lands, the usurpation of feudal and clan property and its transformation into modern private property under circumstances of...
View ArticleOrganizing the workplace – Part II
Where we left off in Part 1, the organizing effort had met some success. The fight to get recognition cards culminated in reaching well over half of the bargaining unit. We were able to confront the...
View ArticleLeft unity
Talk to enough people who call themselves communists, and you’ll hear someone suggest unity among the left. The argument typically goes that any move towards the left is helpful, and that united action...
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Caliban and the Witch: A critical analysis
The following is a translation of a collaborative critique of Caliban and the Witch, written by Yann Kindo and Christophe Darmangeat in December 2017, and published in two separate essays on their...
View ArticleEditorial 5 — October 2019
Communists haven’t always opposed the development of capitalism. During the American Civil War, communists threw their support behind capitalists. After his re-election President Lincoln received a...
View ArticleA social history of the internet – Part II
[Editor’s note: This is the second part in the humanaesfera series on the Internet. For Part 1, please follow this link.] 6. SUBSUMPTION OF THE GEARS THAT MAKE UP THE MIND: MEMORY, THOUGHT, VOLITION,...
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In defense of decadence
The ripest maturity, the highest stage, that anything can attain is the one at which its fall begins Hegel, The Science of Logic 1 The concept of decadence remains a source of controversy for...
View ArticleA class perspective on the ‘women question’
1. The general terms of the ‘women question’ The issues facing women have made an urgent political reappearance in recent years, ranging from the horrific numbers of women killed by their partners to...
View ArticleThe pandemic and the crisis
The disease By now any material on the COVID-19 pandemic will seem like old news. Over the course of nine weeks, the number of cases has exploded from a reported number of a little over 500 cases to...
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Don’t suffer. Strike!
Protesters are seen at Amazon building during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in the Staten Island borough of New York City, U.S., March 30, 2020. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon To many it...
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