June 24th, 2025
Trump’s Surprise Attack on Iran Deepens US Imperial Entanglements
The US’s June 22 surprise attack on Iranian nuclear facilities constitutes the first use of a new generation of “bunker-buster” bombs, dropped from B2 stealth bombers. According to an AP report of June 22, “The roughly 30,000 pound precision-guided bomb is designed to attack deeply buried and hardened bunkers and tunnels, according to the U.S. […]
June 16th, 2025
Oppose Apartheid Israel’s Attack on Iran!
Israel’s June 13 attack on Iran, beginning at 3:00 AM local time, was a reckless, barbarous act that threatens to set the entire region aflame. Some 200 Israeli planes, as well as missiles and drones, bombarded the country, destroying military bases and nuclear infrastructure, the avowed aim of the attacks. Israel also assassinated, apparently in […]
April 03rd, 2025
Israel Resumes Genocidal Campaign in Gaza
French version here Death Toll Surpasses 50,000 and Repression Escalates Against Solidarity Movement After seven weeks of a ceasefire, Israel suddenly resumed its genocidal bombing campaign on March 18. In surprise air attacks in the middle of the night, it killed at least 400 Palestinians. In the ensuing days, the official Palestinian death toll since […]
February 16th, 2025
The Trumpist Coup, Fascism U.S.-Style in an Era of Capitalist Decline, and Some Loci of Resistance
French version here Spanish version here Slovak version here What We Are Facing in Winter 2025 In a veritable blitzkrieg, the Trumpist fascists have changed U.S. and global society irrevocably in a matter of weeks. They have already carried out the following, without any real chance of reversal in the courts or Congress in the immediate […]
January 29th, 2025
After the Fall: Hope Amid the Ruins of Post-Assad Syria
French version here A few weeks after the epochal fall of the Assad dictatorship, Syria remains in flux. It could not be otherwise after 53 years of the strangulation of civil and political life under one of the world’s most murderous regimes. Nonetheless, some broad outlines of where Syria is going can be discerned. But […]
January 09th, 2025
Marx on Communal Villages as Loci of Revolution, in 19th C. Russia & Beyond
Two years before his 1879–82 notebooks on communal social forms around the world, Marx begins to see an uprising in Russia as the most likely starting point for a wider European revolution. For example, in remarks on the Russo-Turkish War (the “oriental crisis”) in a letter of September 27, 1877, to the New Jersey communist […]
November 08th, 2024
The US Election: How Can We Move Forward While Staring Negativity in Its Face?
Summary: Based on remarks at a panel on “Developing Revolutionary Perspectives at a Turning Point,” sponsored by the International Marxist-Humanist Organization on the eve of the Historical Materialism Conference, Conway Hall, London, November 6, 2024 – Editors The second election of Donald Trump to the US presidency and of the Trumpist Republican Party on November […]
September 29th, 2024
Stop the Spread of Israel’s Genocidal War into Lebanon!
On Israel’s brutal assassinations, its colonialist arrogance, and the limitations of Hezbollah’s model of resistance. Approved as a Statement of the Steering Committee of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization — Editors
September 23rd, 2024
Facing the Fascist Danger, Autumn 2024
Summary: The threat of rising fascism in France, Germany, Britain, and the USA First appeared here: https://newpol.org/facing-the-fascist-danger-autumn-2024/ In autumn 2024, the largest democratic republics in Europe and North America remain in extreme danger, amid ongoing and deepening fascist threats, especially in the U.S. France: Centrists Betray July Vote, Allying with Neofascists. In France, voters mobilized […]
September 19th, 2024
Facing the Fascist Danger
In autumn 2024, the largest democratic republics in Europe and North America remain in extreme danger, amid ongoing and deepening fascist threats, especially in the U.S. France: Centrists Betray July Vote, Allying with Neofascists. In France, voters mobilized by the left defeated the neofascist National Rally party in the July parliamentary elections. But by September, […]