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The Ideology of Anti Extremism

Moderate or extreme? Rowan Fortune looks at the questionable assumptions behind the concept and framing of anti-extremism.

“This revolution we are leading is a women’s revolution”

Olivier Besancenot spoke to Berivan Firat, external relations spokesperson for the CDK-F (Kurdish Democratic Council in France) about the Kurdish people’s struggle here and there.

Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues, Part 2

Part Two of a multi-part article on the causes and implications of global capitalism’s descent into an era when infectious diseases are ever more common. By Ian Angus

Left activism in Turkey

Dave Kellaway was recently in Istanbul and was able to interview Uraz Aydin, a member of the Central Committee of the Workers Party of Turkey (TIP), about the situation in Turkey following Erdogan’s better-than-expected success in last year’s presidential elections. Uraz was removed from his university post for political reasons by the Erdogan regime. We were also able to talk about the development of the TIP and the difficulties for the left in organising under an authoritarian regime.

French AntiCapitalists denounce the racist offensive and support Aya Nakamura

Dave Kellaway of Anti*Capitalist Resistance has translated the NPA - L’Anticapitaliste statement and added footnotes to explain some references people may not be aware of.

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GKN fundraising appeal

The occupied GKN factory in Italy has become a global symbol of the ecosocialist movement, as workers fight for sustainable production and community control – join our fundraiser to support this crucial struggle. By Anti*Capitalist Resistance

Hackney stands with Diane

Family friendly France?

Gove plays the extremism card

US economy: saved by immigrants

Politics at the Oscars

Portugal election – far right surges

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THEORY

Frantz Fanon: Martinican, French, Algerian, African Revolutionary

Ian Parker is reading a new full account of Fanon’s short life and work.

Lenin’s Political Work

Two, three, many Lenins

Socialism and revolutionary democracy: Lenin’s legacy for our time of catastrophe

The Limits of Left Moralism

Global Anti‑Trans Movement

Everybody Gets to be a Fascist: Or, What Taylor Swift Taught Me About Fascism

PUBLICATIONS

Israel’s War on Gaza

ISRAEL’S WAR ON GAZA by Gilbert Achcar Israel has seized the opportunity of Hamas’s operation on 7 October 2023 to devastate Gaza, reducing it to rubble, massacring a huge number of its inhabitants and forcing the rest to flee. Another Nakba is underway, 75 years after the creation of Israel. This booklet includes articles by Gilbert […]

Making Sense of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Making Sense of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine by Paul Le Blanc In this small book, Paul Le Blanc tries to ‘make sense of the Russian invasion of Ukraine’. His starting point is for a victory for Ukrainian self-determination and opposition to imperialism in all its forms. Paul Le Blanc tackles the following themes: What Mistaken Friends Say […]

The Russian Invasion and the Ukrainian Left

The Russian Invasion and the Ukrainian Left The Struggle for a Social Ukraine Commons Journal 13/2023: Edited by Stas Serhiienko, Published by Resistance Books. The Commons journal of social criticism is a left-wing Ukrainian media about economy, politics, history and culture, founded in 2009. ContentsArticles on: To the Western left, Between Survival and Resistance, and For a Just […]

The Well‑Dressed Revolutionary. The Odyssey of Michel Pablo

ISBN: 978-0-902869-10-3 (print)e-ISBN 978-0-902869-07-3 (e-book) RRP: £18, €22, $US25 (print)RRP: £9.99, €14.99, $US17.99 (e-book) 380 pages; 156×234 mm. Publication date: September 2023 About the book Michael Pablo was a twentieth century revolutionary whose life and ideas remain relevant and inspirational in the 21st. He spent his life involved in revolutions around the globe – in […]