The Lenin Quintet—a series of works published to mark the centenary of his death.  Ruth Wilson Gilmore: On the Centenary of Lenin’s Death Ruth Wilson Gilmore asks how might the politics explained or implied in Lenin’s writings inform our analytical and practical grasp of what is to be done now, in her introduction to Imperialism…

Newsletter ‘In Movement’ 1 (2024) 10 January, 2024 Internationalist greetings! This is the first edition of the 2024 International Peoples’ Assembly (IPA) Newsletter In Movement. We start the year by inviting you to get to know and support our process of coordination, mass mobilizations, solidarity among peoples, and anti-imperialist struggles The IPA has its roots in a long…

[This essay was originally published in Culture on the Offensive but is no longer available online. It has been republished here with permission.] Introduction In the late 1990s, political scientist Alan Wolfe remarked that ‘the right won the economic war, the left won the cultural war, and the center won the political war.’ Today this…

JANUARY 4, 2024 Michael Armitage (Kenya), The Promised Land, 2019. Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. The final months of 2023 pierced our sense of hope and threw us into a kind of mortal sadness. Israel’s escalating violence has killed more than twenty thousand Palestinians to date, wiping out entire generations…

Sam Kahn Jan 22 A Guide for the Politically Homeless Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more   A Guide for the Politically Homeless Why we need a political realignment. Sam Kahn Jan 22     READ IN APP   (Photo by Michael Kovac/FilmMagic.) There seem to be two words in the air at the…