Facebook’s cryptocurrency initiative furthers an agenda of neoliberal financialization, writes Josh Gabert-Doyon
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Marx and race: a Eurocentric analysis?
here is currently a welcome call to “decolonise” universities and academia.1 This is about more than demanding the removal of statues of old imperialists.
Duqu 2.0, lead actor on electric cyber-attacks against Venezuela
A PLC is a programmable industrial computer to automate industrial processes. Its architecture has similarities to computers that are at the hands of anyone: power source, CPU (Central Processing Unit), communication modules and inputs / outputs. The control programming that is designed for these devices will be done according to the process or processes that […]
U.S. aggression against Venezuela and how do you “eat” that
“Each number presented here corresponds to the face of a Venezuelan woman, a man, a boy, a girl. It is not only about the economic impact on imports or production, it is about the impact that these economic aggressions have on the guarantee of the human rights of each Venezuelan” –Pasqualina Curcio, The Impact of […]
Extinction Rebellion targets Canary Wharf transport
‘Our aim is to create moments in time when humanity stops and fully considers the extent of the harm we have done’.
Ecosocialism: For a fighting ecological trade-unionism
How can we reconcile social struggle and environmental struggle? This question poses problems for trade unionists.
The Latin American left’s setbacks: what does it all mean?
Steve Ellner and Alan Freeman talk about the Pink Tide and what came after in Venezuela and in the Latin American region.
Failure of Trump tax cuts
President Trump’s corporate and income tax cuts enriched corporations, satisfied those already employed and flush with money, and did little to stimulate the national economy.
A chronicle to define what collectives are in Venezuela
The first time I saw a collective in action and what it’s capable of, I was just a little kid. I’d been, about nine, maybe ten. That takes us back to 1969, in the hills of Los Frailes in Catia, in the upper part of the Macayapa neighbourhood, at the foot of the Waraira Repano.
Defiant resistance: the Venezuelan crises and the possibility of another world
Bob Dylan once said, “Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.” February 23rd, 2019, was the day that Juan Guaidó, the self-proclaimed President of Venezuela, had “authorized” “humanitarian aid” to enter Venezuela, an attempt to force the Maduro government, and thus the Venezuelan people, to their knees.
Where next for the student climate strikes?
Today marks the latest international day of action for the student climate strike movement. The task ahead is to channel the energy and radicalism of the strikes into the labour movement and fight for a social alternative.
Cyclone Idai, sanctions and capitalism
Western capitalists are to blame largely for climatic changes that causes natural and environmental disasters. Poverty, which is a result of the diabolic and pernicious economic sanctions, has forced the poor to build poor and weak structures that do not withstand the heavy winds and storms.
Is there any way out of the U.S. student debt crisis?
By working three jobs while in college and with some financial assistance from her mother, Karen Hawkins managed to pay off her undergraduate loans of US$12,000 eight years after completing her bachelor’s degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Venezuela confronts fabricated chaos
Against all imperialist logic, the Venezuelan people refuse to be subjugated.
The U.S. Government has been monitoring Venezuela’s electricity system for over a decade
The North American intelligence agencies and their government’s attention and monitoring of the electricity situation in Venezuela is long-standing. This was confirmed by more than 1,000 documents released by Wikileaks which mention the status of the National Electric System in Venezuela and the Simón Bolívar Hydroelectric Plant located in Guri.
Rock’s role in fighting fascism
The National Front (NF) was on the rise in the UK in the mid-1970s. It was the envy of other far right organisations, in particular its ideological cousin, France’s Front National (FN). A decade later the NF was broken and the FN’s star was rising. Why was the NF defeated while the FN went from […]
Silicon Valley and “communication weapons of war”
What a Western Electric advert from 1944 can teach us about Google and Facebook.
U.S. is manufacturing a crisis in Venezuela so that there is chaos and ‘needed’ intervention
America has for years been waging an economic war against Venezuela, including debilitating sanctions which have dramatically affected the state’s ability to purchase medicines, and even mundane replacement parts needed in buses, ambulances, etc.
Marxists, so-called Marxists, and parliamentary socialists
John Rees tries to distil some sense from recent tabloid exchanges, and looks at the real relationship between Marxism, parliament and Jeremy Corbyn.
An open letter to the Congressional Black Caucus on the U.S.’s attacks on Venezuela and Cuba
Greetings. We write to urge you to support the international and domestic efforts to thwart the Unites States’ unlawful attempts to change the existing governments in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Republic of Cuba.
