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The March 26 London demonstration organized by the Trades Union Congress to protest against the Tory-Liberal coalition’s public sector cuts was the largest labor outpouring in over two decades. Various tendencies participating, from reformist to anarchist, are discussed – Editors

We are pleased to make available to our readers the electronic version of the Arabic translation of Raya Dunayevskaya’s Marxism and Freedom, published in 2010 with the support of the Victor Serge Foundation — Editors

From the series Our World, Our Times

A look at Vietnam today: the land question, the status of women,  attempts to build independent unions, state repression, political dissent, and possibilities of revolution. – Editors

Video of a presentation at a symposium marking the publication on the Letters of Rosa Luxemburg, New York University Law School,  March 14, 2011 (13 mins.)

We link to this statement of solidarity by Egyptian trade unionist Kamal Abbas in support of the Wisconsin workers demonstrating against Governor Scott Walker’s attempted union busting.

Although it is not a Marxist analysis, we are giving our readers a link to this article by a prominent Palestinian journalist in Al Jazeera English. In pointing to the post-Islamist character of the present revolutionary moment in the Middle East, Andoni offers insights from to build such analysis – Editors

Written in diary form as the Mubarak regime was teetering, this article by a participant in the demonstrations in Toronto in support of the Egyptian revolution reflects on the nature of revolution, today and in the past — Editors

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The Egyptian upheaval, along with a smaller one in Mexico, signals the dawn of a new era of revolution, after decades of neoliberal hegemony – Editors.

Both Marx and Luxemburg were intensely interested in the impact of the expansive logic of capital accumulation upon non-capitalist or developing societies. At the same time, there are also serious differences in their approach, in that Marx adopted a far less unilinear and deterministic approach to the fate of non-Western social formations as compared to Luxemburg. Originally appeared in Socialist Studies 6:2 (2010) — Editors

The violent language of the far right, rooted in Christian fundamentalism, has demonized the left and the antiwar movement. It is seen here as part of a battle of ideas in defense of capital –Editors

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