Subjects Archives: Ideology

A consummate technocrat like Mark Carney, committed in his bones to neoliberalism, can only exacerbate the economic pain.

This Purim, as Jews around the world tell the story of Queen Esther, we must also tell the story that Project Esther plans on carrying out. This Christian Nationalist plan intends to squash the Palestine solidarity movement, crack down on free speech and academic freedom, and deport those who speak out against Israeli apartheid.

What is truly more urgent is the fact that a dangerous media class is taking advantage of this media vacuum, at the expense of regular people.

Matthew Quest questions why C.L.R. James is not widely recognized as a founder of African Studies.

The Trump-orchestrated blitzkrieg exposition of a Nationalist Conservative White Christian Agenda raises a series of questions, including: What are the internal contradictions within the US ruling class that have given rise to recent developments? What are the underlying changes within the base and superstructure of the United States? What are the long-term ideological and political consequences on US foreign policy? How should the Global South respond?

As we continue in the struggle for economic justice, it is important to examine how white Christian evangelism shapes our efforts to alleviate poverty. Casting poverty as a form of moral failing encourages people to disengage from the social, cultural, and structural causes of poverty and ignores the role that white Americans play in the global proliferation of poverty conditions worldwide.

Trump administration officials and fascists from around the world are currently gathering at Maryland’s National Harbor for the annual U.S. Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

The hard right is making serious ground globally. But, while increasingly powerful, their ideas are not hegemonic. Now is not the time to despair, but to fight for a better world.

Meet Curtis Yarvin: whose seemingly crazed ideas have found fertile ground among technocrats and oligarchs who have never quite shaken entitled Ayn Rand’s “greed is good” sensibility.

On Feb. 7, a hundred residents of Lincoln Heights, Ohio, drove out a dozen armed neo-Nazis waving swastika flags.

Sadowski’s book based on the This Machine Kills podcast is an incisive and important demolition of illusions around technology and AI, argues Kevin Crane.

By glorifying the figure of William McKinley, president of the United States between March 4, 1897 and September 14, 1901, Donald Trump is trying to find a universally acclaimed precedent for his controversial policies in the political history of the United States.

Far-right Patriots for Europe group meets in Madrid to lament loss of Europe’s supposed greatness.

Reading and popular literacy programmes have played an important role in revolutionary processes, from the Mexican, Chinese, and Russian revolutions in the early twentieth century to today.

The commune as both means and end in Venezuela’s socialist project.

Michael Burawoy was struck while walking inside the crosswalk near Children’s Fairyland.

In 1950, Nevada Democratic Senator Pat McCarran said he wanted to save the United States from communism and “Jewish interests.” 

The world is ruled by religious fanatics with nukes.

“Trans people, refugees, and migrants are not the threats,” the group said. “The billionaires with close ties to our new president who flash the Nazi salute and seek to replace the old elites with a new caste—that is the real threat to America.”

Some thoughts on Mary Shelley and Frankenstein.