This is the second in a series of columns looking at Left strategy today. Key to Strategy #1 focused on the first component of Sun Tzu’s dictum that to prevail in battle it is necessary to “know the enemy and know yourself.”
García Márquez was a pilgrim of the world. His passion to know the truth, that age-old fetish of journalists, led him to travel and engage with the reality of the different people that he met.
India, Malaysia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam — Reports on the left and working people across Asia
Solidarity with China? Division on the left... and the Syria debate continues too
Camila Valle interviews Selma James about feminism, anti-imperialism, and a lifetime of international Marxist organizing.
What does a decolonization movement look like, and how is it informed by both Black and Indigenous traditions of resistance?
Opposing views on Mexico's leader, international statements on the upsurge in the US, and more
Over the past century, the US government repeatedly disrupted leftist movements and supported or carried out coups around the world - aided by American labor leaders. A full reckoning with the AFL-CIO’s collaboration with US imperialism can help us.
An exhibition of Cuban propaganda posters and magazines in London shows the support Fidel Castro gave to African liberation movements during the Cold War. The works were produced by 33 designers, many of them women.
Fed -up with the imperial adventures of their own western capitalist governments, some radicals wrongly side with foreign dictators in the name of anti-imperialism. The book under review aims to move beyond a disabling “the West and the rest” binary.
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