Geography Archives: Global

If AI is to succeed for capital, it will only be at the expense of most working people and their families.

Toward a method of critical inquiry.

Most accounts of commodity fetishism stop at the definition: under capitalism, relations between people appear as relations between things.

The question is not whether AI will enter the workplace. It already has.

In May, the New School’s Student Senate sanctioned its Hillel chapter for its ties to Israeli war crimes and violations of international law. With 850 chapters worldwide, students everywhere should join the campaign to “Drop Hillel.”

The Productive Lever of Sovereignty.

In the popular 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada, Miranda Priestly, the primary antagonist, played brilliantly by Meryl Streep, is the editor-in-chief of the luxury fashion magazine Runway.

On historical interpretation, the false equivocation of academic revisionism & politically motivated negationism, and the need to reclaim terminology.

The ‘Wages of Dreamwork’ is an ambitious and timely contribution to debates on labour, culture and social reproduction under contemporary capitalism. Drawing from autonomist Marxism, feminist theory, critical management studies and the history of avant-garde artistic practice, Stevphen Shukaitis and Joanna Figiel examine how creativity, desire and the search for meaningful activity have become increasingly central to capitalist accumulation.

Tech monopolies—Apple, Nvidia, Google, Microsoft and Intel—depend on mineral supply chains that run through eastern Congo.

In contrast, global military spending climbed to nearly $3 trillion in 2025, marking the 11th consecutive year of growth.

We believe that it is not international observers, but the Chavista grassroots—the people who have sustained this revolutionary process for twenty-seven years, who buried their dead and resisted sanctions and destabilization, and who are still, slowly and stubbornly, building communes—who should carry the most weight.

Marx and Engels incorporated in their writings a critique of the way that capitalism destroys the environment but it is only in the last half century that environmental concerns have become an integral part of the fight for socialism, writes the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School.

An in-depth article of Magnifica Humanitas Encyclical and its call to dismantle corporate algorithmic control, protect national sovereignty, and restore the dignity of human labor.

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.

Evidence of catastrophic shifts in the climate is mounting alarmingly, yet leaders show no signs of action, so anti-capitalism is the only route to solving the crisis, argues John Clarke.

Welcome to the sixth entry in the Marx in Moments series. These are three-minute reads examining key Marxist concepts in a clear and accessible way. This week, we focus on so-called primitive accumulation — Marx’s account of the violence that made capitalism possible, and the reason he insisted on those first two words.

While the capitalist system rewards short-term cycles, building a dignified future is a slow task that requires disciplined organisation and an enduring struggle to bring forth the social forces of a new world.

Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System.

Neoclassical economics had cast Marxist dependency theory (and other heterodox schools of thought) as a relic—a Latin American intellectual curiosity from the Cold War era, now superseded by globalisation, global value chains (GVCs), and the triumph of market-led development.