In crisis-torn Lebanon, social media collective Megaphone is building an alternative to the political establishment Lebanon has long been known for its comparatively liberal approach to press and media freedom, which allowed a flourishing print industry to serve as a hub for writers and journalists from across West Asia and North Africa. In recent years,…

Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung  on January 21, 2024 by Michael Brie (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  |  (Posted Mar 12, 2024) Ideology, Philosophy, Revolutions, SocialismEurope, Russia, Soviet Union (USSR)NewswireLenin  … even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious. – Walter Benjamin The Left has tossed Lenin’s corpse to the…

THE FUTURE AND THE LEFT In times like these, the very appearance of an essay like Oliver Eagleton’s offers a glimmer of hope.footnote1 His critique of my work is both historically conscious and generous towards the often less-than-successful endeavours of an older generation; he maps new paths with impressive commitment and knowledgeable insight into the complexities of…

A dose of working-class realism can save journalism from groupthink. WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ MAR 08, 2024 From the editors: I started as an editor at Persuasion a little over a year ago. The feeling I had about Persuasion then is the same feeling I have now: that this is a jewel and, to some extent, a…

BY ALFRED W. MCCOY Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate. So it was with the British, French, and Soviet empires; so it now is with imperial America. Great Britain confronted…