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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · Sep 8

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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · Sep 7

Ross Wolfe concludes his critique of Losurdo's “worthless” work:

“Its influence in the current online Stalinist revival attests to the extent to which defeat can be repackaged and sold as victory.”

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Revisionism Revisited

Losurdo revised Marx, Engels, and Lenin whenever their theories did not conform to the faits accompli of actually-existing socialism.

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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · Sep 4

Ross Wolfe untagles Domenico Losurdo's supposedly decolonial critiques of Western Marxists: "Losurdo’s specific accusations against them feel haphazard. The only consistent feature throughout is his dishonesty."

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Losurdo's Lies

His readings are so tendentious as to strain credibility.

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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · Sep 1

Ross Wolfe tackles Domenico Losurdo's work as "a new school of falsification, all in service of justifying the course history has taken. Everything he wrote had to align with the geopolitical interests of [a] few nominally socialist states"

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Against Losurdo

His intellectual output constitutes nothing less than the (re)entry of Stalinism into the realm of philosophy.

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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · Jul 12

James Holmes writes about the notion of choice in contemporary liberal democracy:

“Genuine freedom is not like selecting a dish from a menu; instead, it’s more like the ability to create a new dish and perhaps to prepare a whole other menu.”

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Choice is Not Freedom

Genuine freedom is not like selecting a dish from a menu.

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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · Jul 6

Meriem Hadjal recounts her experience of the Global March to Gaza:

“June 12, 2025, was a historic date. More than 4,000 people from around the world gathered in Cairo for an unprecedented act of solidarity with the Palestinian people.”

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The Global March to Gaza

The Sisi government blocked life-saving aid from reaching starving Palestinians.

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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · Jun 30

Foucauld Giuliani writes that Trump’s theology:

“[...] resolves to the legitimation of war, deification of force, and sanctification of death; it is a theology of power and violence; a non-Christian and anti-evangelical heresy.”

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Donald Trump’s Idolatrous Ideology

Trump honors a god made for measure: one of war.

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Keanu Heydari @keanuheydari.bsky.social · Jun 19

I joined
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on “Fruitless” to talk about what’s going on in Iran.

Fruitless @fruitlessmedia.bsky.social · Jun 19

NEW EPISODE OF FRUITLESS! I was joined by @keanuheydari.bsky.social to discuss the conflict between Israel and Iran and the logic of escalation. Available wherever you get your podcasts.

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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · Jun 19

Keanu Heydari writes about the Iran-Israel conflict:

"The architecture of escalation, therefore, is not a disruption of the international order; it is its method."

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Iran, Israel, & the Logic of Escalation

The substance of the international order is state violence with impunity.

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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · May 25

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Nagarjuna's Middle Finger | VarnVlog @varnvlog.bsky.social · May 23

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Radical Engagements: "Abundance: Big Tech's Bid for the Democratic Party" by Kate Willett

YouTube video by C. Derick Varn

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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · May 23

Alice Celik writes about the dissolution of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK):

“[...] armed struggle is over; now is the time for a political strategy. A risky but calculated move, in response to a profound popular aspiration.”

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Öcalan’s Last Call

The dissolution of the PKK should not be viewed as a surrender or as a victory for the Turkish state.

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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · May 20

Adam Jones (@sanktmaxtci.bsky.social) reads “AI” politically:

“Data centres function as an increasingly central part of the nervous system of an imperial, techno-capitalist order. Democratic politics holds the right to question their present and future existence.”

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‘AI’ as Class Warfare

So-called ‘AI’ does not reduce, but rather diffuses and renders labour practically invisible.

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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · May 15

Joe Gallagher (@joedgallagher.bsky.social) writes about how UK cuts to healthcare paired with end-of-life legislation threaten the disabled:

“For many it will be coercive euthanasia, an expansion of quotidian violence”

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Assisted Suicide, or Social Murder?

The UK cuts welfare and offers death.

