Subjects Archives: Culture

Like the people of Gaza after the January 17, 2025 ceasefire there, thousands of the 1.4 million Lebanese people displaced by Israeli bombings are streaming home in long lines to their villages, even though Israel reduced scores of towns to rubble.

Karl Marx wrote, “Prostitution is only a specific example of the general prostitution of the laborer.”

When No Other Land won this year’s Academy Award for best documentary feature, corporate media outlets didn’t exactly roll out the red carpet.

As climate change makes vast mineral deposits accessible, the island’s 56,000 residents face unprecedented pressure from Trump’s territorial ambitions while struggling to maintain their traditional way of life, writes JOHN GREEN.

Despite many obstacles, popular feminism is advancing grassroots struggles in Venezuela.

Prison journalist Kwaneta Harris on “the hole” at Lane Murray Unit: “It is not uncommon for guards to withhold food unless we take our shirts off.”

False charges of antisemitism in the U.S. healthcare community are spreading anti-Palestinian racism and doing irreparable harm to our work and obligation as healers.

In his famous “March to the Sea” in 1864, during the final phase of the Civil War, Union General William T. Sherman faced a problem.

The success of ‘I’m Still Here’ at the Oscars is a tribute to the Brazilian people’s resistance to military dictatorship – and offers a warning over US encouragement of Brazil’s far-right today.

Fifty years ago, the UN designated 1975 as the International Year of Women.

Matthew Quest questions why C.L.R. James is not widely recognized as a founder of African Studies.

Baffled by the voters who shunned Bidenomics and complained about the economy, Democratic Party pundits are convinced that voters are simply ignorant of the facts.

Under the auspices of the Bolivarian Revolution’s call for people’s power, a self-organized Indigenous commune looks for state support to enhance its traditional production methods.

As we continue in the struggle for economic justice, it is important to examine how white Christian evangelism shapes our efforts to alleviate poverty. Casting poverty as a form of moral failing encourages people to disengage from the social, cultural, and structural causes of poverty and ignores the role that white Americans play in the global proliferation of poverty conditions worldwide.

An Indigenous commune in the Venezuelan Amazon that builds on Huo̧ttö̧ja̧ and other traditions.

On dozens of occasions I’ve responded to Kurtz’ racist, violent anti-Palestinian posts on X. Six weeks ago I wrote an article..

The fall of the Berlin Wall enabled neo-fascist activity to spill over into East Germany, laying the groundwork for the strengthening of right-wing forces today.

The arrest of a well-known Palestinian bookstore’s co-owner was part of a pattern of raids and repression, booksellers say.

The hard right is making serious ground globally. But, while increasingly powerful, their ideas are not hegemonic. Now is not the time to despair, but to fight for a better world.

Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier finally returns home today. In the last moments of his presidency, Joe Biden commuted his two consecutive life sentences to home confinement.