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War, Imperial Decline and the Communal Horizon: A Conversation with Robert LongaWar, Imperial Decline and the Communal Horizon: A Conversation with Robert LongaRobert Longa is a founding member of the Fuerza Patriótica Alexis Vive, a Venezuelan grassroots organization promoting communal construction. Based in Caracas’ 23 de Enero barrio, Longa has played a central role in building El Panal Commune and in advancing a strategic vision of communal power as the backbone of the Bolivarian Revolution. This conversation […]
Dividends Are Not Royalties: The SAT and Surplus ValueDividends Are Not Royalties: The SAT and Surplus ValueMichael Parenti, the Marxist author and scholar, died on January 24, 2026 at the age of ninety-two. This article originally appeared in Monthly Review 45, no. 5 (October 1993). It has been frequently noted that IQ examinations, while professing to measure innate intelligence, are riddled with racial, gender, and class biases. Thus a low-income, inner-city youth, […]
“International Solidarity is the Oxygen of the Revolution”: Celebrating ICAP’s 65th Anniversary in Cuba“International Solidarity is the Oxygen of the Revolution”: Celebrating ICAP’s 65th Anniversary in CubaOn December 29, 2025, the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) celebrated its 65th anniversary in Havana. I was part of a delegation convened by Dr. Rosemari Mealy that attended the celebration along with 240 representatives of solidarity organizations from thirty-two countries around the world. Together we defied the escalating U.S. efforts to […]
Stalingrad and the Politics of ForgettingStalingrad and the Politics of ForgettingThe year 2026 marks the eighty-third anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad. The battle was not merely a decisive military engagement in the Second World War, but a historical rupture that reshaped the trajectory of the 20th century. Fought between August 1942 and February 1943, it marked the first total strategic defeat of Nazi Germany […]
Empire’s Ideology, with Free Pizza: How the Council on Foreign Relations Shapes Higher EducationEmpire’s Ideology, with Free Pizza: How the Council on Foreign Relations Shapes Higher EducationThe Council on Foreign Relations shrinks the political imagination of learners and deploys the interests of the elite among an increasingly precarious American populace.
