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Trump proclaims Argentina’s fascist President Milei a model for incoming US administration
In his first meeting with a foreign head of state, President-elect Donald Trump hosted fascist Argentine President Javier Milei at a gala dinner on Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
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Rising from the Ashes of the Blockade: The Río Cataniapo Commune (Part III)
How an Indigenous commune in the Venezuelan Amazon has resisted the U.S. blockade.
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What was it that Trump knew that Harris didn’t?
John Rees on why Trump won.
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How Trump won and what Black people should do
Donald Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris must be a wake up call to Black people. The Democratic Party is a dead end and a movement killer. Our survival depends on getting that corrupt wing of the duopoly out of our lives and out of our politics.
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Einstein opposed Zionist colonization in Palestine and predicted the current catastrophe
His views on Israel and Zionism were concealed and distorted for decades.
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The evil warmongering Zionist won (no not that one, the other one)
Turns out campaigning on the promise of continuing a genocide while courting endorsements from war criminals like Dick Cheney is not a great way to get progressives to vote for you.
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How the far-right nearly took over B.C.
There’s a chance now for bold reforms to save lives and strengthen the social safety net for those most in need.
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To think with, across and through Marx
My engagement with Marx in this book is ultimately an act of critical dialogue–of thinking with as well as across and through his texts toward multiple unforeseen destinations.
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Why Nations succeed or fail: a Nobel cause
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A Robinson have been awarded the Nobel (really the Riksbank prize) in economics “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”
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How to do a conjunctural analysis: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2024)
Unlike mainstream media, which all too often distorts the truth and lies by omission–as we see with reporting on Palestine, where the death toll has reached 114,000–conjunctural analyses help us understand the deeper forces at play and provide political and social movements with the materials to intervene to shape the future.
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The Genesis of Cultural-Historical Theory in Vygotsky’s manuscripts of 1926
The present article aims to analyze a restricted set of notes made by Vygotsky, between 1925 and 1926.
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A walk along the Baiyangdian Lake in the Xiong’an new area: The Fortieth Newsletter (2024)
On 1 October 1949, the People’s Republic of China was established. Seventy-five years into its revolutionary process, China has made rapid advances while still facing many challenges.
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Marx’s theory of value: Collapse, AI and Petro
A site called Marxism and Collapse (M&C) has conducted a ‘dialogue’ with an AI model called Genesis Zero (GZ) that includes “an expansion and refutation” of Marx’s theory of value. The human voice (M&C) asks questions and leads the AI model (GZ) into discussing the inadequacies of Marx’s value theory and to reach a new, […]
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In first speech since release, Assange says imprisonment set ‘dangerous precedent’
“I am not free today because the system worked,” said Assange. “I am free today because after years of incarceration I pleaded guilty to journalism.”
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The political beginnings of AMLO, the Mexican politician who did not give up
We review some of the key moments in the political life of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), from his beginnings until the 2006 presidential election. AMLO concluded his presidential term on September 30.
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Surrealism as a revolutionary movement
Surrealism has been an international movement since its inception. However, here michael löwy focuses mainly on the Paris surrealist group, initially around André Breton, but which continued its activity after the death of the author of the Surrealist Manifestos.
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Remembering Fredric Jameson, 1934-2024
In Fredric Jameson, who died on Sunday at the age of 90, we have lost probably the most creative Marxist thinker of our time.
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The Uhuru Three, African Stream, and the Black Scare/Red Scare
On September 12, 2024, a ruling was handed down in the case of the “Uhuru Three.”
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Venezuela and the Ethics of Liberation: A conversation with Ximena González Broquen
The head of a prestigious research center talks about knowledge production in the Bolivarian Revolution.
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U.S. attacks President Petro for denouncing genocide in Gaza
The United States (U.S.) once again confirmed itself as the main defender of Israel’s genocidal actions, in the face of any criticism of the crimes it is committing against the Palestinian people.