Subjects Archives: Culture

MAT COWARD tells how 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero—soon to be gracing panto halls around the nation.

Israel is coming apart at the seams, both on a cultural and political basis.

By now, you may have seen the story making the rounds. It’s about a University of Oklahoma student named Samantha Fulnecky who received a zero on a psychology essay, filed a discrimination complaint, and got her trans graduate instructor placed on administrative leave.

The Trump administration added a new feature to the official White House website that lists U.S. news outlets it frames as “fake news,” in an effort to delegitimize reports that take a critical stance toward the government.

And so it is written—tragically, predictably—that Venezuelans and Americans will bleed because power prefers spectacle to accountability.

Looking back to Engels’s reflections on the ILP’s emergence in the 1890s offers a revealing lens on the forces shaping a new working-class politics in 2025, says KEITH FLETT.

ACoM recently reported on an immigration raid in Santa Maria, California, involving a U.S. citizen believed to be at the center of a visa fraud ring.

As Joe Torres, co-author of “News for All the People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media”, recounted, the local white-owned press didn’t just fuel the massacre; it also helped cover it up.

YOUR Party’s founding conference brought thousands of people to Liverpool at the weekend.

Whether Your Party will be socialist or just social-democratic is about its relationship to extra-parliamentary struggles more than its programme, argues Mike Wayne.

What was once hailed as a vehicle for empowerment has, for millions of women and girls, become a source of fear.

Venezuela prepares for its 4th Popular Consultation, empowering citizens to select over 10,600 community projects amid a participatory governance push.

Gabriel Rockhill is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. He earned PhDs at Paris 8 University and Emory University. An accomplished scholar, he has published works for many outlets, both in the United States and in France. He is the editor of the English edition of Domenico Losurdo’s book Western Marxism: How It Was Born, […]

The Cuban and Venezuelan people are offering hard-won lessons. It is our responsibility to study them—and to act.

The new corporate version of Robin Hood is a betrayal of the anti-colonial hero of the people of yore, suggests DENNIS BROE.

China’s zero-tariff policy for African countries is also part of its socialist internationalist commitment to strengthening economic ties and promoting industrial investment that supports local production in Africa.

TONY BURKE recommends a new podcast about the legendary Nigerian musician and political activist FELA KUTI.

Scapegoating newcomers has become a convenient distraction from policy failure.

Mayor to Mayor: a conversation between Bernie Sanders and Zohran Mamdani.

Duncan’s election is significant because he has sharply raised the problems of racism and police repression at a time when the Trump regime and servile state governments are attempting to stop any discussion of the real history of this country and racist oppression happening right now.