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At this niche clinic, no stares, smirks, or stigma
How China’s first gender dysphoria clinic is slowly but surely transforming the transgender community’s access to healthcare.
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Re-visiting Red Vienna: as an urban project
The “Vienna Model” for providing subsidized housing is unquestionably one of the singular achievements of Austrian social policy and architectural production.
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What has the Trade “War” between the United States and China achieved?
On July 6, 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump unilaterally imposed a 25 per cent tariff on Chinese imports of around $34 billion, and further tariffs in 2018 and 2019—claiming that trade between U.S. and China had been unfairly skewed in China’s favour and needed to be rebalanced.
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A Company Family: The untold history of Obama and the CIA
Despite his liberal pretensions, Obama’s foreign policy was dreamed up at Langley—which should not have been surprising given his background
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Professor David Miller fired after Israel lobby smear campaign
The University of Bristol has fired Professor David Miller, a leading UK critic of Israel and its lobby.
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Canada supports fascism
While there is no one-size-fits-all definition, fascistic groups are generally violent, authoritarian and racist. They may claim to support freedom or the poor, but largely defend the rich and concentrated power.
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Canadian court strikes down Trudeau’s appeal against compensation to Indigenous children
The Justin Trudeau government has been stalling efforts by Indigenous groups to secure compensation to survivors of Canada’s discriminatory child services that has pushed Indigenous children disproportionately into foster care.
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Forbes reveals why the U.S. Government is trying to extradite Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab
The U.S. would far prefer to just quietly extradite Saab to Miami, use whatever means necessary to extract sensitive information from him, and then warehouse him in the world’s largest prison system.
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Does capitalism make us crazy?
Life under capitalist rule is perilous. We can’t survive on our own, and we can’t rely on society to support us.
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Ghana’s Socialist Movement: A Revolutionary Experiment in Communication
The SFG was born in 1993, first as a Marxist study group, at the beginning this group was made up of four people, today there are more than three thousand members organized in 25 collectives throughout the country.
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Building a movement to shutdown AFRICOM
In 2008, the establishment of the U.S. Africa Command, or AFRICOM, one of the eleven U.S. global command structures, began the new scramble for Africa, an effort by the United States to practice full spectrum dominance over the entire continent.
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Teaching politically and the problem of Afropessimism
As teachers, we’re tasked with educating our students, students who are increasingly, like their teachers, becoming politically conscious and called to act. Yet the dominant political theories and forms of action are inadequate for real revolutionary transformation.
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A Philosophy for Communism: Rethinking Althusser
A caricatured account of Althusser’s intellectual trajectory might read something like this…
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Pandora files link 14 latam presidents to offshore activities
Chile’s President Sebastian Piñera, Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso, and Dominican Republic’s President Luis Abinader are the active top politician implicated in the leak.
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China’s Fortune Cookie Crumbles: Michael Hudson and Renegade Inc.
Welcome to Renegade Inc. With China’s increasing wealth, Western investors want some of the action. One of those investors is a bullish gentleman called George Soros.
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What is imperialism? An introduction
Imperialism began when the colonizing powers had already divided the world between themselves. The only way to expand from that point on was to re-divide the colonial territories, which inevitably meant war. Such redivisions were at the roots of the First and Second World Wars.
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Global Lenin
The picture presented in the volume is one of the Leninists’ Lenin (with partial exceptions), but he and his co-editors certainly did not aim at conveying a composite historical account that would include every possible voice from Russian Orthodox priests’ through neoliberal pundits’ and new right fascists’, to the Vatican’s or the Taliban’s conception of Lenin and his historical role.
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Peasants and the Revolution
MARXIST theory develops with changing times, as capitalism itself develops, which is why it remains a living doctrine. On the question of the role of the peasantry in the revolutionary process that leads to the transcendence of capitalism, there have been significant developments in Marxist theory, which I propose to discuss here.
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The brutality of denying water to Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills
For the past 15 years, I have witnessed how the Israeli army cuts Palestinian communities from accessing water in order to expel them and take their land.
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A hard loss and a triumph: Berlin Bulletin No. 196, September 30, 2021
The most important election result is hardly discussed in the media—and when it is, then with satisfaction or joy. It is, in fact, a truly sad result. The Left (DIE LINKE) missed the red line level of 5%—but was miraculously saved by a special rule; if three or more delegates of a party win out in their own districts—with those first crosses—then their parties and their proportionate lists are saved, just as if they had reached 5%.