Issue 1.5 - The Spectre

Letter from the Editor 2: Why International Socialism?

Global capital is dependent upon keeping everything in its right place. When the Global South get a little too rowdy, capital has a full toolbox to tighten those loose screws: debt, political interference, and when needed, physical force.

International Politics

Sudan’s Invisible Struggle: In Defining the Country’s New Era, Material Needs will be Front and Center

The uprising which ousted Bashir was instigated by an IMF-enforced austerity budget which threatened access to basic necessities. If the future democratic government fails to reject the Washington consensus, they will prove themselves no more trustworthy than Bashir’s authoritarian government.

International Politics

In Syria, New Hope and Familiar Threats

Recent events in Northern Syria seem, strangely, at once momentous and banal.

Roman Broszkowski

The New Polish Right: An Unholy Marriage Between Christian Nationalism and Welfare Politics

By examining countries further along the path Trump appears to be pursuing, American socialists can learn valuable lessons about how best to direct their energies for the immediate future and fight back against the authoritarian right.

Joaquim Stevenson-Rodriguez

Fuel Shortages Ignite Furor in Haiti

The situation in Haiti is perhaps an extreme example, but it should serve as a warning and an inspiration: when greed, corruption, and imperialism are left unchecked, the continued function of society as a whole becomes untenable, and the people begin to move toward revolution.

International Politics

Bolivia on the Brink: U.S. Sides with Christian Fascists against Indigenous Sovereignty

Multinational capital has seized the opportunity presented by a highly contested election and used their influence in the military to remove a popularly elected president, and install an unelected reactionary and anti-indigenous interim president.

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