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Anti-Anthropocene vote is ‘null and void’
Commission chairs say organizers of ballot violated statutes and ignored scientific evidence.
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[UPDATED] Another lost Cold War document: Zhou Enlai’s March 8, 1952 denunciation of U.S. germ warfare
When the U.S. began its aerial germ war bombing campaign over No. Korea & China in Winter 1952, China’s Foreign Affairs Minister publicly accused the U.S. of dropping infected insects in Northeast China.
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People(s)-Centered Human Rights and the Black Radical Tradition
The West’s fiction of “human rights” has been weaponized by neoliberals to rationalize naked imperialist interventions. But if human rights are to have any relevance for the oppressed, they must be “de-colonized” and given meaning by the oppressed themselves: a People(s)-Centered Human Rights (PCHR).
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Unravelling human history: the rise of class society and women’s oppression
Anthropology, since its inception, has been an ideologically contested–discipline, and the same is true of both primatology and zoology when they have been used to explain human evolution.
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EP Thompson: Historian for the working class
On the centenary of Thompson’s birth, Dominic Alexander celebrates his monumental work, “The Making of the English Working Class”.
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Missing links in textbook history: Colonialism
Providing a useful understanding of our past has never been more difficult. Schools at all levels have been attacked for teaching (or discussing) almost anything that disturbs the status quo or makes students think.
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Lenin for the New Year
As the 100th anniversary of Lenin’s death approaches, here are ten books to help renew the Leninist tradition for the crises ahead, compiled by Dominic Alexander.
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John Pilger (1939-2023)
A bright star in the firmament of justice has gone out. One of the greatest journalists of our era has passed away.
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The end of American Thanksgivings: A cause for Universal rejoicing
Humanity cannot tolerate a 21st Century superpower, much of whose population perceives the world through the eyes of 17th Century land and flesh bandits.
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Israel-Palestine war: This is not about Hamas. It’s a 75-year colonial war
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine is inseparable from the racialised structures of Zionism, which receives unbridled support from Europe and the US
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A paradigm shift in the hundred years’ war on Palestine?
Since October 7, there have been five elements that indicate we may be seeing a paradigm shift in the hundred years’ war waged against the Palestinian people.
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The largest pro-Palestinian protest in U.S. history was “a turning point.” Now it’s spreading
“Felt like this was a new wave or a turning point in the struggle for Palestine.”
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Historic events past and present: Berlin Bulletin no. 217
Again the USA marked Veterans’ Day. Now all leading German parties also want such a “Veteranentag”—to honor all those past patriots who wore uniforms, voluntarily or not, and certainly to inspire many more reluctant young men or women to put on army boots and shoulder arms.… Not so many may recall that the earlier “Armistice Day” marked the end of World War One.
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The Warsaw Ghetto and Gaza: Understanding history
Anne Frank was in hiding from fascist terror in Amsterdam from 1942 until August 4, 1944. Her diary is perhaps the most famous diary in the modern world. On the morning of August 4, 1944, Anne was arrested by the occupying power. Because they were in hiding, they were considered criminals and eventually sent to Auschwitz. Anne Frank was Jewish.
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Al-Aqsa Flood: Imperialism, Zionism and Reactionism in the 21st Century
On October 7, 2023, between 2-3,000 Palestinian fighters from various political factions, including Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the DFLP (Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine) and the PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine) among others, broke the 16-year-old siege of Gaza.
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Three waves of historical fascism
Though much marxist theory has explored the recurrent cycles and patterns of historical capitalism, not enough attention has been given to the tendency of moments of politico-economic crisis to become an ideological contestation between fascism and communism in the context of a crisis of liberalism.
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Boarding Schools probe tells U.S. history of genocide
Inhumane treatment and physical abuse were widespread in two major boarding schools from 1892-1909.
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‘Killers of the Flower Moon’: U.S. director Martin Scorsese’s film about the “Reign of Terror” against the Osage Indians
The “Reign of Terror,” which lasted from the end of World War I to 1931, involved the murder of at least 60 wealthy, full-blood Osage Natives, but Grann argues that the actual total of suspicious deaths may number in the hundreds.
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‘The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England’ – book review
Jonathan Healey’s The Blazing World gives a vivid and illuminating account of the revolutionary seventeenth century in Britain, finds Waseem Ahmed.
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Australia’s constitutional referendum, the Israel-Palestine War and British imperialism
Critical reflections on the Australian 2023 Voice to Parliament referendum and the Israel-Palestine War in the context of British settler colonialism and imperialism.