Socialist Perspectives

Rolling Back the Global Advance of the Far Right

By Rohini Hensman
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In recent years, there have been many articles by socialists and left-liberals noting with alarm the advance of far-right regimes and parties. These include the United States (Donald Trump), Europe (the National Front/Rally in France, UKIP and the Brexit Party in the UK, the League in Italy, Vox in Spain, the Law and Justice Party…

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Why Democracy and Socialism Need Anti-Racist Socialist Feminism

By Zillah Eisenstein
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Amidst the right wing white supremacist challenges to democracy resides both a new embrace of socialism and its vilification. Amidst this cacophony exists the rare possibility of radicalizing the meaning of democracy and, with it, socialism at a time where the meaning of each is fractious and also rich with possibility. I imagine a loving,…

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Claudia Jones and the Emancipatory Promise of Socialism

By Denise Lynn
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In the 1930s, the American Communist Party (CPUSA) was the center of the American Left. Capitalism seemed to have failed, evidenced by the Great Depression, and socialism in the Soviet Union was unfazed. The rise of fascism made securing equality a new imperative, and the CPUSA put itself in the forefront of the anti-fascist movement.…

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2024: Vol. 23, No. 3

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