Archive | March, 2024

In the last section we explored the Axis of Resistance and its pursuit of material self-sufficiency, as well as Basel al-Araj’s incisive Mao-inspired analysis of asymmetric warfare against a technologically superior enemy.

This commentary provides an overview of carbon and biodiversity offsets as an expansion of global capitalism under the western environmental agenda marshalled against development in Africa.

In his March 6 State of the Union address, President Joe Biden declared, “We have the best economy in the world.” He said millions of new jobs had been created in the last three years and that unemployment was at record lows.

The Left has tossed Lenin’s corpse to the victors of history—both the Stalinists and their liberal opponents.

Israel has sought for years to dismantle the UN agency to destroy Palestinian refugees’ right of return.

Notwithstanding Mao’s admonition to his PLO visitors to avoid book worship—including and especially of his own works—his writings on guerrilla warfare had by then become canon, and for good reason.

The land of the October revolution: a country of women walking on the road to emancipation

In our time, pandemics will occur more often, spread more rapidly, and kill more people.

Arun Kundnani details the histories of liberal and radical anti-racism and argues that anti-racism ultimately means anti-capitalism.

Western capitals no longer treat Israel like a state, a political actor capable of slaughtering children, but rather as a sacred cause. So any opposition has to be a blasphemy.

As Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza enters its sixth month, Qiao Collective presents an urgent intervention from Charles Xu on the Palestinian resistance and the place of China, its people, and their revolutionary legacy in the global solidarity movement.

Preparing students for their futures requires nothing short of transformative systemic change in all aspects of society.

Greenland, part of Denmark, was a colony until 1953, after which it became a province of the Scandinavian country.

Ken Loach talks to Hilary Wainwright about his latest film, The Old Oak, and his long career dignifying the lives and struggles of ordinary people.

Have they considered digging a giant tunnel to get aid into Gaza as well? Or launching aid into Gaza by building a giant slingshot? Or perhaps they could invent some type of portal gun à la Rick and Morty?

Hearst Newspapers’ ‘science-informed’ weather reporting initiative promised to help keep readers safe, but the ‘Texas Weather Wonks’ have entirely ignored the primary driver of recent extreme heat—human fossil-fueled industry.

The early history of the Industrial Workers of the World has become the stuff of legend for the U.S. socialist left. Key to the legendary status of the early IWW is the notion that the organization was a “singing union.”

Vladimir Lenin, leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution, is one of history’s most well-known figures, and one of its most maligned. Mainstream culture vilifies him as a despot. 

Amidst the genocide against Palestinians and the war in Congo, human beings cling to hope. Saleem, in Rafah, dreams beyond the present, of Red Books Day and a brighter future.

Commission chairs say organizers of ballot violated statutes and ignored scientific evidence.