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Ukraine: Touring an Aidar Dungeon
Shortly after the U.S.-backed Maidan coup in the winter of 2014, in conjunction with Crimea’s secession from Ukraine and union with Russia in March of that year, protests began to break out in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions in the east of the country, known together as Donbas.
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Three steps to Black liberation
If history should be any teacher, it has taught us this: the state has no interest in serving the needs of the masses of Black people in this country, who are poor and working class.
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Killed by capitalism: U.S. government shrugs shoulders as COVID death toll hits 1 million
The United States has just marked a horrific milestone as the official COVID-19 death count passes one million.
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Carrot and stick: U.S. pressure and extortion to break Latin America’s ties with Russia and China
In the last two weeks, the State Department has deployed an ambitious blackmailing persuasion program on countries located in the so-called “Western Hemisphere”, with the aim of limiting their trade and cooperation ties with Moscow and Beijing.
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Corine Pelluchon, “Das Zeitalter des Lebendigen. Eine neue Philosophie der Aufklärung” [“The Age of the Living. A new philosophy of the Enlightenment”]
Lucidly argued and touching in its appeal, Corine Pelluchon’s latest book ‘Les Lumières à l’âge du vivant’ will be a theoretical source both for ‘green’ and ‘red’ movements alike.
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Lula wants a Latin American currency
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who’s once again in the running for the presidency, says that “God willing” he hopes to see the creation of a Latin American currency capable of overcoming the region’s dependence on the dollar.
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Beyond Eurocentrism
With the publication of Orientalism in 1978, Edward Said would become one of the most influential scholars of our era. The book transformed the study of the history of the modern world, as it offered insights into how racist discourses created and maintained European empires.
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Solomon Islands PM warns of invasion by Australia and U.S.
Responding to a series of threats of intervention by the U.S. and Australia, Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare warned on Tuesday that his small Pacific islands country was in danger of invasion by the allied powers.
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Supreme Court’s draft opinion on abortion sends jolt through U.S.
If the justices do not uphold the “Roe v. Wade Decision,” abortion would immediately become illegal in 13 states, while Republican-led states are already moving to enact restrictive laws.
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Political education for all
Political education is absent from our current system. The left should be providing alternative means of obtaining it, writes Shamime Ibrahim.
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Rosa Luxemburg and the German revolution
The carnage of World War I was ended by revolution in Germany. It began in November 1918 with a mutiny of sailors in Kiel.
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Why China stands firm on dynamic zero-COVID policy
In a country of some 1.4 billion people, any public health issue is of significant concern, and the coronavirus outbreak is no exception.
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Labor organizing in the U.S. in 2022: the anti-worker, anti-union corporate agenda
Late capitalism has exposed the drastic inequalities inherent to our neoliberal economy.
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Marxist Ecology in the light of Contemporary Ecological Thought: reflections on the Ontological questions in dark, deep and Marxist ecology
There has been an extensive debate within Marxism concerning the question of nature and its concomitant questions about the interaction of nature and culture or nature and society.
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Everyone’s anti-war until the war propaganda starts
Nobody thinks of themselves as a warmonger, but then the spin machine gets going and before you know it they’re spouting the slogans they’ve been programmed to spout and waving the flags the flags they’ve been programmed to wave and consenting to whatever the imperial war machine wants in that moment.
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Amazon Labor Union and the awakening of the American working class
The United States is the most powerful capitalist nation in the world. Socialism cannot ultimately achieve victory without the success of the American working class. The struggles we are seeing now are just the beginning of the awakening of this colossus that will change the course of history.
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Marxist anthropology in a world of surplus population
Anthropologists, who have always been curious about the lives of people outside Europe and outside wage-labor, have good reason to be interested in the concept of the surplus population.
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Abdala, with three doses, demonstrates 92.28% efficacy
Communist Party First Secretary and President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, on behalf of Cuba, congratulates researchers who in 13 months achieved a global milestone.
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Fossil fuel lobbyists continue to seize on Russia’s war in Ukraine to push long-term interests
The unfolding crisis is now a common—and effective—talking point for corporate interest groups seeking regulatory relief.
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Eva Bartlett reports from Mariupol: “Ukraine forces used scorched earth tactics”
Yes, there is destruction, that’s what happens when Ukrainian forces, and Nazis, embed in residential areas & occupy apartment buildings. It isn’t Raqqa, and if you aren’t aware of the U.S. illegal coalition in Syria’s full destruction of Raqqa, look that up.