Geography Archives: Global

Marx and Engels demonstrated that ideas arise from material social relations rather than existing independently of them. Gramsci showed how those ideas, once institutionalised within culture, help reproduce the very material relations from which they emerged.

Kevin Crane takes on some common questions about Artificial Intelligence.

These military attacks deep inside Russia are in reality also aimed by the United States against China and against the Global South.

How can movements confront a digital capitalism that has become technologically advanced to an unprecedented degree?

A.I. Artificial Intelligence imagined a world where corporations sell artificial love to a society starved of human connection. Twenty-five years later, Silicon Valley is trying to build it.

Lindsey German on climate chaos and capitalism’s inability to deal with it.

Marxist historian of early modern France and Europe with wide-ranging interests in global history, political economy, the history of ideas and revolutionary struggles, Heller published ten books with a variety of prestigious university presses as well as with small and larger leftist imprints.

With extreme weather events worsening each year, and the world on track to surpass by 2030 the Paris Agreement’s attempt to limit global heating to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, connecting these disruptive and deadly events to climate change is a key part of the story.

What is true of the world economy as a whole holds true for countries like India which have enormous labour reserves inherited from the colonial times, reserves hidden away in particular in vast agrarian sectors.

Protests receive scant coverage in the U.S. media.

Dr. Foster discusses the strong philosophical connections between the ancient Greek philosopher and Marx’s thinking which go back to Marx’s dissertation.

Trump Is Building a Legal and Military Architecture to Invade Latin America. SARA VIVACQUA reports.

Culture, which has for so long—for too long—had only the weapons of the intelligence to defend it against the material weapons of the aggressors, that culture is itself not only an emanation of the spirit but also and above all a material thing.

If Marx in Capital lays bare the “hidden” abode of capitalist production, Joyce, in Ulysses, lays bare the hidden (yet all-too-visible) abode of modern reproduction, the arena that’s both the starting and end point of progressive politics, decreeing its victory or defeat.

A global survey found people in most countries see the United States as the biggest threat to the world, and prefer China over the U.S. These are the results of the EU-backed Democracy Perception Index.

Today, the United States is acting according to its own rules. On January 3, it sent a message not only to Venezuela but to the entire continent: it remains the most powerful military force on the planet, and it is prepared to use that force.

When SpaceX shares began trading on the Nasdaq on June 12, the trap was already set.

Why understanding a book means understanding the world that produced it.

Today India has a level of income inequality higher than at any time in the previous one hundred years, and one of the highest in the world

As a declining imperialist system lashes out to preserve its declining order, working-class organisation becomes not only necessary for the oppressed of the world but indispensable to human survival.