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The new undesirables
Sivamohan Valluvan and Eleanor Penny unpack neoliberal attitudes to migration and ‘low-value’ humans.
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Trump Says U.S. to exit nuclear treaty, Russia vows retaliation
Trump said the United States will develop the weapons unless Russia and China agree to a halt on development.
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UN report: revolution needed to prevent climate disaster
There is a famous old left phrase, ‘socialism or barbarism’: there is no choice but to find a way to stop capitalism’s destructive logic, because if left unchecked it will create catastrophe.
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LEAKED: Trade group including Facebook, Google to ‘oppose’ EU climate efforts
Leaked document details BusinessEurope’s campaign to undermine EU attempts to cut climate emissions.
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Deadly, cowardly U.S. drone wars in Africa
War is romantic only when it is limited to the confines of a sanitized imagination. Movies that portray heroic soldiers vanquishing demonic enemy combatants or rescuing fallen comrades may whip up jingoistic war fever, but horrific images of real children and elders maimed, scarred, dismembered and killed during armed conflicts have the power to end wars.
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Intersectionality: A Marxist Critique
Intersectionality, a way of thinking about the nature and causes of social inequality, proposes that the effects of multiple forms of oppression are cumulative and, as the term suggests, interwoven.
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The ambivalent nuclear politics of Fallout video games
The late French filmmaker, François Truffaut, once claimed “There’s no such thing as an anti-war film”—referring to the adventure and thrill of combat, the (usually) clear-cut heroes and villains, and the opportunity for the film-maker to indulge in spectacular pyrotechnics and loud, cinema-shaking explosions of sound.
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Venezuela ditches dollar after U.S. sanctions hit private sector
International financial transactions using foreign currency were reportedly blocked, agroindustrial and pharmaceutical sectors said.
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The monstrous anger of the guns
‘We are losing the fight against famine’, said the UN’s Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock to the UN Security Council on 21 September. He was talking about Yemen, which has been bombarded by the monstrous anger of the Saudi-Emirati guns from March 2015.
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Marx at 200
“Proletarians [Proletarier] of all countries, unite!” It is with these ringing words that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels famously conclude their Communist Manifesto in 1848 (MECW 6: 519; MEW 4: 493, sometimes my translation).
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A Marxist History of Capitalism
An important work of Marxist history and theory restores class struggle to central place in explaining how capitalism arose and grew, and can eventually be overcome.
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Dossier 9: How Kerala fought the heaviest deluge in nearly a century
In the summer of 2018, the Indian State of Kerala was hit by severe rains and flood–the heaviest in nearly a century. The deluge affected 5.4 million people in this southern Indian state with a population of 35 million.
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A big rally and a Bavarian vote
Last weekend was surely the most complex in ages! Were the results favorable for “the good side”?
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Fighting and winning against U.S. psychological cyber warfare
Proceed with caution: the CIA, NSA, FBI and DOD are your ‘friends’ on Facebook, writes Lauren Smith.
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November elections and the art of voter suppression
Voting rights violations are emerging across several states with less than a month before the conclusion of midterm elections in the United States.
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Confronting Climate Change in a deeply unequal world
The global reaction to two landmark new reports suggests the world could well lose that confrontation.
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David Duke announces support for Jair Bolsonaro
The former Klu Klux Klan leader said Bolsonaro “sounds like one of us.”
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In the wake of Nepal’s incomplete revolution
In the aftermath of Nepal’s near revolution, diverse Maoist leaders are attempting to regroup and move forward again.
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Reply to Trump: Global warming explained in three easy tweets
On October 14, on the CBS television program 60 Minutes, the President of the United States admitted that climate change is not a hoax. It is probably happening, he said, but he doesn’t know what is causing it, and he thinks it might change back.
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Confronting imperialism means winning back the power to imagine alternatives
Vijay Prashad talks to Daniel Whittall about socialism, anti-imperialism and the new global research network Tricontinental.