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Contexto Chino: What do Chinese citizens say about Ukraine?
Chinese people and the Chinese government are two different things on this issue. Among Chinese people there’s been huge energetic support for Russia, there was even a movement among people to buy all the Russian products from online shops in China and everything sold out very quickly.
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The erasure of Palestine and the JNF
The JNF is a case study of misrepresentations and fabrications to rationalize and justify profound immorality. There is a great deal of critical history documenting that antisemitism is not inevitable, intrinsic, or constant in history.
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The People of the Book
By “People of the Book” it meant principally Jews and Christians. These book-based religions were an intellectual innovation. The book-basis gave Christianity and Islam an expansive power and a cultural breadth that earlier religions had not had.
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The life of a great Marxist: Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022)
Aijaz Ahmad (1941-2022) died at home on March 9, surrounded by his books and papers, and by the warmth of his children and his friends.
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Crisis & Critique: Venezuela and the New Latin American Left
With leftist leaders winning back power in Latin America, how will they handle the “Venezuela issue”? Ociel López breaks it down.
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In praise of “Whataboutism”
The word “whataboutism” is used to silence and insult opponents of U.S. imperialism. It should be embraced as a means of revealing what is too often kept hidden.
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She, we… on the road to equality
In Cuba, we are fortunate to be part of a social project in which women have been protagonists and beneficiaries of the transformations achieved.
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The Naqab is now front and center in the struggle against Israeli settler colonialism
The story of the Bedouin village Sa’wa in the Naqab is the story of Palestine. Palestinian homes are being demolished and Palestinian families are being expelled to make way for the Israeli settler population.
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For the BJP, the Muslim is not just the message, it is the only message
The reason the party’s cartoon has evoked horror is because we have seen this sort of singular obsession with a targeted religious minority before and know where it leads.
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The gains of Nicaraguan women during the second Sandinista Government
Women in the Third World (and increasingly in the imperial First World) face problems of violence at home and in public, problems of food and water for the family, of proper shelter, and lack of health care for the family, and their own lack of access to education and thus work opportunities.
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Colombia is bleeding to death
Human rights movements recorded an increase of attacks against police stations, military bases, and civilians and reported assassinations and intimidation against social leaders in several departments. In February, the panorama has been no different.
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‘The Mexican American Experience in Texas’ takes a deep look at our sordid State history
Martha Menchaca’s new book examines events that have shaped the lives of so many in the Lone Star State.
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“My pink socialism became red as a wound”: Impossible interview from Ukraine
In 2000s Ukraine, Anatoli Ulyanov co-made online media dedicated to art, culture, and politics, and became recognized for his provocative writing style.
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Portuguese elections – ‘Socialist’ party wins but defeat for Left
Dave Kellaway looks at the Portuguese general election result.
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What Cuba can give the peoples, and has given, is its example
On February 4, 1962, in José Martí Plaza de la Revolución, the Second Declaration of Havana was ratified by popular acclaim, an emphatic response to the aggression, sabotage and crimes against our country, financed by the United States.
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Ballerinas on the Dole with Colleen Hooper
In this episode, we talk with Colleen Hooper (@hoopercolleen), assistant professor of dance at Point Park University. Hooper’s 2017 article in the Dance Research Journal, titled “Ballerinas on the Dole: Dance and the Comprehensive Employment Training Act (CETA), 1974-1982,” is the subject of most of our conversation.
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The Code of families, a document built among all Cubans
This week, Cuba began a historic process as Cubans started to going to more than 78,000 meeting points to discuss the new draft of the Family Code, a broad, complex, but very important process for Cuban families.
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Damn hard work
Clyde Bellecourt, Neegawnwaywidung (1936–2022)
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How to overthrow a life-threatening capitalism?
Capitalism jeopardizes the survival of humanity on earth. It reduces the price of the labour of reproducing labour power when it cannot make women do it for free within the family. How can we overcome it while putting the defence of life at the centre of our concerns?
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Hormonal wars: A brief regulatory history of puberty blockers
The use of political and military metaphors in medicine is a tradition dating back at least to the turn of the 20th century when immunologists regularly distinguished between “Self” versus “Other,” and the “body’s own” defenses armed against external (and internal) enemies such as bacteria, viruses, or even tumors.