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This essay is a work in progress. It is an attempt to synthesize two different theoretical approaches that have significantly influenced my thinking about fascism.  Excerpt from Introduction:  …Unlike most leftist discussions, this essay offers a ...

Regina Cochrane University of Calgary, Canada excerpt from section four, Neoliberalism and the Political Trajectory of Post-Development Populism The post-development populist notion of “culturally-perceived poverty” is problematic for a whole host of general reasons as outlined ...

The Nation does a short examination of the “new” SDS movement.

The text of a talk given at the National Conference on Organized Resistance, entitled “Challenges to Capital, Challenges for the Left: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and the Three Way Fight.” “The nineteenth century Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin famously ...

Co-curated by the Institute for Anarchist Studies and the Free Society Collective — For the first time, the National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR, http://www.organizedresistance.org) held in Washington, DC, is offering a Radical Theory Track — ...

The following article appears in the Winter 2007 issue of New Politics: THE IDEA THAT the Bush administration is imposing fascism on the United States has become increasingly commonplace in leftist and liberal circles. It’s often ...

“As the right internally and externally move to counter what the state is doing the question will be posed to the chavistas, capitulate to the right or cede state power to direct popular councils.” see post

we’re posting up a reminder of current (and semi-c) articles. we will start this general practice from here on out, with digests going out once a month or so. we’re not sure if this site is ...

by reddboy I would argue that we’ve reached a point in history where global capitalism is the immediate as well as the underlying issue and revolutionary strategy must confront all capitalist policy options, not just the ...

by reddboy The Growing Pains editorial and the Sketchy Thoughts response to it are welcome treatments of important issues. I want to make a few comments on one aspect; the editorial’s treatment of the pedagogy of ...

…It is worth remembering that the pedagogy of confrontation does not need to take the specific forms it did during the anti-globalization moment in order to remain true to the idea that people will be moved ...

from, Growing Pains, Editorial from Upping the Anti issue 3 Writing our most recent histories seems to bring to mind the reliable touchstones of literature. Let us say, then, that it was the best of times ...