Socialist Strategy and the Capitalist Democratic State
By Stephen Maher and Rafael Khachaturian, The democratic socialist movement in the United States today is emerging fr
Seven Theses on the Capitalist Democratic State
By Michael A. McCarthy What is the capitalist democratic state and how should it be confronted? This question has bedev
Call for papers: Democracy on the Edge? Revisiting Neoliberalism & Democracy in Contemporary Capitalism
Journal of Australian Political Economy Special Issue: The relationship between neoliberalism and democracy has al
Free Markets and the Decline of Democracy
By John Weeks, The ideology of market freedom achieves its fullest expression in an authoritarian state. The regulat
New Book: For a Left Populism
By Chantal Mouffe. From Verso: Populism, today, is the expression of a crisis of liberal-democratic politics. It is mo
Yanis Varoufakis: Is Capitalism Devouring Democracy?
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGeevtdp1WQ&w=640&h=360] Economist and fierce EU critic Ya
John Weeks on Free Markets & the Decline of Democracy
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2bOhk-s3Lw&w=640&h=360] 2018 David Gordon Memorial Lectu
New Book: Deport, Deprive, Extradite – 21st Century State Extremism
by Nisha Kapoor. From Verso: In 2012 five Muslim men—Babar Ahmad, Talha Ahsan, Khalid al-Fawwaz, Adel Abdul Bary, and A
Socialist Register 2018: Rethinking Democracy
Edited by Gregory Albo and Leo Panitch, For years, intellectuals have argued that, with the triumph of capitalist, lib
Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD)
At a meeting on the evening of Friday, January 3, 2003, at the 117th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Associati
Potere al Popolo: In Italy, a new left-wing movement is born
In Rome on December 17, the first national meeting of Potere al Popolo (Power to the People), a new grass-roots left-win
On Venezuela, Democracy, Violence and Neoliberalism
By Matias Vernengo, In Argentina, the right-wing neoliberal agenda eventually dislocated the Kirchner governments
CALL FOR PAPERS: Freedom and Justice – Jobs, Economic Security, and Inclusion
The National Economic Association (NEA) and the American Society of Hispanic Economists (ASHE) announce and invite p
Economic Crisis and Democracy in Brazil: a talk with former President Dilma Rousseff.
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New Book by Kristin Ross: Communal Luxury – The Political Imaginary of the Paris Commune
From Verso: Kristin Ross’s new work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the moti
Yanis Varoufakis: Grexit ‘never went away’
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New Book by Bruno Jossa: Labour Managed Firms and Post-Capitalism
From Routledge: The prerequisite for overthrowing capitalism is a system which both leverages selfishness and creat
New book by John Rees: The Leveller Revolution – Radical Political Organisation in England, 1640–1650
From Verso: The Levellers, formed out of the explosive tumult of the 1640s and the battlefields of the Civil War, are cen
J.W. Mason: Socialize Finance
From Jacobin Magazine: […] The development of finance reveals the progressive displacement of market coordin
James K. Galbraith: From the Destruction of Greece to Democracy in Europe
by James K. Galbraith, In protesting the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I, John Maynard Keynes wrote: “The polic