Subjects Archives: Culture

The beginning of the left movement in Sri Lanka goes back to 1935.

The Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) leader’s campaign was built on sweeping reforms, tackling corruption and ensuring economic relief.

As the first city-states started to form in ancient Mesopotamia, fed by a patchwork of farms across the fertile land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, grain was stored in large siloes (in case of future shortages), and a surplus was generated for the first time, that was accumulated and controlled by a warrior class drawn from Mafia-like, oligarchic families, assisted by a priesthood that kept records and legitimized their rule via a mandate from the heavens.

According to UNICEF, the lack of schooling for younger children “threatens their cognitive, social, and emotional development. Parents are reporting significant mental health and psychosocial impacts among children, including feelings of increased frustration and isolation.”

Before he was caught with an AK-47 on a golf course near Trump, Ryan Routh went to Kiev to fight for Ukraine’s military and recruit for its International Legion. Routh told U.S. media he “had partners meeting with [Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense] every week.”

The collusion of the mainstream media with this regime has drawn a screen over the real situation our country is in.

In the hands of corporations, the hidden costs of AI will continue to be paid by working people across the globe.

Lumumba had seen hope in the African diaspora to invest what capital and skills it had in building the Congo. Arghiri Emmanuel made similar recommendations to Antoine Gizenga, Lumumba’s former deputy prime minister who led the rebel socialist Free Republic of Congo from December 12th 1960 to January 1962.

In the dialectical spiral of culture, poems, songs, and stories inspire us to act and depict our actions, which in turn inspires others to do the same.

Peoples Dispatch spoke to Aurora community organizer Nate Kassa on CBZ Management’s weaponization of anti-migrant rhetoric.

Argentina woke up on September 2 with the University of the Mothers (UNMA) fenced off and surrounded by members of the national police, who prevented workers from accessing the center.

Election season in the U.S. is witch hunt season, and the White House is determined to burn some ‘witches’–anyone arbitrarily deemed a ‘Russian agent’. Might you be one?

For the Caracas-based La Minka collective, culture and bread-baking go hand in hand with the project of making a socialist commune.

The calculated and cruel violence suffered by Gisèle Pelicot has shaken the world to its core, yet her demand to make the trial public and shift the shame to the perpetrators of these acts, has inspired many.

Emmanuel Macron has named a prime minister from the right-wing party that came fourth in June’s elections.

No migrant wants to leave their home and be treated as a second-class citizen by countries that forced their migration in the first place.

Is the AfD a fascist party? Björn Höcke, its boss  in Thuringia, one of its three best-known national leaders and its main rabble-rouser, has never concealed his admiration for Germany’s days of swastika glory.

Critical cultural historical perspective is not easy to obtain.

Reginald D Hunter is the latest target of pro-Israel provocateurs feigning victimhood. Time to bring down the curtain on this pantomime, says Rivkah Brown.

Every day it is proven that some characters who have come to power in Latin America under the propagandistic cloak of projecting leftist positions have only been disguised, or rather infiltrated, to favor the United States in its goal of maintaining political and economic control in the region.