New Politics, Summer 2026
Cuba: End of an Era? Lisbeth Moya Gonzalez
McCarthyism Then and Now An Interview with Ellen Schrecker
The Streets Are Asking Questions the Leaders Cannot Answer in Ukraine Adam Novak
Sudan: Liberal Peacebuilding and the Price of Impunity Husam Mahjoub
The Bund: A Committed History Review of Molly Crabapple by Peter Drucker
Russia’s Political Prisoners and the People Who Speak for Them
Italy: The Murderous State, Presumed Innocent Stefanie Prezioso
Teamsters for a Democratic Union? Review by Andrew Sernatinger
Doubling Down Finkel reviews Benjamin & Davies on Ukraine
In an interview, Daniel Gross discusses strategies for powerful rank-and-file unionism in the United States today.
Historian Ellen Schrecker discusses how the repression against students and workers in higher education today are in many ways worse than McCarthyism.
Russia today holds more political prisoners than at any time since the post-Stalin thaw of the 1950s. Since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Russian state has systematically prosecuted antiwar critics on charges ranging from “discrediting the
The rave reception for Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country is a breakthrough for Jewish radicals. After decades of Zionist hegemony within U.S. Jewish communities, including on the left, suddenly Crabapple’s avowedly, even fiercely anti-Zionist book is
Siyavash Shahabi critiques campism as an abdication of class independence and a symptom of the weakness of independent working-class politics today.
David Finkel criticizes Medea Benjamin and Nicolas Davies’ book on the war in Ukraine, which minimizes the voices of left-wing Ukrainians and antiwar Russian dissidents, and obscures Putin’s annexationism as the cause of the war.
Eighty-one years ago this week, on August 6 and August 9, United States dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, the first on Hiroshima and the second on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 200,000 human beings and poisoning and sickening many others.
The book sets out to familiarize uninitiated DSA members with the terms of political debates that are in play nearly ten years after the organization’s resurgence in 2016.
The people of Pakistan-administered Jammu Kashmir are facing one of the bloodiest episodes of state repression in recent history.
A critical examination of Trotsky’s evolving views on revolutionary morality and democracy in revolutionary movements.
The discredit attained by the dominant parties, by the legislature, by the “politicians” and even “politics” itself, defined inaccurately, but viscerally despised by many people, recalls the concept of “organic crisis” advanced by the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci. Authors such
Marking an anniversary of a book’s publication is, appropriately, reserved for books that were widely read when they first appeared many years ago. Books we commemorate with an anniversary are ones that ushered in a new way of thinking and influenced the way society tries to make sense of the world. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last book, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community did neither of these things.
Heather Ann Thompson has written a magnificent history of the Attica Prison uprising, the deadliest prison rebellion in U.S. history.
Looking back on nearly 25 years of involvement in the LGBT movement, and 45+ years in the labor movement, I am struck by the way those paths have crossed, intertwined and separated over the long term.
