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This article was translated into French and published in Avanti: site animé par des marxistes révolutionnaires (Belgium). The original, entitled “Ukraine: Democratic Aspirations 
and Inter-Imperialist Rivalry,” was published in New Politics 15:1 (Summer 2014) and can be accessed HERE. The French translation can be accessed HERE.

Review of Gilbert Achcar’s The People Want: A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprising, a book that uncovers its economic and political underpinnings, while also offering a critique of crude forms of anti-imperialism.

This article was translated into Spanish and published in Viento Sur (Spain). The original, entitled “Ukraine: Democratic Aspirations 
and Inter-imperialist Rivalry,” was published in New Politics 15:1 (Summer 2014) and can be accessed HERE. The Spanish translation can be accessed HERE.

Today we face two new and shocking acts of militaristic barbarism, the Israeli attacks on Gaza, which have cost over 1000 lives, almost all of them civilians, and the downing by Russian-backed separatists of a civilian airliner over Ukraine that killed 298. Both of these attacks are examples of nationalist fanaticism; both are counterrevolutionary; both are seeking to extinguish the fires of national liberation movements; both will ultimately fail.

Three analyses of Ukraine that were issued separately as a pamphlet and will appear in the independent socialist journal New Politics 15:1 (Summer 2014). (French Translation) (SpanishTranslation)

The French philosopher Louis Althusser’s structuralist Marxism remains a point of reference for many contemporary schools of radical thought, even for some of those that have moved away from Marxism completely. Moreover, as radical thought has experienced a partial return to Marx after several decades of Nietzschean post-structuralism, the legacy of Althusser lies in wait, […]

Summary: This article was translated into Persian by Farzaneh Raji and published in Critique of Political Economy. The original, entitled “Ukraine: Popular Uprising in the Shadow of Putin’s Russia,” appeared in the International Marxist-Humanist on April 16, 2014 and can be accessed HERE. The Persian translation can be accessed HERE.

The Ukrainian uprising and its aftermath constitute one of the most important events of the past year, both subjectively and objectively. At a subjective level, the uprising showed the creativity of masses in motion and the ultimate fragility of state power, even when surrounded by a repressive police apparatus and enjoying the support of a foreign imperialist ally. At an objective level, it has touched off a new stage of interimperialist rivalry that has, at the very least, signaled the end of the already fraying “New World Order” constructed by [...]

This article was translated into Spanish by Alex Appel and published in Marxismo Critico. The original, entitled “Marx’s Late Writings on Russia Re-Examined” was first published in November 2007 and can be accessed HERE.  The Spanish translation can be accessed HERE.

This article was adapted and translated into Romanian by Dr. Mihaela Teodor and published in the literary magazine Clipa: Magazinul actualitatii culturale romanesti. The original, entitled “Not Just Capital and Class: Marx on Non-Western Societies, Nationalism and Ethnicity” was published in Socialism and Democracy in 2010 and can be accessed HERE.  The Romanian translation can […]