Subjects Archives: Culture

Karl Marx’s description of religion as the ‘opiumof the people,’ in his 1844 A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, constitutes one of his most famously misinterpreted statements.

Deeming the African National Congress’s electoral strategies as beyond the pale, the South African Communist Party has committed itself to a new strategy.

THE World Bank has recently published a list of Gini coefficients for 61 countries relating in some cases to income distribution and in others to consumption expenditure distribution.

Ernesto “Che” Guevara (born 14 June 1928 – died 9 October 1967) was an Argentine revolutionary. He was a very important leader in the Cuban Revolution. His famous picture has become a symbol of rebellion around the world.

IF KEIR STARMER’S stumbling government needed a further wake-up call, the latest opinion poll should provide it.

Mutunga celebrates the Gen Z Revolution in Kenya, highlighting the successes of their collective leadership through analysis of the Kenyan government’s attempt to stifle celebrations of the Martyrs of the Gen Z Revolution who died in June of 2024.

Mészáros’s study points out that an integral part of capital’s incessant drive to expand involves overcoming two interlocking contradictions.

In one of the most enduring axioms of revolutionary integrity, Amílcar Cabral—African liberation theorist, freedom fighter, and martyr—urged those engaged in the struggle for liberation and justice to “Tell no lies, claim no easy victories.”

CounterSpin interview with Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats.

Ellen Meiksins Wood (April 12, 1942–January 14, 2016) was an important American-Canadian thinker and historian.

A new documentary that began airing on PBS this month (The Atomic Bowl: Football at Ground Zero—and Nuclear Peril Today) highlights one of the most surreal stories from World War II.

UFCW Local 1518 in British Columbia has announced that 500 drivers in Greater Victoria unionized.

Activists say the City University of New York is escalating its repression against Palestine activism by suspending a student leader and terminating the positions of four faculty members who have been active in protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

To equate a spray can of paint with a suicide bomb isn’t just absurd, it is grotesque.

Cartoonist Mr. Fish (real name Dwayne Booth) posted an update to his Patreon on March 20 headed “Fish: Laid Off!”

Zohran Mamdani, the choice of Democratic Party voters in New York City, is anathema to the billionaire class. So much so that the New York Times elevated the work of a white supremacist in an effort to derail what the people want.

As protests shake Panama, youth-led JR-16 stands at the forefront of resistance to U.S.-backed repression and neoliberal rule.

The victory of Jeannette Jara in the ruling coalition’s primary is a major triumph for the people and the left.

Diabetes is a silent epidemic, causing death and suffering on an unimaginable scale.

The Department of Justice has quietly declared the Epstein case closed—no client list, no criminal conspiracy, and no further disclosures.