Geography Archives: Global

Welcome to Marx in Surplus 05. For this entry we step back to 1837 and read a single letter written by a 19-year-old law student to his father.

Google’s AI workers want to cure cancer, not kill for the US and Israeli military. That’s why they are now trying to unionise for the first time ever, writes an employee at DeepMind.

UN report predicts crippling heat waves, polluted air, species extinctions, economic crises.

Marx and Engels did not merely theorise in the abstract. They analysed concrete events, corresponded extensively with revolutionaries and thinkers, and engaged politically through journalism, the First International, and personal networks.

Trump’s strategy envisages the U.S. extricating itself from the neo-liberal regime while forcing the global south to remain entrapped within it.

The world needs an alternative structure of accumulation, beyond neoliberalism, if U.S. hegemony is to be decisively challenged.

Marxism remains the most powerful tool for understanding capitalism, but it is not a formula for building socialism.

This Earth Day the Anti-Fascist Football Coalition declares that the United States and its Zionist partner have disqualified themselves from the community of civilized nations.

Marx, Surplus Value, and the Structure of Capitalism.

Health professionals and researchers working at the intersection of environment and health often bemoan the relative paucity of health considerations in climate policy, with health only recently (since 2023) starting to become more integrated into the formal UN climate negotiations.

This week’s post is a collaboration with Alex Hobson. You can find Alex’s work here: Class Chip. Alex is doing some very creative and interesting work, so please do swing by and give him a follow/subscribe.

The risks inherent in that possibility of closure are now painfully realized, but they were not factored in before.

Karl Marx eagerly devoured writings on all aspects of history, culture and science.

Certain features associated with neo-fascism have manifested themselves quite clearly during its ascendancy in India.

How to Make Revolution Liveable.

A Leftist Reading of the Palantir Technologies Manifesto.

The way Iran has been able to stand up to the West has become a source of admiration across the formerly colonised world. Where does that confidence come from?

Why the social brain of humanity is capitalism’s next enclosure

The planet, our democracy, our courts…

This is the fourth entry in the Marx in Moments series.