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Lessons From the Arab Spring

Far from ending in defeat, the Arab Spring inaugurated a long-term revolutionary process in the Middle East. What happened to the 2011 Arab revolutions? They reverberated throughout the Middle East and North Africa and around the globe, influencing movements from Occupy to the indignados. Even after the Arab Spring had mostly passed, the wave they helped […]

Deep Contradictions Facing the Global Movement for Human Emancipation: The Middle East, China, and Europe

Prologue We live in a time marked by the revolutionary upsurge that began in the Arab world in 2011, followed swiftly by Madison, Madrid, Occupy Wall Street, and then a bit later, by Gezi Park in Turkey, the defense of Kobane, Black Lives Matter, and the Sanders and Corbyn phenomena. During this whole period, tiny […]

Review of Marx at Margins; Tomonaga Tairako, Ryuji Sasaki, Michio Goto and Takeo Kinoshita

Tomonaga Tairako, Ryuji Sasaki, Michio Goto and Takeo Kinoshita, Posse (Tokyo), Vol. 28 (2016, in Japanese)

Odkryta na Nowo i Uporczywie Aktualna — o Dialektyce w Filozofii i Polityce Swiatowej

This article was originally published in English as “The Rediscovery and Persistence of the Dialectic: In Philosophy and in World Politics,” in Lenin Reloaded: Toward a Politics of Truth, edited by Sebastian Budgen, Stathis Kouvelakis, and Slavoj Zizek (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007), pp. 120-47. The Polish version was published in PraktykaTeoretyczna 20:2, 2016, pp. […]

Easter 1916 at 100: Its Marxian Dimension

What the late British historian Eric Hobsbawm called “the short 20th century” is said to have begun with the Great War of 1914 and ended in 1989-91 with the collapse of the Soviet bloc. This remarkably bloody short century is seen as marked by Nazism, Stalinism, World War II and the Holocaust, and then the Cold War. As Theodor Adorno famously put it after 1945, humanity had experienced “progress,” albeit from the slingshot to the megaton bomb.

Kitabin Künyesi, “Lenin Hegel ve Batı Marksizmi (Eleştirel Bir İnceleme)”

(Turkish) Kitabin Künyesi,  “Lenin Hegel ve Batı Marksizmi (Eleştirel Bir İnceleme),” Insanokur, March 14, 2014 

Haluk Yurtsever, “Hegel ve Lenin Üzerine Kışkırtıcı Düşünceler [Thought Provoking Claims on Hegel and Lenin]”

(Turkish) Haluk Yurtsever, “Hegel ve Lenin Üzerine Kışkırtıcı Düşünceler [Thought Provoking Claims on Hegel and Lenin],” Radikal, Istanbul daily paper, May 14, 2014

Oppose Repression in Turkey

Since the November election, the Erdogan government has launched a near civil war in the predominantly Kurdish regions of southeastern Turkey.  It is seeking to create a climate of fear and repression that will drive out of the legal political process the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), the coalition of leftwing Kurds, Turkish leftists, ecologists, feminists, […]

Afterword to the Japanese Edition of Marx at the Margins — by Tomonaga Tairako and Soichiro Sumida

First published in the Japanese edition of Kevin Anderson, Marx at the Margins(Tokyo: Shakai Hyoron Sha, 2015). PDF

[Persian] ISIS Carnage in Paris Portends Repression in Europe and Intensified War in Middle East

This article was translated into Persian by Samiah Rostampour and published in Critique of Political Economy. The original, entitled “ISIS Carnage in Paris Portends Repression in Europe and Intensified War in Middle East,” was published in the International Marxist-Humanist, November 19, 2015. The Persian translation can be accessed HERE.