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Providing a useful understanding of our past has never been more difficult. Schools at all levels have been attacked for teaching (or discussing) almost anything that disturbs the status quo or makes students think.

A Palestinian family in Gaza says they witnessed the summary execution of 15 men when Israeli soldiers raided their apartment last month.

In exploring the notion of critical media literacy, the Marxist concepts of base and superstructure and Antonio Gramsci’s theory of cultural hegemony provide an essential framework for understanding the complex dynamics of media, power, and ideology.

Pasquinelli’s “Eye of the Master” provides a materialist analysis of AI and technology, which Kevin Crane finds to be an excellent antidote to all the nonsense and hype spouted about AI.

Lenin on the economic essence of war.

This is extraordinary because the states supporting Israel, above all the United States, have claimed the high moral and legal ground and lectured the states of the Global South about the importance of the rule of law.

The theoretical position informing “Imperialism” extended Marxism in at least five major ways.

On 11 January, Adila Hassim, an advocate of the High Court of South Africa, stood before the judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and said: ‘Genocides are never declared in advance. But this court has the benefit of the past 13 weeks of evidence that shows incontrovertibly a pattern of conduct and related intention that justifies a plausible claim of genocidal acts’.

A documentary filmmaker long associated with the Bolivarian Revolution talks about the history of its audiovisual production and the challenges ahead.

CounterSpin interview with Sebastian Martinez Hickey on minimum wage.

As investors worldwide drop cash on Israeli start-ups for ‘battle-tested’ weapons, defence tech CEOs are poised to be the war’s only victors.

The mother of a now-dead Israeli soldier captured by Hamas militants on October 7 says it was the Israeli military, not Palestinian resistance fighters, who killed her son.

Feeling helpless does not mean being useless. It is possible to support Palestinians from afar.

The modern food system is being shaped by the capitalist imperative for profit.

A documentary filmmaker and teacher tells the story of Venezuela’s groundbreaking community media movement.

Is it a coincidence that the world’s foremost terror organization is being revived just as the U.S. struggles under a multi-front assault on its hegemony in West Asia? More curiously, both ISIS and Washington’s targets are exactly the same.

A commemoration of the life of comrade Sekou Odinga, a lifelong New African revolutionary, former political prisoner, and unstoppable force in the Black liberation movement.

If this is what the “rules-based international order” looks like, would we not, perhaps, be better off without it?

The world’s five richest men have more than doubled their fortunes from $405 billion to $869 billion since 2020–at a rate of $14 million per hour– while nearly five billion people have been made poorer, reveals a new Oxfam report on inequality and global corporate power.

As part of our series commemorating 100 years since Lenin’s death, we repost Dragan Plavšić’s take on a classic text.