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No climate future without system change
Warnings about how the capitalist mode of production is putting pressure on the earth’s ability to handle all forms of stress have continued to come at an increasing pace.
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The other side of ecocide
The other side of ecocide thrives in the fertile ground of radical socioecological theory.
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Billionaire dynasties: vampires on humanity
The first decades of the 21st century have been a gilded age for the world’s super-rich. While the mass of humanity has struggled through successive economic crises, accelerating climate and environmental breakdown and now a devastating global pandemic, the billionaire class’s wealth has piled up to ever more dizzying heights.
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Food riots show the need for a basic income grant
As rioters target supermarkets, activists call on the government to help those who cannot survive amid rising prices and mass unemployment.
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China and the supply chain: a comment on the June 2021 White House review
Contrary to rhetoric from Democrats and Republicans, the U.S. has an economic interest in trade and peace with China
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The United States tries to take advantage of the price Cubans are paying for the blockade and the pandemic
This small island of 11 million people has created five vaccine candidates and sent its medical workers through the Henry Reeve International Medical Brigade to heal people around the world.
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Cuba faces looting, whose hands are behind it?
The Cuba “protest-story” is not a single incident. Similar foreign interference happened in other countries. The Cuba-protest-incident is not going to be last attempt by the Empire.
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Imperialism, Migrant Labor, and the Nation: The Canadian Example
By centering “human capital” and providing more pathways to work and residency for higher-skilled migrants, despite lower-skilled migrant workers having a far greater desire to temporarily migrate and permanently settle, Canada is able to continually reap the benefits of both high-skilled and low-skilled labor without having to socially reproduce either.
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York professor expands global understanding of Karl Marx and Marxism with seven books in three years
Driven and passionate about the significance of Marx’s contributions in politics, sociology, the critique of political economy and philosophy, Musto has delivered seven books within the last three years.
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Rethinking Japan’s Red Years
The New Left is generally seen globally as emerging from the aftermath of the “revelations” about Stalin in Khrushchev’s “secret speech”’ at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in early 1956, and the reaction to the Soviet invasion of Hungary later that same year.
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Richard Lewontin: the dialectical biologist (1929-2021)
Rare among scientists, Lewontin’s science and politics were guided by a conscious philosophical outlook, which he staunchly and unapologetically defended throughout his life.
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A preemptive counter-revolution in Haiti?
Haiti Liberté editor and writer Kim Ives talks about the possible motivations behind the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, revealing developments about a possible uprising that the U.S. press rarely reports.
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Rich country hypocrisy exposed by vaccine inequities
World Health Organization Director-General notes, “The global failure to share vaccines equitably is fuelling a two-track pandemic that is now taking its toll on some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people.”
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North America’s heatwave hell
As temperature records were smashed all up and down the Pacific coast in the last week of June, reports emerged of rolling blackouts, buckling roads, damaged wires and newly sparked wildfires.
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Cuban president Díaz-Canel: Revolutionaries to the streets!
This speech provides crucial context and information being covered up by the corporate media in the United States.
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“Unchallenged Orientalism”: Why Liberals suddenly love the lab leak theory
The lab leak theory bears a striking resemblance to the WMD hoax of 2002, not only in the fact that one of its key players is literally the same journalist using potentially the same anonymous sources, but also in the bipartisan political and media support it enjoys.
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The new ‘Republic of Fear’
The Indian state today seems to proclaim that everything in the country is in danger–whether it is religion, culture, communal harmony or public peace and tranquillity.
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10 new albums that resist racists and fascists
Here’s a look back at June’s political news and the best new music that related to it.
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The war on woke: how socialists should respond to the culture wars
The Tories are trying to further divide the working class by fuelling culture wars, socialists must fight back on our own terms, argues John Westmoreland
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I’ve been a critical race theorist for 30 years. Our opponents are just proving our point for us
Seemingly overnight, my obscure legal specialty became a national lightning rod. What would CRT say about that?