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Sarah Glynn and John Clarke presented their new book, Climate Change is a Class Issue, at a February 16 meeting of the Global Ecosocialist Network. Climate Change is a Class Issue is a vital new publication that explains the link between capitalism and the climate crisis, and discusses the solution: ecosocialism. Glynn is a writer and activist who has worked as an architect in England and as a university lecturer in Scotland, researching issues around lower-income housing and multiculturalism. She is now based in Strasbourg, where she works for the…

Join us in Chicago for a four day conference of socialist politics, education, and community. July 3-6, 2025 Join Sophie Lewis for an unflinching tour of two hundred years of enemy feminisms—from 19th century imperial feminists and police officers to 20th century KKK feminists and pornophobes to today’s anti-abortion, TERF, and Zionist feminists. By way of a reckoning with these counterproductive, violent feminisms, this session will make the case for the bold, liberatory, antifascist feminist politics we need instead. Don’t miss it! Register for Socialism 2025 today! Register for Socialism…

Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. In 1962, Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa (1931–1993), mostly known as Flora Nwapa, sent a book manuscript to the Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe (1930–2013). Four years earlier, Achebe, at the tender age of twenty-eight, had published his landmark novel Things Fall Apart with Heinemann. The novel arrived in Heinemann’s London office as the decolonisation movement began to change the shape of the African continent (Ghana won its independence in 1957, three years after Nigeria – both countries with an…

By Jayantha Das

Demetrio Urruchúa (Argentina), Nuevo orden (The New Order), 1939. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. On an evening in September 2024, Argentina’s President Javier Milei stood before a large crowd in Parque Lezama in Buenos Aires. He wore his signature dark leather jacket and barked out his speech, the crowd devouring every word. ‘Here you have the trolls’, he said, ‘corrupt journalists, shady characters. These are the trolls’. Then, he pointed at the people in the crowd and said that they were invisible because…

La Marx International On March 15, Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, witnessed the largest demonstration in its history, even larger than the one that overthrew the dictatorship of the genocidal Slobodan Milošević on October 5, 2000. The Serbian capital brought together more than 700,000 protesters in a city of less than two million inhabitants, causing the human tide to take two hours to cross the 450 meters of Branko Bridge, which spans the Sava River. It is a true revolution that is demolishing the capitalist government of Aleksandar Vučić, who…

Join us in Chicago for a four day conference of socialist politics, education, and community. July 3-6, 2025 Haymarket Books is thrilled to welcome 50+ endorsing organizations (and counting!) as partners in bringing you this year’s Socialism Conference! The Socialism Conference is a place where radicals, socialists, abolitionists, and labor militants come together to share ideas, analysis, historical lessons, and strategic discussions about the world we live in and the world we’re fighting for. The conference can only play this role because of the wide range of left-wing organizations and media…