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Which Way for South Africa’s Communists?

Conrad Landin interviews Mzwandile Thakhudi Morning Star
Young Communist leader Thakhudi cites the history of the Alliance to explain the SACP’s position today. “Comrade president Oliver Tambo said our alliance is not a paper alliance, it is born out of struggle, and out of sacrifice."

The Surprising Pervasiveness of Pro-War Propaganda

Medea Benjamin, Nicolas J.S. Davies, Marcy Winograd Foreign Policy in Focus
The war in Ukraine has divided progressives like few other foreign policy issues in recent years. A Foreign Policy in Focus commentary by John Feffer posted on Portside criticized CODEPINK's position on the war in Ukraine. Here is our response.

Readers Debate: The Surprising Pervasiveness of American Arrogance

Kevin Young; Charles Patrick Lynch; John Feffer Portside
Last week Portside ran John Feffer's column, which generated a number of likes and shares on Portside's Facebook page. We are are sharing two comments from readers Kevin Young and Charles Patrick Lynch. We asked John Feffer to respond to these.

Key to Strategy: Assess the Balance of Forces

Max Elbaum Convergence
A hard look at the balance of strengths between the MAGA and anti-MAGA blocs shows that pro-democracy forces must stretch for new levels of coordination and strategy.

We Need to Win Our People Back - Lessons from the French Left

Interview with Elsa Faucillon and Éric Coquerel; b Fabien Escalona and Pauline Graulle; Translation by David Broder Jacobin
French workers' top electoral choice isn't Marine Le Pen, but abstention. To mobilize their support, the Left needs to look beyond the workplace alone - and answer a deeper mood of alienation.

A Plan to Win

Peter Gowan Jacobin
The overriding aim of democratic socialist strategy is to weaken the power of business, before breaking with capitalism entirely.

Left Strategy After Charlottesville

Max Elbaum Organizing Upgrade
In shorthand: this essay is an argument for the left to interact with the post-Charlottesville surge of resistance by pursuing a strategy that is anti-right, anti-racist, gender-inclusive, grounded in the interests of the working class and oriented toward working both inside and outside of the Democratic Party.
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