Global Left Midweek – April 24, 2024
Portside
Focus on Europe
Focus on Europe
Focus on Europe
What Can We Learn From Aaron Bushnell’s Self-Immolation?
Convergence
Aaron Bushnell’s call to action pushes us to consider the relationship between individual moral commitment and collective political action.
books
Sketches From Spain: Homage to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Portside
No one is better qualified than Peter Neil Carroll to write a book of memorial poems about the valiant men and women who volunteered for the Abraham Lincoln Brigade to fight the fascists in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939.
tv
Netflix’s Live-Action Avatar: The Last Airbender Is Everything Fans Hoped It Would Be
Vox
Avatar remains one of the most unapologetically antifascist shows ever made. It’s not even generically pacifist — it frequently depicts acts of violent resistance as necessary.
Fascism 101: Why We Need To Spell It Out
Foreign Policy in Focus
There is no guarantee that fascism will not triumph, but it will certainly win unless we put ourselves, body and soul, fully and smartly, on the line to stop it
books
Blacklisted Communist Writer Albert Maltz’s Last Novel Will Finally Be Published in the US
Jacobin
When Communist writer Albert Maltz was blacklisted in the McCarthyist era, no commercial publisher in the U. S. would touch his novel A Tale of One January. A new edition slated for US distribution means his 70-year blacklist will finally end.
Global Left Midweek – November 29, 2023
Portside
Protest goes international
books
A Newly Translated Novel Captures the Tragedy of Greek Communism
Jacobin
Written in 1972, during Greece’s military junta, leftist Marios Chakkas’s recently translated novel The Commune is a mournful testament from a world where the stakes of politics were communism or fascism, democracy or dictatorship.
Global Left Midweek – October 4, 2023
Portside
News and analysis on left parties and social movements around the world
books
Ernst Bloch: Looking Backward, Looking Forward in the Fight Against Fascism
Socialist Forum
The German Marxist philosopher's work can help us understand fascism and how to fight it. Ernst Bloch was a critical Marxist thinker, a close supporter (though not a member) of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) from the 1920s through the 1950s.
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