... was not organized around parties but journals. The collective offered a way to learn theory and practice as political issues: it came up with political interventions that were urgent, of the moment, and had a theoretical cast. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 The Collective as a Political Model Fredric...

... in Paris in September, and his open letter to Maurice Thorez in October, in which he resigned from the French Communist Party. The editorial note places the two pieces in the context of the political currents of French colonialism at the time (on the eve of the Algerian revolution) and of Césaire's own...

...Aimé Césaire Aimé Césaire's Lettre à Maurice Thorez , which appears here in a new translation by Chike Jeffers, is the Martinican poet, playwright, theorist, and politician's letter of resignation from the French Communist Party (PCF). He first explains his resignation by making reference...

..., adjunctifying professoriate, casualized instruction, knowledge factory, and the global university. As an interventionist journal of tendency, work published over the past thirty years has considered responses along intersecting organizational registers of the professional association, industrial union and party...

... of the revolutionary praxis of the mass line perfected by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the 1940s. In the post-Mao period, the CCP sponsored political reforms that pursued an alternative strategy of democratic centralism — direct elections at the village level for villagers' committees and for deputies to local...

... authoritarianism, neoliberal urbanism, and exclusionary planning practices. Growing interest in the mobilizing capacity of the emerging urban-environmental imaginary, however, has not remained exclusive to the opposition. Rather than dismissing the critique entirely, the governing Justice and Development Party...

.... Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, 10 October Files 26/11 . Labor Party's archive, Beit-Berl,Israel. ____. 1962 . A letter: To His Highness the president, His Highness the prime minister of Israel, His Honor the minister of interior, His Honor the minister of police, His Honor the military governor of the Galilee, Mr...

... The Supreme Court in Yates v. United States (1957) ruled that the government had failed to prove that either the Communist Party as an entity or the convicted individually had sought to incite any persons to engage in or prepare for overthrowing the government; this ruling fi nally ended prosecutions...

... on opinion surveys, election results, political party pronouncements, academic analyses, and personal observations in lectures, group discussions, and formal interviews through- out this period. The article seeks to explore what can be learned from the negotiated settlement of a seemingly intractable...

... and political development? GLB: I was very fortunate that I came to Marxism by way of C. L. R. James and the Johnson-Forest Tendency. I sometimes wonder how differ- ent my life would have been had I been introduced to Marxism by the Communist Party...

... that the remarkable wealth of new work on the subject has marked a significant shift in historiographic orientation. More than twenty years ago, a number of historians began to revisit the participation of African Americans in the U.S. Communist Party, chal- lenging...

... struggle envisaged as the vehicle to achieve an ideal egalitarianism of lesser selves perfectly integrated into a superlative greater self. This cultural desire for an ideal collective transcendence is partly responsible for the tendency, in the discourses of the party-state and its critics alike...

... coming out of me cannot rise above the din. I find myself in the midst of it all helpless. . . . The cacophony gives way to a scene of religious fervor. Memories of my recent trip to India and the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP...

... the order of desire was manifested throughout the society as a whole, and then was repressed, liquidated, as much by the government and police as by the parties and so-­called workers unions and, to a certain extent...

... with a clear ideological perspective was the set of intellectuals closely aligned with the Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP). The CPP as a continua- tion of the Communist Party of India (CPI) had some roots in the worker...

..., Cantata evolved from concert party popular drama — an eclectic, traveling variety theater genre emerging in the early twentieth century — which, in turn, is based in the structure of Akan-­language Ananse trickster storytelling (Asansesem).10 In line...

... Era list five key concepts operating in those discourses — namely, nationals guo min), commoners ping min), the working class 級 gong ren jie ji), the party zheng dang), and theory li lun).13 These concepts were simultaneously popularized in political discourses, and they all played...

... party organ”6 to the stable viewing field of the living room, this essay pursues television as a spatial practice that extends across media forms and social space. An instructive cue...

... it from the famous Manifesto of the Communist Party of 1848, written by Pottier’s German contempo- raries Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, with its final lines: “Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!” (“Proletarians of all countries, unite Social Text 92, Vol. 25, No. 3, Fall 2007...