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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

  • 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.”

  • 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.

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Money on the Left Episodes

  • Democracy Needs Public Media w/ Victor Pickard
    Yanis Iqbal

    Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, […]

  • Public Employment & Training from the Great Society to the “End of Welfare as We Know It”
    Yanis Iqbal

    This month, Scott Ferguson speaks with Mario Rendina about the politics of public employment and training in the United States as they shifted over the course of the late 20th century. Rendina brings over thirty years of hands-on experience working within municipal government in Tampa Bay, Florida—specifically within Hillsborough County. Grounded in his extensive career […]

  • The Public Banking Institute
    Yanis Iqbal

    In this episode, we speak with Walt McRee (President) and Peter Winslow (Vice President) of the Public Banking Institute (PBI) about their past and ongoing advocacy for public banking. Founded in 2011 by author Ellen Brown and a core collective of advocates, PBI aims to break the monopoly of Wall Street’s private banking system by […]

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Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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