Wednesday, 7 June 2023
Asad Haider is an editor of Viewpoint Magazine and author of Mistaken Identity: Anti-Racism and the Struggle Against White Supremacy (Verso, Spring 2018).
Connecting the work of Palestinian novelist Ghassan Kanafani with Karl Marx’s thought, the national and land question in Gaza is one of existence, and a matter of life and death.
Our global situation should be understood not only in terms of a resurgent radical politics, but also in terms of depoliticisation.
The ‘mass movement’ has been pivotal to successful political change. Now, once more, it has a critical role in overthrowing neocapitalism and reckoning with ‘colonial modernity’
Socialist intellectuals often fail to understand that people think, and work out new political ideas in concrete situations.