Reckoning with Habermas
Habermas’s errors and even his blind spots do not diminish his intellectual stature. Without him, the darkness deepens still further in a Germany and a Europe that appear increasingly adrift.
Author: Panagiotis Sotiris
Posts by Panagiotis Sotiris
The Last Albanian Trotskyist?
Little known today, Sadik Premtaj is nonetheless a crucial figure for understanding the early years of the Communist Party of Albania (CPA).
A Line Is Followed, a Strategy Is Constructed – An Interview with Henri Lefebvre (1979)
This interview with Henri Lefebvre was conducted for the French Communist Party (PCF) journal La Nouvelle Critique in 1979. As the interview shows, Lefebvre’s renewed engagement with the PCF was neither nostalgic nor opportunistic but grounded in his conviction that Marxism required continual theoretical renegotiation if it was to remain capable of grasping contemporary reality.
A Timely Book on Urgent Questions: Marx’s Theory of Value at the Frontiers
E. Ahmet Tonak reviews Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre, Marx’s Theory of Value at the Frontiers: Classical Political Economics, Imperialism and Ecological Breakdown. New York: Routledge, 2025
World Trotskyism in 2025: A Brief Sketch
2025 has proved to be another difficult year for the Trotskyist movement. Despite reasonable election results in Argentina and Germany, extensive involvement in the new left party in Britain and a merger of two International bodies, the movement, as a whole, has suffered significant political splits and has made little headway in the scores of countries where Trotskyist parties are to be found.
Marx the Good
A review of Bruno Leipold’s Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought and Vanessa Will’s Marx’s Ethical Vision
Dossier: Marx, MEGA and MEGA-Marx
A special dossier on the ongoing MEGA² edition and its international reception. Featured articles: Kaan Kangal, Introduction to Dossier ‘Marx, MEGA and MEGA-Marx’ Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism, MEGA Roberto Fineschi, The Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe in Italy Roberto Fineschi, Notes on the Translation of Some Specialist Marxist Terms into Italian and English Jean Quétier, A French edition of
People Think: On Asad Haider
For Asad Haider, the fact that people think constitutes the condition of liberation. Yet thinking does not take place in a vacuum. It remains bound to the situations of which it is a part. And these situations are not self-determined but – at least for the time being – largely determined by others. Already at
On Zionism, capitalism, and labour: a review of Matan Kaminer’s Capitalist Colonial
Matan Kaminer, Capitalist Colonial: Thai Migrant Workers in Israeli Agriculture, Stanford University Press, 2024. Reviewed by Heba Taha As Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continued to escalate, many people found themselves feeling either subdued by the imperialist war machine or engaging in wishful thinking about its imminent collapse. While there have been notable and
Marxism & Disability Network (MDN) call for abstracts for 2026 events
Dear comrades, On behalf of the steering committee for the Marxism & Disability Network (MDN), we hope you all have been keeping well amidst a year of struggle but also success. To continue efforts that heighten understanding while prefiguring the communities and society we want to live in, the steering committee is excited to announce
Peter Watkins (1935–2025)
In an interview given in 2011, Peter Watkins remarked ‘I don’t think I’ve made a particularly radical film in forty years, not really’,[1] a remark that might surprise those who regarded him as one of the most important left-wing film directors of the second-half of the twentieth century. Watkins’ caution seems here to point to
In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987-2025)
‘Our subjective horizon is the optimism of the intellect; our objective, structuring condition is pessimism of the will. Without optimism of the intellect, we have the party without the people. Without pessimism of the will, we have the illusion of power. Until we recognize this there is no path for action.’[1] Asad Haider It is
