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Life, death and resurrection (Weekly Worker, Issue 1534, April 17, 2025). “Easter Sunday is the most important date in the Christian calendar. After a short life packed full of miracles, their man-god died an agonising death on a Roman cross – only to rise, three days later, from Hades, born again. But, asks Jack Conrad, what about the real, flesh-and-blood Jesus?” (på linkboxen Socialists on Religion).

Palæstinensiske fanger: ‘Der vil komme et oprør’. Af Michael Presberg (Socialistisk Information, 11. april 2025). “I Israels fængsler står palæstinensere – der som regel er tilbageholdt uden rettergang – over for mord, sygdom, seksuelle overgreb og noget af den mest ekstreme tortur på jorden. Under folkedrabet i Gaza har disse menneskerettighedskrænkelser nået et rekordhøjt punkt, siger en leder af fangeorganisation.” (på linkboxen Zionisme – Antizionisme).

Today is a day to celebrate Union victory and emancipation. By Aaron Jamal and Reilly Finnegan (Jacobin, April 9, 2025). “April 9, the day that the American Civil War ended in 1865, should be a national holiday celebrating the defeat of the Confederacy, the end of slavery, and the triumph of liberty.” Se også: 160 years since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. By Tom Mackaman (World Socialist Web Site, April 13, 2025) (på linkboxen Den Amerikanske Borgerkrig og Abraham Lincoln).

One should not camouflage capitalist and imperialist China as “socialist”: A reply to Immanuel Ness and John Bellamy Foster. By Michael Pröbsting (Spectre, April 8, 2025)
“While Foster and Ness make a number of largely correct criticisms of several left-wing authors who ignore or underestimate the relevance of imperialist superexploitation of semicolonial countries … they advocate a policy of support for the new Eastern Great Powers, praise China as a ‘socialist’ country …” (på linkboxen China and Capitalism).

Trump, Fascism and the authoritarian turn. By DK Renton (Spectre, April 1, 2025). “Rather than concentrating on applaing the (at times, misleading) label of fascist to Trump, the important thing is to learn the lessons from historical antifascist movements to formulate a robust counterpolitics to the Trumpian agenda.” (på Tidslinjen 8. november 2016).

Walter Rodney: a revolutionary for our times (Tempest, 1 April 2025). “Robert Cuffy and Leo Zeilig examine the revolutionary legacy of Walter Rodney, casting light on his break with state socialism and his embrace of working-class struggles from below.” (på Tidslinjen 13. juni 1980).

Lenin’s fight against Stalinism and the emergence of the Left Opposition. By Robert Belano (Left Voice, March 24, 2025). “The legacy of Lenin was not the Soviet state bureaucracy and bloody persecution embodied by Stalin. It was the revolutionary spirit that lived on in the Left Opposition led by Trotsky.” (på Tidslinjen 15. oktober 1923).

The U.S. ruling class and the Trump regime. By John Bellamy Foster (Monthly Review, Vol.76, No.11, April 2025). “… the fact that the ruling-class oligarchy is now openly wielding power on the national and international stages as part of the Trump regime shows that the overwhelming political influence of the capitalist class is no longer in dispute as this alignment pushes the country deeper into neofascism.” (på Tidslinjen 8. november 2016).

Oligarkernes kup. Af Kjeld Schmidt (Ny Politik, nr.1, 2025). “Hvordan kunne det ske? Hvordan skal vi forstå det? Det korte svar er, at en klike af mangemilliardærer har taget magten med en falleret kasinoejer og tugthuskandidat som frontmand. Det lange svar er, at det er noget mere kompliceret … Den brik, jeg vil fremhæve som den centrale, er den store omvæltning i forholdet mellem klasserne i det amerikanske samfund, der er sket over de seneste årtier.” (på Tidslinjen 8. november 2016).

(Marxist Left Review, Issue 28, March 2025). Australian half-yearly journal online with articles about How capitalism gave us Israeli barbarism, The ANC’s failure to deliver freedom in South Africa, The many failures of Western Marxism, Why the Kenyan youth revolted + Book reviews (China, Kautsky, Africa).

Rosa Luxemburg: frihed og klassedemokrati. Af Ellen Agerskov (Clarte: tidsskrift for marxistisk analyse, nr.10, 20. februar 2025). “Hvordan Rosa Luxemburg kunne kalde sig demokrat og anse borgerlige frihedsrettigheder for en forudsætning for virkeliggørelsen af det socialistiske demokrati samtidig med at hun kæmpede for proletariatets diktatur.” (på linkboxen Rosa Luxemburg, 1871-1919).

Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict: A primer. By Joel Beinin and Lisa Hajjar (Middle East Research and Information Project, February 2025). “This primer provides an overview of key actors, organizations, historic events, political developments and diplomatic initiatives that have shaped the status and fate of Palestinians and the State of Israel from the late nineteenth century to the present.” (på linkboxen Zionisme – Antizionisme: Historien om racisme og etnisk fordrivelse).

(Against the Current, Issue 235, March-April 2025). American socialist bimonthly online with theme about Women in struggle and, among others, Review essay on Communist women writers + Review essay on the USSR’s fate + Reviews of books about Palestine, Zionism and oil.

Sådan aktiverer du en massebevægelse – interview med Alle På Gaden For Et Frit Palæstina-initiativet. Af Mikael Hertoft og Jonas Neivelt (Solidaritet.dk, 19. februar 2025). “I snart halvandet år Københavns gader mindst hver uge lagt asfalt til store demonstrationer for våbenhvile og et frit Palæstina … Solidaritet har interviewet Tara Adler og Bilal Al-Issar.” (på linkboxen Zionisme – Antizionisme).

(New Politics: An Independent Socialist Journal, Issue 78, Winter 2025). American half-yearly online with themes about The far right in The United States and beyond, The Middle East (Syria) and articles about Richard Wright, Zionism and others + Book reviews).

Resistance – the axis and beyond (Issue 313, Winter 2024). “The issue provides a kaleidoscopic perspective on resistance to Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza since October 7, 2023. Since Hizballah’s ceasefire and the stunning ouster of Bashar al-Asad in Syria in December, the Axis of Resistance has appeared weaker than ever.”

(International Socialism, Issue 185, Winter 2025, 176 p.). British quarterly online with articles, among others, about The US election: an update, Farage and Reform UK: a clear and present danger and Palestinian women’s resistance today: imperialism, Islamism and violence + Book reviews.

(Science & Society, Vol.88, No.3, 2024). American journal online with symposium about Imperialism, Anti-Imperialism, and the Global Class Struggle: “One of the most urgent challenges facing the left is the need to come to terms with the meanings of ‘imperialism’ and ‘anti-imperialism’ in our time.”

Marxism and the critique of antisemitism (Historical Materialism, Vol.32, No.1-2, 2024). “This introduction and the special issue as a whole give some possible avenues for reflection: connection with Islamophobia, the place of Zionism and Holocaust memory in the projection of Western power, the rise of a new far right, and the shifting class position of both Jewish and other racialised communities, imperialism, and the ongoing crises of capitalism.” (på linkboxen The Politics af Anti-Semitism).