noamsw<p>- <a href="https://leftrenewal.org/lraw-en/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">leftrenewal.org/lraw-en/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> (Left Renewal in an Age of Waiting, by Ben Gidley and Daniel Mang – 1 October 2025)</p><p>--<--<br>In this pamphlet, we, two of the authors of For a consistently democratic and internationalist left, return to some of the fault lines within this text – which reflect some of the differences among the authors as well as fault lines in the coalitions we call for. </p><p>We wish to clarify ambiguities in our original text (as we see them) but also to deepen and broaden the analysis proposed there.</p><p># Summary</p><p>## First of all</p><p> We defend a consistently democratic, internationalist, anti-authoritarian left politics.</p><p> We argue for broad coalitions, but remain critical of nationalism, authoritarianism, and confusionism.</p><p> We oppose liberalism, but recognise the urgent need to form tactical alliances with liberals against the greater danger of the far right.</p><p> We call for a left that balances short-term realism with long-term utopian aspiration.</p><p>## Class and Interlocking Systems of Oppression</p><p> We argue for a renewed focus on class without falling into class reductionism.</p><p> We emphasise that class is shaped by and intersects with gender, “race”, sexuality, and other relations of difference and domination.</p><p> Our class politics is planetary: link up “core” and “periphery” struggles, instead of placing them in competition. </p><p>## Emancipatory Politics</p><p> We call for a re-imagining of what leftism means – bringing in the insights and themes of feminist, queer, ecological, anti-racist… social movements.</p><p> We reject both reactionary anti-woke backlash and identity absolutism, and call for broad, emancipatory coalition-building.</p><p>## Feminism and Gender Politics</p><p> We argue that a feminist transformation of the left is essential and overdue.</p><p> We are pro-transfeminist; our politics is shaped by queer and sex-radical feminisms.</p><p> Gender and sexuality are material.</p><p>## Micropolitics and Subjectivity</p><p> We stress the need for radical left approaches to affect, emotion, and interpersonal power.</p><p> We call for reflection on how projection, fetishisation, and nostalgia shape left politics.</p><p>## Nationalism and Collective Identities</p><p> We ultimately oppose all forms of nationalism, recognising its inherently exclusionary logic.</p><p> While we support struggles against national oppression, we want to strengthen anti-nationalist and democratic tendencies within such movements.</p><p> We advocate for planetary belonging over ethnonational attachments.</p><p>## “Race”, Racism, and Atlantic Bias</p><p> We challenge the Atlantic bias in dominant left conceptions of “race”.</p><p> We insist on a more nuanced and global understanding of racialisation and of imperialism.</p><p> We warn against left romanticisation of “anti-Western” powers like Russia and China.</p><p>## Religious Fundamentalisms</p><p> We oppose all religious fundamentalisms, including Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and Buddhist variants.</p><p> We retain the term “fundamentalisms” to highlight these movements’ authoritarian use of religion and state power.</p><p> We oppose liberal Islamophobia while defending emancipatory secularism.</p><p>## Environmentalism and Extractivism</p><p> Our ecological vision of emancipation is critical of extractivist versions of left politics.</p><p> We call for rethinking abundance and transforming human relations to nature and non-human life.</p><p> The left needs to recognise the centrality of anti-extractivist, indigenous and peasant movements to a global emancipatory politics.</p><p>## Democracy and Liberalism</p><p> We defend the existing limited forms of political democracy while working towards a deeper democracy.</p><p> We criticise the authoritarianism within those parts of the left that dismiss individual rights and glorify past and present repressive regimes.</p><p> We advocate tactical engagement with electoral politics, rejecting both abstentionism and maximalist detachment.</p><p>-->--</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LeftRenewal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LeftRenewal</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gauche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gauche</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ReligiousFundamentalisms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReligiousFundamentalisms</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nationalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Nationalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Feminism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CollectiveIdentities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CollectiveIdentities</span></a>#GenderPolitics <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/confusionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>confusionism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Environmentalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environmentalism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Extractivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extractivism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EmancipatoryPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EmancipatoryPolitics</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Class" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Class</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/InterlockingSystemsOfOppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InterlockingSystemsOfOppression</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Micropolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Micropolitics</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Subjectivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Subjectivity</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Race" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Race</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AtlanticBias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AtlanticBias</span></a></p>