News & announcements from ASA Marxist Section members
The evidence presented above suggests that not only do socialist identifiers differ significantly in their social and political beliefs from non-socialist identifiers in general, but they also differ significantly from those conventionally acknowledged as the beginning and end of the American ideological left: liberals.
In my book Women and Class Struggle (English translation forthcoming December 2025), I explore the historical, social, and class-based connections between Pakistan’s trade union movement and women’s rights activism. At first glance, these two areas may appear separate: trade unions are largely male-dominated, while women’s movements, often led by [...]
Late on a work night, after a few drinks, I just wanted to text my partner back before a good night’s sleep. It might have been the fun energy of my partner’s texts, or the drinks, but in either case I was motivated to playfully use the AI bot [...]
In developing a summary of my recent book – Indian, Black and Irish: Indigenous Nations, African Peoples, European Invasions 1492 – 1790 – I focused on the interplay between capitalism, genocide, and racism. I was struck by how each of four distinct epochs over the past 500 years of [...]
For decades now, political regimes have been veering toward extreme nationalism and neofascism. A horde of authoritarian regimes, from Russia to Hungary, Poland to India, Brazil to Egypt, the Philippines to Turkey, to cite some of the most egregious examples, have increasingly achieved victory across the world, particularly in [...]
April 7, 2025 is “World Health Day.” According to the World Health Organization, its aims to promote “healthy beginnings” and “hopeful futures” for people worldwide. Juxtapose those aspirations to a quote from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, just one week earlier, which read: “They [...]
On the eve of New Year’s Day 1900, Frank P. Walsh (1864-1939) reflected on his life and decided a major change was in order. At thirty-five years old he had an expanding family and thriving career in corporate law. After growing up in extreme poverty in an Irish-American section [...]
Since Trump’s victory in the November elections, there has been no shortage of variations on Marx’s famous line in The Eighteenth Brumaire: "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time [...]
Election night was a disaster for Democrats. But contrary to what some pundits will tell you, it was not a defeat for “the left” as a whole. Despite the rightward national shift, democratic socialists still found success in races across the country. The Democratic Socialists of America won all [...]
“Rather than London, what if Marx had been in Lahore or Ludhiana in the mid-nineteenth century, and had to explain accumulation from that vantage point?” (62). This is one of the questions that animate a chapter in my book Labors of division: Global capitalism and the emergence of the [...]
