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US capitalism: ‘Take the money & run,’ or, ‘This sucker could go down, Mark II’
By liz_beths and Dr_Tad It is hard to grasp the epochal significance of ratings agency Standard & Poor’s downgrade of the United States’ credit rating, nothing less than an ideological...
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Left Flank in London
Tad and Elizabeth are both presenting conference papers at this year’s Historical Materialism conference, held in Central London later this week. UK readers can register for the conference here. This...
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The shock of the not-so-new: Or, the Greek elections & SYRIZA’s rise
Alexis Tsipras Since I last wrote about the situation in Greece the debate I mentioned at the end of my post — about whether all tendencies on the radical Left should get behind the election of a Left...
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Leo Panitch, the state & capitalist social relations
Introducing AN INTEGRAL STATE, the new blog by Elizabeth Humphrys Recent years have seen a big increase in Marxist theorising on the state and its relationship to the capitalist system. These...
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How having the Left in government made life easy for Abbott
Unceremonious bundling out Here is an edited transcript of the speech I gave at the Secure Jobs in a Green Future Conference. Thanks to the Search Foundation for inviting me along, and to the other...
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Marxism & social movements: Dialogue to printed page
I’m excited to be able to say that I have a chapter contribution in the just released ‘Marxism and Social Movements’ book, which is part of the Historical Materialism book series. I’ve read a number...
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Whatever happened to the Indignados? 1: Radical struggle
LUKE STOBART with the first instalment of a special three-part analysis of the radicalisation that has swept Spain since the 15-M protests of 2011. *** Anti-politics and the 15-M movement On 15 May...
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The capitalist state, neoliberalism and industrial arbitration
Left Flank’s ELIZABETH HUMPHRYS has launched a new website for her own work, An Integral State: Notes on Marx & Gramsci. The latest post is her paper from the roundtable on Leo Panitch & Sam...
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‘Abolishing the present state of things’
Paris Commune: the ‘reabsorption of the State power by society’ Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call...
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Understanding Podemos (3/3): ‘Commonsense’ policy
Anti-eviction activists occupy Madrid bank branch in early 2013 This is the third part of Left Flank’s series exploring the rise of Podemos. [i] The first part looked at how the new organisations drew...
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