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The crisis in the radical left

Today we not only face a growing threat from the far right, but a continuing crisis of disorientation in the radical left. One aspect of this is the failure of much of the radical left to fight the tacit red-brown alliance between Russian imperialism and the far ...

Pete, I disagree with how your last post is stated. It's one thing to vote for the lesser of two evils in order to oppose the looming danger of a Trumpist dictatorship. This is only one part of what needs to be done to fight the Trumpist offensive, but it is important to support defeating the ...

Pete and Frank and everyone: When posting on CVO Talk, it is best to avoid using URLs that begin mail.google.com, mail.yahoo.com, or mail.anything-at-all.com.

They are links to someone’s email account. So it is only under special circumstances that such URLs work for anyone except the user of that ...

Nero fiddles while Rome burns

A debate on whether it is important to fight against the Trumpist plans to steal or disrupt the November elections has taken place on the Marxmail list. Much of the radical left is complacent about the elections. Some of it thinks it doesn’t really matter who wins ...

Those demonstration solidarity movement with the Venezuelan people face a choice. They are denouncing the monstrous crimes of US imperialism against Venezuela. But should they defend the present government of Delcy Rodriguez which cooperates with Trump. Or should they defend the Venezuelan people ...

Pete, I looked briefly at those websites for the six groups of the United Left Platform that the Tempest article gave links for..

They are for mass struggle against the Trumpists, and the Tempest article does include support for struggle against Trumpist attacks on elections. However, these six ...

John Reimann at Oakland Socialist has warned that

"Donald Trump is organizing a legal version of January 6, 2020. If he succeeds, all other democratic rights will be sharply curtailed. "

See his article "Trump organizing legal version of January 6th, 2020"
https://oaklandsocialist.com/2026/08 ...

Sorry I didn't notice this until now. TIm, the URL you sent would only work for you, not others (and maybe doesn't work for you now, either). Note that the URL starts with "mail.yahoo.com". That means it is pointing to something in your yahoo mail inbox. When the URL is used by someone else, it ...

The next major follow-up to No Kings Day is May Day Strong on Friday, May 1, 2026.

Just to start discussion:

May First is supposed to be "No Work, No School, No Shopping". Pay Day Report presents it as many local "general strikes". ( https://paydayreport.com/map-65-cities-hosting-may-day-general ...

Contrasting Michael Roberts, Adam Smith, and Karl Marx on value:
“So far no chemist ever discovered value in a pearl or a diamond”.


by Joseph Green

Just over a week ago, on March 14, Michael Roberts posted “Adam Smith: 250 years”, on his blog. It began with a bit of exaggeration: “This week 250 ...