Subjects Archives: History

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.

RON JACOBS welcomes the political lessons for today, about organisation and withdrawal from conflict, made by an erudite and conversational biography.

The revolutionary road opened on 26 July 1953, when a group of young rebels led by the 26-year-old Fidel attacked the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.

The revolutionary legacy of Fidel Castro, who would have turned 100 this week, reminds us that breaking free from neocolonial plunder demands the rigorous construction of productive capacity and an unyielding commitment to human dignity.

A lot of contemporary scientific views are essentially dialectical. They don’t use that language.

The beauty of Marx’s analysis in ecological terms is that he provided the only theoretical approach that connected society and nature.

The McCarthy Era and the controversies of the 1960s and 1970s might not seem terribly relevant to a new generation of activists. But the old questions remain, and the left still needs to confront them.

China’s Marxist economic policy was developed to deal with a specific country at a specific stage of development. But this does not mean that it is not relevant to other countries.

Countless historians writing Cherokee history have maintained that the majority of Cherokees remained at peace with the American colonists during the so-called American Revolution.

No amount of money can repair the damage which has been caused to the African people through the transatlantic slave trade, classical colonialism, and today’s neocolonialism. No amount of money can pay for that damage. The essence of reparatory justice is a just reconstruction of the world, an entirely new world.

The backlash against a landmark national museum exhibition on the Nakba exposes an enduring effort to silence Palestinian voices.

Apolinario Mabini is the most neglected or ignored figure in the pantheon of heroes of the revolution against Spain and the United States.

These military attacks deep inside Russia are in reality also aimed by the United States against China and against the Global South.

These two conflicts, the aerial and the environmental, are interconnected. Both reflect a struggle for survival shaped by a Pakistani state that has prioritized military spending over water security, geopolitical interests over ecological planning, and the interests of large landowners over those of small farmers.