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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · May 3

Mary Clare O'Donnell (@maryclareod11.bsky.social ) writes about Pope Francis' legacy:

“Francis continuously returned his focus to the margins [...] he would kneel before women, Muslims, and prisoners, washing their feet, as Jesus did in the New Testament.”

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The People’s Pope

Francis’ small but radical acts embodied a theology of closeness: the conviction that Christ is found not in power, but in proximity to those the world forgets.

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Tom O'Shea @tomoshea.org · Apr 21

My essay on the life and thought of James Connolly is now up at New International, just in time for the 109th anniversary of the Easter Rising.

James Connolly, Socialist Republican

His thought and his life stand as compelling exemplars of a figure he would rightly praise: “the Socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom”.

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Olly H @ollyhaynes.bsky.social · Apr 28

Read my review of Mélenchon and Hollande's new books!

New International @newintermag.bsky.social · Apr 24

Olly Haynes reviews Jean-Luc Mélenchon and François Hollande's new books:

“Where Hollande identifies himself with the state, Mélenchon identifies himself with the people—the mass of humanity organised as a collective actor.”

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Mélenchon vs. Hollande

Where Hollande identifies himself with the state, Mélenchon identifies himself with the people—the mass of humanity organised as a collective actor.

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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · Apr 27

Francis Parny calls for mobilization on May Day against Trump and the war-mongering capitalist class that he serves:

“Only the people can rise up and make themselves heard, opposing this global chaos”

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Workers of the Word, Unite!

In all our efforts, we must convince people that no positive change is possible without a rupture with capitalism.

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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · Apr 24

Olly Haynes reviews Jean-Luc Mélenchon and François Hollande's new books:

“Where Hollande identifies himself with the state, Mélenchon identifies himself with the people—the mass of humanity organised as a collective actor.”

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Mélenchon vs. Hollande

Where Hollande identifies himself with the state, Mélenchon identifies himself with the people—the mass of humanity organised as a collective actor.

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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · Apr 21

Tom O'Shea (@constantartifice.bsky.social) writes about James Connolly on this anniversary of the Easter Rising:

‘His thought and his life stand as compelling exemplars of a figure he would rightly praise: “the Socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom”

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James Connolly, Socialist Republican

His thought and his life stand as compelling exemplars of a figure he would rightly praise: “the Socialist, enthusiastic in the cause of human freedom”.

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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · Apr 17

Emre Öngün (@emreongun.bsky.social) writes about the revolt in Turkey, the “peace process” with Öcalan and the Kurds, the growing youth movement, and the resurgence of Kemalism.

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Turkey’s Political Crisis & Democratic Movement

Since the stated goal is now an inclusive republic, it becomes necessary to reinvent a past that supports it.

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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · Apr 15

Kate Willett (@katewillett.bsky.social) considers the groups funding and promoting the "Abundance" faction in the Democratic Party:

“Both Klein and the Tech Right agree on one thing: democracy interferes with the market’s ability to generate abundance.”

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Abundance: Big Tech’s Bid for the Democratic Party

The Tech Right has gained major influence in Washington by funding Republicans. The Abundance faction has taken a different route: funding Democrats.

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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · Apr 7

You can follow Pierre-Yves here: @pierre-yvescadalen.bsky.social

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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · Apr 7

Pierre-Yves Cadalen calls for a new form of politics given the climate crisis:

“Ecopower, then, can be rewritten as the form of power from which humankind will decide if our time will be indefinitely transitory, or if it will abruptly end.”

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The Defeat of Biopolitics

Just as the pretension to ideally govern the climate failed, Biopolitics as a project to foster life also failed.

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New International @newintermag.bsky.social · Apr 4

John Duncan calls the Left to ‘recognise the divisions hidden by shallow liberal universalist attacks on “woke” and instead build a truly universal movement defined by solidarity.’

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Universalism & The Anti-Woke

Rather than celebrate the death of woke, I say we revive and herald it.

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