Subjects Archives: Culture

CounterSpin interview with Mark Weisbrot on Javier Milei.

Samir Amin, the late Africanist, Marxist, and revolutionary theorist, wrote in 2019: “the proletariat seems to disappear just at the moment it has become more widespread.” Samir was not wrong.

In the early hours of Monday, May 15, 2023, the historical highway marker recognizing the birthplace of a renown feminist, anti-racist labor organizer and defender of reproductive rights was taken down. The marker was formally approved and erected by the State, following years of community effort on behalf of this locally-born female hero. It stood […]

Humanity cannot tolerate a 21st Century superpower, much of whose population perceives the world through the eyes of 17th Century land and flesh bandits.

A number of Israeli filmmakers have bravely turned the camera on their own society, revealing dark truths about their state and its history

Tel Aviv police refused to allow a silent vigil for World Children’s Day saying the event could “cause serious harm to public security.” Police have used this same rationale to attack and detain peaceful protesters around the country.

The powerful lobby and allied groups have poured money into defeating candidates who voice any criticism of Israel. Amid calls for a cease-fire in Israel’s war on Gaza, they’re back at it again.

Denying the Nakba is normally a central tenet of Zionism.

Food theft isn’t an indicator of criminality, but of a failing social system.

Since October 7, there have been five elements that indicate we may be seeing a paradigm shift in the hundred years’ war waged against the Palestinian people.

Its appeal depends largely on whether voters agree that Berlin’s economic woes can be blamed on the country’s Ukraine war policy.

One of the curiosities of our time is that the far right is quite comfortable with the established institutions of liberal democracy.

In most major media accounts of settler terror against Palestinians, Israeli settler-vigilantes invariably escape critical categorization beyond the moniker of “extremist.”  Portrayals of these perpetrators of violence invariably focus on the theme of fanaticism while presenting these figures as unsavory if misguided fringe elements in Israeli society.  Such characterizations are naïve and incomplete. 

Again the USA marked Veterans’ Day. Now all leading German parties also want such a “Veteranentag”—to honor all those past patriots who wore uniforms, voluntarily or not, and certainly to inspire many more reluctant young men or women to put on army boots and shoulder arms.… Not so many may recall that the earlier “Armistice Day” marked the end of World War One.

More than 10,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli armed forces in Gaza since 7 October, nearly half of them children, according to the most recent report by spokesperson for the Gaza Ministry of Health Dr Ashraf Al-Qudra.

The “Reign of Terror,” which lasted from the end of World War I to 1931, involved the murder of at least 60 wealthy, full-blood Osage Natives, but Grann argues that the actual total of suspicious deaths may number in the hundreds.

After more than a month on the picket line, autoworkers have reached a tentative agreement with Ford including massive wage increases, cost of living adjustments and the right to strike over plant closures. Now the deal goes to the membership, while strikes continue at GM and Stellantis.

Hate your office job? Overwhelmed by late capitalist society? Feel like you’re slipping into fatalism? Nathan Ó Broin has some tips on how to overcome your alienation.

In light of a pleasant surprise for those opposed to a far-right victory in Argentina, Manuel Bertoldi analyzes this latest success and what it means for the Argentine left.

Campesinos high up in the beautiful Andean valley of Gavidia are working to preserve the native potato and the way of life that goes with it.