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Author: Mike Haynes

Forget the Pipelines: Blowing Up Bad History – the Peculiar Story of Andreas Malm and the Suffragettes

With its provocative title, Andreas Malm’s 2021 How to Blow Up a Pipeline broke out of the left ghetto and gained mainstream attention for the argument that the climate change crisis is so severe that direct action is justified. Certainly, we need more mass protest and campaigns to push for change. But Malm wants to

The Problems of ‘Political Marxism’ and Its Application to the ‘Russian Question’

       **For a reply to this article by John Marot, go here.** John Marot’s The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect (Historical Materialism Book Series 2012https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/511-the-october-revolution-in-prospect-and-retrospect) is an important collection of essays which I have positively reviewed inRevolutionary Russia.[1] It contains essays on four different areas. There is John’s work on Bogdanov, his

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