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All Black feminisms ain’t created equal
Revolutionary African feminism (oftentimes used interchangeably with radical Black feminism) is understood as a feminist ideology that seeks to fundamentally transform and decolonize societal structures, and eliminate all forms of patriarchy and gender-based oppression.
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Venezuela: Gov’t to launch China-backed anti-poverty program
The Social Equality and Happiness Mission will adapt the Chinese experience to the Caribbean country’s reality to alleviate poverty and inequality.
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Objective conditions in Venezuela: Maduro’s defensive strategy and contradictions among the people
Venezuelan history and politics professor Steve Ellner examines Maduro’s economic policies and the contradictions that have arisen among the left.
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Freedom at work
There is always a demand for more jobs. But what makes a job good? For that, Immanuel Kant has an answer
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Review: “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine”
Historian Rashid Khalidi’s concise and at times personal take on a century of colonial conquest and resistance in Palestine is a highly accessible read that focuses on key events and themes.
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Intellectual Property, Knowledge Monopoly, and the Rent Economy
Never before has society had the ability it does today to bring together different communities and resources in order to produce new knowledge. It is social, universal labour, and its private appropriation as intellectual property under capitalism stands in the way of liberating the enormous power of the collective to generate new knowledge and benefit people.
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‘Standing up for trans people is self-defense for every worker’
Interview with Oct. 7 organizer.
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Colombia and Mexico call for new international anti-drug policy
Colombian President Gustavo Petro and Mexican President AMLO condemned the US militarized war on drugs, and called for a new international anti-drug policy from a non-militaristic vision, which promotes social justice and attention to the root causes
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Salvador Allende’s last words to the nation
“History is ours, and people make history.”
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Cuban soldiers in the Russian army?
The “news” that Cuban troops are participating in combat actions on the Russian side in Ukraine, that comes well seasoned with melodramatic stagings, is grabbing headlines in the main counterrevolutionary media and their affinities in the world.
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MANIFESTO: “Double Jeopardy: To be Black and Female”, Frances Beal, 1969
In attempting to analyze the situation of the black woman in America, one crashes abruptly into a solid wall of grave misconceptions, outright distortions of fact and defensive attitudes on the part of many. The system of capitalism (and its after birth… racism) under which we all live, has attempted by many devious ways and means to destroy the humanity of all people, and particularly the humanity of black people.
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Review: Vivek Chibber – “The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn”
The Class Matrix concisely and systematically argues the case for the continued importance of class for the radical left today. Vivek Chibber rigorously debunks various long held understandings that characterise radical left thought since the cultural turn.
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Olúfẹ́mi O Táíwò – “Elite Capture: How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (And Everything Else)”
The culture wars are back with a vengeance, if they ever actually left us.
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Luxurious Villa owned by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s family discovered on Egyptian Coast
The document indicates that the villa was purchased by Zelenskyy’s mother-in-law in May 2023. According to the document, the price of the villa is 150,000,000 Egyptian pounds or approximately $4,850,000.
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The people of Niger want to shatter resignation: The Thirty-Fourth Newsletter (2023)
In 1958, the poet and trade union leader Abdoulaye Mamani of Zinder (Niger) won an election in his home region against Hamani Diori, one of the founders of the Nigerien Progressive Party.
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Review – Left Feminisms: Conversations on the Personal and Political
‘Left Feminisms’ offers an inspiring and accessible overview of feminism from a diverse array of left-wing thinkers, writes Marin Scarlett.
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China’s Xi vows to support Cuba in defending Cuba’s sovereignty
China’s President Xi Jinping has pledged to support Cuba’s defense of its national sovereignty, opposing foreign interference and a U.S. economic blockade, and will expand strategic coordination with Havana.
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Six tropes to look out for that distort Israel/Palestine coverage
Malcolm X once declared,“If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” As stories about Israel/Palestine continue to bombard our screens and daily papers, readers and journalists alike need to remain aware of the pro-Israel pitfalls that pockmark establishment news coverage.
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Firearms remain leading cause of death among U.S. children
In 2021, among U.S. children who died by firearms, 82.6 percent were aged 15 to 19 years.
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Books are not a crime! Solidarity with Toko Buku Rakyat in Malaysia
The International Union of Left Publishers expresses solidarity with the Toko Buku Rakyat bookstore that suffered a raid by officers looking for “The Communist Manifesto”