New Future

“We aim to balance a Utopian vision of a radically different system with realistic steps to improve life”, state the LINKS candidates at the upcoming Austrian parliamentary elections. Note from LeftEast editors. This is a reprint of an interview which was originally published at Mašina.

Villeneuve's hit retelling of Herbert's Dune erases Islam and MENA cultures from the speculative future.

Piecing together the history of the Chinese American anarchist movement and its involvement in the revolutionary struggle for anarchy.

During the first half of the twentieth century, millions of American workers and farmers wanted to socialize banking. In a nation where socialist principles supposedly lacked appeal, grassroots support for public banks revealed the prevalence and popularity of economic ideas that intersected and overlapped with socialism. Banking politics also presents a potential source of working-class political mobilization today.

George Orwell’s ethics of equality deserve careful consideration from general readers and academic moral philosophers alike. A new book offers a spirited defense of Orwell as a philosophical outsider but fails to historicize his socialist egalitarianism.

Is the success of the electoral left in contemporary Mexico linked to the emergence of a new social pact? This article outlines the trajectory of the electoral left, parsing out its understanding of neoliberalism as a political economy of corruption and the budding features of actually existing post-neoliberalism in the country.

Embracing national belonging strategically and redefining it with inclusive, progressive values can boost consensus and counter the Right’s dominance. However, this approach is neither straightforward nor without risks, which must be carefully considered.

The recent elections in Mexico are a tremendous development in continental politics. The election of Claudia Sheinbaum as president represents not just a continuation of Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s progressive agenda but the potential for lasting change in the country’s political economy.

The Gulf states are transit states because migrants constitute a majority of their populations. The politics of labor control is central to the organization of these states and to the predominance of their political and capitalist classes. The contradiction of Gulf labor politics lies in the autocratic nature of rule based on nonmarket forms of labor control and the continuous demand of the market for a willing labor force.

Nature is ever growing in complexity. Humans can either embrace that complexity or have it imposed on them by the order of the universe.

The attempted assassination of Donald Trump will bring an increase in fascist propaganda and reactionary attitudes, likely targeted at marginalised groups and political dissidents.

Liberals call for Uyghur rights but support Israel’s genocide, while tankies clamor for the liberation of Palestine but dismiss the labor camps in Xinjiang as a hoax by US imperialism.

Murray Bookchin’s ideas on dialectical naturalism have sparked significant debate among ecophilosophers, even within social ecology—particularly his view that it is possible to extract an objective ethics from natural history.

When my teacher Pamela Boyce Simms gave a presentation at the 2017 ISE Summer Gathering in Marshfield, she opened with the intentionally inflammatory statement that “It’s all the fault of the Enlightenment.

This essay is the first of a planned three-part series delving into the science of ‘first and second nature. ’ “Man did not create society; society existed before Man. ” Peter Kropotkin, “The State: Its Historic Role” “Unless we understand the language of the fauna and flora, we will neither understand ourselves nor become ecological socialists.

Armed with its twisted philosophy of history and mystical sensibility, the very idea of eugenics can be seen as radically conservative or downright reactionary. Its most mundane form appears in statements that “Western civilization” or “Western values” are in decline or under threat.

Calls for radical community-based action in response to the climate crisis seem to grow louder all the time.

The 1960s saw the development of the struggles of various social groups as well as alternative politics in the Western world to the dogmatic Marxism that had previously dominated the Left. Social movements against racism and patriarchy emerged, and alternative culture blossomed in everyday life.

Murray Bookchin was keenly aware of the unique constraints, as well as possibilities, imposed by specific historical eras on those lodged within them.

The indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest—ranging from southern Canada to northern California—have long had a reverential relationship with salmon. It made frequent appearances in their myths and was often duplicated in the totemic structures of the Salish peoples.