Subjects Archives: History

The late Palestinian painter Sliman Mansour left the world a precious legacy: an art whose symbolism mourns the longest exile of our age.

Rehearsal never really stops: people plan, argue, and intervene in their own reality all the time, so the distance between stage and audience was minimal from the start.

On 20 September 2006, Hugo Chávez stepped up to the granite podium of the United Nations General Assembly. A day earlier, from that exact same spot, the President of the United States, George W. Bush, had spoken. Chávez crossed himself, said that the room still smelled of sulphur, and the hall burst into laughter and […]

Rosa Luxemburg’s Herbarium: Radical Ecology and the Global Plantation is a handsomely crafted and inspiring volume to be savored and shared, thanks to the uniquely exquisite sensibilities of Rosa Luxemburg and the splendid labors of the book’s editor, Claudia Horn.

Cartography, Colonial Power, and the Strategic Politics of Geography.

For the Global South, development cannot be achieved by imitating the capitalist West; it requires breaking imperialist dependency through the defence of sovereignty, socialist planning, and the transformation of social relations.

The Report makes clear that sexualized violence is not an episodic add-on to occupation and genocide. Rather, it is a foundational, legalized aspect of the Zionist project.

Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

A quarter-century has passed since the terrorist attack that killed almost 3,000 people in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.

The UK government has firmly rejected this Monday Jamaica’s demand for financial reparations for its role in the transatlantic slave trade, as a Jamaican delegation formally requested £10 billion in compensation from King Charles III.

The revolutionary period left more than a founding image. It created institutions, social expectations, and forms of political work that continue to move within the society built upon them.

The Vietnam War was a horrific war rooted in U.S. government lies that resulted in the deaths of some two million Vietnamese civilians.

We refuse to allow a balance of power based on genocide and the crushing of all resistance to be celebrated as peace.

To understand why work feels so meaningless today, we need to look at what human labor had to become for capitalism to come into existence.

A new study warns that Ukraine’s expanding system of memory laws has turned historical narratives into a tool of state enforcement, deepening restrictions on public discourse and intensifying efforts to shape national identity amid the conflict with Russia.

At this hour, solidarity begins with a clear demand: the United States and Israel must end their illegal war, and they must retreat.

August 18 marked 90 years since the murder of Federico García Lorca, the great Spanish poet and dramatist who was executed by Franco’s fascist forces near Granada in 1936, during the first weeks of the Spanish Civil War.

We have to get back the kind of public intellectuals, real left intellectuals, Marxist intellectuals who are not just academics.

204 Atomic Bombs, 66 Urban Areas. “Wipe the Soviet Union Off the Map”

I found, in studying Epicurus more deeply, that the central question is really the question of human freedom.