Platypus on the present

Obama and “race” | The “war on terror” | Afghanistan-Pakistan | Iran | Iraq | The financial crisis | Prospects for the “Left” | The student “Left” | The workers’ movement

Obama and “race”

Review: Angela Davis, “How does change happen?”

Exchange: “Race” in social-historical and political context

Requiem for the ’60s: response to a boycott of discussion of “40 years of 1968”

Obama: Progress in regress: the end of “black politics”

Forum: Progress or regress? The future of the Left under Obama

The “war on terror”

Nothing Left to say: on the Mumbai attacks

Going it alone: Christopher Hitchens and the death of the Left

Afghanistan-Pakistan

Afghanistan, internationalism and the Left: an interview with Terry Glavin

The poverty of Pakistan’s politics (PPP)

Iran

Review: Iran: “Insights into its religion, politics and power”

Film review: Persepolis and the personal consequences of failure

30 years of the Islamic Revolution in Iran: an interview with Ervand Abrahamian

The failure of the Islamic Revolution: the nature of the present crisis in Iran

Against the status quo: an interview with Homayoun Pourzad of the Network of Iranian Labor Unions

Iraq

Ba’athism and the history of the Left in Iraq: violence and politics

Iraq and the election: the fog of “anti-war” politics

Remarks on Chris Cutrone’s “Iraq and the election: the fog of ‘anti-war’ politics”

The financial crisis

Finance capital: why financial capitalism is no more “fictitious” than any other kind

Friedrick Hayek and the legacy of Milton Friedman: neoliberalism and the question of freedom (in part, a response to Naomi Klein)

Obama: 3 comparisons: MLK, JFK, FDR: the coming sharp turn to the Right

Obama and Clinton: “Third Way” politics and the “Left”

Prospects for the “Left”

Forum: The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and “Resistance:” the problematic forms of “anticapitalism” today

Forum: Progress or regress? The future of the Left under Obama

Letter to The Nation on “Re-imagining socialism”

Resurrecting the ’30s: a response to David Harvey and James Heartfield

Symptomology: historical transformations in social-political context

Forum: What is a movement?

The student “Left”

The Hundred Days Campaign: the present and future of SDS: an interview with Rachel Haut

Five questions to the student Left

Violence at the RNC

Exchange: Red-baiting and ideology: the new SDS

The New School occupation and the direction of student politics: an interview with Atlee McFellin

Forum: Politics of the contemporary student Left

The workers’ movement

Forum: The 3 Rs: Reform, Revolution, and “Resistance:” the problematic forms of “anticapitalism” today

Forum: Left behind: the working class in the crisis

Forum: What is a movement?

Labor struggles today: a report on a recent civil disobedience action in Chicago

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