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DADA NEW YEAR: Tristan Tzara’s Boom, Boom, Boom
I know I’m not the only one thinking that our world has lost its mind. It’s not easy being some relatively sane person nowadays. At the best of times, politics is bankrupt. At its worst, it’s toxic, dominated by demagogues, liars and cheats. Their falsehoods fly wholesale, rarely disgruntling masses of people, let alone damaging a demagogue’s political career.
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Requiem for a dream: 100 years after the founding of the USSR
The worst crime the USSR committed, the one for which it will never be forgiven, was to have been a shared hope for a more just, more dignified and more humane society.
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Union organizing surged in 2022: Let’s push for a radical labor movement in 2023
More workers are forming independent unions, untethered from the AFL-CIO and other established labor groups.
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“Do not forsake me, comrade”
The continuing relevance of High Noon.
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Nicaragua is world’s #1 country where citizens feel at peace, Gallup poll shows
A poll by mainstream firm Gallup found that Nicaragua is the No. 1 country in the world where citizens feel at peace. Nine of the top 14 countries are in Latin America. But the U.S. constantly attacks the Sandinista government and imposes sanctions on it.
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Netflix’s ‘Descendant’ shows capitalism continues to oppress African descendants
In the spring of 1860, wealthy businessman Timothy Meaher made a bet that he could illegally kidnap and ship Africans from Africa to Mobile, Alabama, without being detected by federal officials.
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The right turns anti-LGBTQ hate up to 11
In the past few years, the right-wing media have become laser-focused on transgender issues, not always attacking trans people individually, but instead claiming that children are being “groomed” to adopt “radical gender ideology,” and that rights for the trans community are infringing on the rights of children, women and Christians.
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Israel imposes more repressive measures on Palestinians following UNGA vote
Apart from imposing travel restrictions on Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki, Israel has confiscated USD 39 million from the body which will be transferred to the ‘victims of terrorism’ fund for Israeli citizens.
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Honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King: Unite to fight racism, fascism and war
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. famously said in 1967, “The bombs dropped on Vietnam explode at home.” Malcolm X expressed something similar when he said, “Chickens come home to roost.”
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A Review of Derek R. Ford’s ‘Teaching the Actuality of Revolution: Aesthetics, Unlearning, and the Sensations of Struggle’
History doesn’t happen because a small group of people share a complete political identity; it happens because masses of people shed their timidity, risk their reputations, livings, freedom, and lives, and let the actuality of revolution guide their every move.
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White Lives Matter more in Ukraine
The open white supremacy and fascism exhibited in Ukraine are conveniently swept under the rug. Nazis are bad, unless they serve the interests of the U.S. state.
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Shelley’s revolutionary poetry
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major English Romantic poets—and arguably the greatest.
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Men and menstruation: A young anti-caste thinker fights menstrual stigma
Rushikesh, a resident of Aurangabad, got selected for the prestigious Period Fellowship in 2021, and worked for fifteen months in a predominantly tribal district in Jhabua, Madhya Pradesh.
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‘Every issue is a disability issue’
CounterSpin interview with Rebecca Vallas on disability economics.
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The war on Christmas drag shows
GOP endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ “groomer” rhetoric inspired armed fascist groups to harass queer events, spurring a diverse, celebratory community response.
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The moral panic around drag makes even less sense in the UK’s pantomime season
The moral panic around drag queens currently sweeping America has arrived in Britain.
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Dossier No. 59: Religious fundamentalism and imperialism in Latin America: Action and resistance
It is impossible to disconnect religion from the political projects of domination and liberation in Latin America.
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“Everything that is human is ours”: The political and cultural vanguardism of Antonio Gramsci and José Carlos Mariátegui
Within the heterogenous tradition of Marxism there are two diametrically opposed conceptions of popular culture: the elitist and vanguardist.
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Ghost stories of capitalism: Racism is REAL, and it’s a class struggle
In today’s political climate, the word racism has become taboo.
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‘Jewish dream’ turns into nightmare: ‘fantasy Israel’ faces moment of truth
The definition of Israel as an Apartheid State by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch is a maturation of a long process of framing and reframing the Palestine issue.