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Damning imperialism: Marx’s writing on China
Working for the ‘New York Daily Tribune’, Marx excoriated the British empire’s opium trade that brought China under its influence with a staggering human cost, writes NICK MATTHEWS.
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‘The State of Israel vs the Jews’ — important new book chronicles Israel’s spiritual demise
Sylvain Cypel’s “The State of Israel vs. The Jews” shows how bereft of human decency Israelis have become in their treatment of Palestinians, and how much Jewish moral patrimony has been given up in creating, supporting, and tolerating a Jewish State.
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As Omicron rages, teachers and students fight for safety measures in Chicago and elsewhere
Chicago Teachers Union members voted by 77 percent on January 4 to go fully remote until effective Covid mitigations to protect educators and students were approved by members and enacted, or until the current Covid surge subsided.
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Challenging the poverty of words: Interview with progressive poet Frederick Pollack
San Francisco State University professor Daniel Langton has called Frederick Pollack’s poems “necessary” because “do what poetry should do—grapple with the important.”
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Unions allege petrol bombs, intimidation as strike intensifies at South African Dairy giant
Amid threats and intimidation, the workers’ action at Clover has been strengthened by worker solidarity as well as the increasing support of civil society for its boycott campaign.
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Michael Löwy: ‘Revolutions’
‘Revolutions’ is a major contribution to our understanding of the principal social movements which shape our modern world.
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How Education International is pushing teachers’ unions into the 4th Industrial Revolution
Why have teachers’ unions been pushing ed-tech that is driving schools into the 4IR? Look no further than Education International, a global federation tied to UNESCO & the WEF that dominates most teachers’ unions in the U.S. and beyond.
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Why I’m hoping Corbyn launches a new party
After the damage Starmer has done, the left would need decades to rebuild from within the party – and we don’t have decades. The crises facing working people are already urgent, argues CHELLEY RYAN
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Jason E Smith: ‘Smart Machines and Service Work: Automation in an Age of Stagnation’
Smith begins with Friedrich Pollock’s definition of automation as a ‘technique of industrial production [in which] the machines are “controlled” by machines’, and shows that this trend of automation, while increasing labor productivity in the industrial and manufacturing sector, is also the reason for a lack of automation in the service sector.
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No letup in economic and social decline
Economic and social conditions have been worsening for decades at home and abroad, especially in the context of the neoliberal antisocial offensive which was launched more than 40 years ago by the international financial oligarchy. But they have been getting even worse in recent years and over the past two years in particular.
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Why the Anglosphere is united in an anti-China front
Part five in an eight part series investigating the crisis in Canada-China relations
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Labor power and wages after women’s labor market incorporation in Argentina
In the past years, there has been a very much welcomed flourishing of Marxist Feminist analyses.
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Nepal’s largest hydropower station starts operation
With the completion and operation of the Upper Tamakoshi hydroelectric power station, Nepal has not only resolved a long-standing problem of intermittent power shortages, but also realized the transformation from an electricity importer to an exporter.
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Prosecutors hit anti-pipeline protesters with felony charges to send a message, defense says
One county prosecutor asked oil company Enbridge for reimbursement to help with some of the prosecutions clogging up rural courts.
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Yes, there really were only two COVID deaths in mainland China in 2021. Here’s how they did it
As the Omicron variant causes record levels of infection in the United States, the end of the pandemic seems as far away as ever. But far from preparing a robust response to defeat the virus, the Biden administration is preparing to surrender and encourage the public to “learn to live with” COVID indefinitely.
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131 years ago today, the U.S. Army massacred native Sioux at Wounded Knee
Marked Culmination of a Long Process of Genocide That is Still Sugarcoated in Most History Textbooks.
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Two exemplary Twentieth-Century Socialist Latin American lives: José Carlos Mariátegui and Orlando Letelier
The two books we will analyze in this essay, Bread and Beauty: The Cultural Politics of José Carlos Mariátegui by Juan E. De Castro, and Alan McPherson’s Ghosts of Sheridan Circle: How a Washington Assassination Brought Pinochet’s Terror State to Justice, are very different in subject matter, discipline, and style.
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Argentina warns of legal action after documents reveal Britain shipped nukes to Falkland Islands during 1982 conflict
ARGENTINA warned that it may take action after leaked documents revealed that Britain shipped 31 nuclear weapons to the Falklands during the 1982 conflict.
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Relevance of the Manifesto of the Communist Party in the 21st Century.
The death of communism has been pronounced time and time again, but every day it is still fought against without respite or pity. There is no popular act or uprising which the bourgeoise does not see as a sign of communism, no nationalist or progressive opinion which is not branded as communist.
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COVID, capitalism, and collapse: A roundtable discussion with NYC nurses and teachers
Labor journalist and NewsGuild organizer Chris Brooks sat down with a group of New York City nurses and teachers to talk about how the institutions they work for are collapsing and what labor activists can do about it.