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About Yanis Iqbal

Yanis Iqbal is a student and freelance writer based in Aligarh, India. Yanis can be contacted at yanisiqbal[at]gmail.com.
  • The Workings of Commodified Education

    The workings of commodified education

    Originally published: Socialist Project - The Bullet on February 11, 2022 (more by Socialist Project - The Bullet)  |

    The product of pedagogical labour becomes something set apart from life and abstracted into the commodity of “degrees” which can be bought and sold on the educational market.

  • Keelvenmany martyrs memorial by Communist Party of India Marxist

    The logic of Hegemony

    Originally published: Dissident Voice on September 14, 2021 (more by Dissident Voice)  |

    Considering the dialectic between force and consent, political society and civil society, it becomes clear that the CPI (M) in Tripura is engaged in a popular-democratic struggle aimed at the construction of the broad-based hegemony of progressive forces.

  • Capitalism and Alienation

    Capitalism and alienation

    Originally published: Countercurrents on August 2, 2021 (more by Countercurrents)  |

    Capitalism is deeply unjust. It is a system under which labour power has itself become a commodity and is bought and sold on the market like any other object of exchange

  • Pedro Castillo

    Breaking the Stasis: The Left writes a new chapter in Peru

    Originally published: Socialist Project – The Bullet on June 14, 2021 (more by Socialist Project – The Bullet)  |

    On June 10, 2021, the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) published the results of the second round of elections to elect the new president of Peru, with the winner being Pedro Castillo, the candidate for the leftist party Peru Libre (PL).

  • The Imperialist Origins of Saudi Arabia

    The imperialist origins of Saudi Arabia

    Originally published: Socialist Project on April 27, 2021 (more by Socialist Project)  |

    Why is Saudi Arabia, a Sunni absolute monarchy, enthusiastically supported by the West, considered a global promoter of ‘democracy’? This question is rarely asked.

  • Notes on Revolutionary Hope

    Notes on revolutionary hope

    Originally published: Revolutionary Strategic Studies translation on March 2, 2021 by Internationalist 360 (more by Revolutionary Strategic Studies translation)

    Humanity stands at a dangerous crossroads: a conflict between making profits and saving human life is clearly emerging, with the latter being sacrificed by the ruling class for the former.

  • COVID-19 vaccine distributed in British Columbia

    Global vaccine apartheid

    Yanis Iqbal

    A vaccine alone will not be enough to end the pandemic as it must also be made available at an affordable price and allocated in a way that achieves equity. It follows that suspending intellectual property rights related to COVID-19 is the most appropriate solution to our current situation of global vaccine apartheid.

  • American Capitalism’s Endless Military Drive

    American capitalism’s endless military drive

    Originally published: Orinoco Tribune on January 6, 2021 (more by Orinoco Tribune)  |

    The U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) has announced that weapons exports have risen by 2.8% to $175 billion in 2020. In their annual briefing on U.S. arms sales, the Pentagon and State Department cold-bloodedly described this increase as an “accomplishment.”

  • Thomas Sankara

    Thomas Sankara: An icon of revolution

    Originally published: Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal on November 19, 2020 (more by Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal)  |

    October 15 was the 33rd anniversary of Thomas Sankara’s death. On this day, he was murdered by imperialist forces at the tender age of 37.

  • Paramilitaries financed by the U.S. and Colombian governments are captured by conventional security forces and members of the Bolivarian Militia

    The nonexistent peace in Colombia

    Yanis Iqbal

    Class struggle in Colombia will escalate as the hopes of the peace deal are continuously shattered by the blood and gore of political killings. Without any material policies, the guarantees of the Peace Agreement have turned out to be hollow.

  • In Colombia social and regional inequality has become evident, coupled with more than 50 years of armed conflict. Photo: Brandon Pinto – Unimedios.

    The hunger pandemic in Colombia

    Yanis Iqbal

    The unchecked growth of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America is tearing apart the socio-economic fabric of the countrieslocated in that continent.

Monthly Review Essays

  • US Imperialism in Crisis: Opportunities and Challenges to a Global Community with a Shared Future
    Sam-Kee Cheng A late 1940s Soviet poster showing a US military service member lounging on top of a German factory, smoking a cigar. The text beneath reads DER DOLLARIMPERIALISMUS [dollar imperialism].

    1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]

Lost & Found

  • Strike at the Helm: The First Ministerial Meeting of the New Cycle of the Bolivarian Revolution
    Hugo Chávez Mural of Chávez in Caracas. (Univision)

    On October 7th, 2012, after hearing of his victory as the nation‘s candidate with 56 percent of the vote, President Hugo Chávez Frias announced from a balcony in his hometown that a new cycle was beginning the very next day, October 8th.

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    Official: U.S.-Israeli deception gave Iran false security ahead of attack
  • New Pan-African Path
    Forging a new Pan-African path: Burkina Faso, Ibrahim Traoré, and the Land of the Upright People
  • Activist Greta Thunberg stands near the stage during a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Mannheim, Germany, on Dec. 6, 2024. Uwe Anspach | AP
    From media darling to persona non grata: Greta Thunberg’s journey
  • A black and white photograph of Paulo Freire later in life. Freire is bald, bearded, and wears large eyeglasses.
    Pedagogy and Class Power: Reclaiming Freire in an Age of Reaction
  • Senior Israeli official talks with Israel’s Channel 12 News
    Sky News smears Greta Thunberg as a Nazi to justify IDF attack
  • Grygorii Osovyi, President of the Federation of Trade Unions of Ukraine, arrested, Trade Union House seized.
    NATO-backed Ukraine escalates war on labor: Union leaders arrested, halls seized
  • Fire engulfs a classroom at the Fahmi Al-Jargawi School in Gaza City following an Israeli strike, May 26, 2025.
    One day, everyone will have always been against this
  • SpaceX, X (formerly Twitter), and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks with a person during a live interview with Ben Shapiro at the European Jewish Association’s symposium on antisemitism in Krakow, Poland, Jan. 22, 2024. Photo | STR | NurPhoto via AP
    Meet the Think Tanks behind MAGA’s new free speech crackdown
  • Colombian president defends social justice and labor reforms amid right-wing threats.Photo: Presidencia Colombia/X.
    Colombian President Gustavo Petro denounces U.S.-backed coup plot and urges popular consultation for social justice
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    Staging for a strike? U.S. quietly moves bombers as Israel prepares to hit Iran
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