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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
‘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
Ciara Cremin, The Spectral Woman: Transfemininity and the Abolition of Gender, Pluto Press, 2025 Reviewed by Cat Moir Wolfe Introduction: the mask of manhood One of the memes on the popular satirical social media profile #manwhohasitall shows a picture of a man (young, white, able-bodied) running along a tarmacked road wearing a grey sports
Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift, Trans femme futures: Abolitionist ethics for transfeminist worlds. Pluto Press, 2024. Sophie Lewis, Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses against Liberation. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2025. Reviewed by Katharina Hunfeld What does the consolidation of far-right power in mainstream politics demand of the Left? On the current terrain
