The Regrettable Century
The old forms of the left are moribund and the new forms are stupid. We're making a podcast that discusses the need to organize a dialectical pessimism and develop a salvage project capable of sparking a new workers' movement for socialism. A clean, honest, and unsentimental melancholy is required; we are cultivating one and would like to share it with you.
The Regrettable Century
To Front or Not to Front: The Question of "Popular Frontism"
The boys get together and talk about the triumphs and failures, the uses and misuses, and the love and hate for the concept of the Popular Front.
Haslam, Jonathan. “The Comintern and the Origins of the Popular Front 1934-1935.” The Historical Journal 22, no. 3 (1979): 673–91. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2638659.
Communists, Coalitions, and the Class Struggle
https://www.cpusa.org/article/communists-coalitions-and-the-class-struggle/
The Popular Front Didn’t Work
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/10/popular-front-communist-party-democrats
France’s Popular Front: Lessons from the 30s
https://www.counterfire.org/article/frances-popular-front-lessons-from-the-30s/
The Popular Front, Then and Now
https://www.rs21.org.uk/2024/06/29/the-popular-front-then-and-now-france-and-the-elections/
The United Front
http://isj.org.uk/the-united-front/
Uruguay’s Frente Amplio: From Revolution to Dilution
https://upsidedownworld.org/archives/uruguay/uruguays-frente-amplio-from-revolution-to-dilution/