Subjects Archives: Ideology

In a momentous vote, the National Education Association voted to cut all ties with the Anti-Defamation League. The reason? “Despite its reputation as a civil rights organization, the ADL is not the social justice educational partner it claims to be.”

It is very important to distinguish between the Left criticism and the neoliberal criticism of the dirigiste strategy.

The victory of Jeannette Jara in the ruling coalition’s primary is a major triumph for the people and the left.

Alex Snowdon explains the Marxist view of how ideas develop and how socialists seek to change the world.

The Department of Justice has quietly declared the Epstein case closed—no client list, no criminal conspiracy, and no further disclosures.

What is MAGA imperialism? Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster says that, despite its feints toward anti-imperialist isolationism, President Donald Trump’s foreign policy has coalesced into a “hyper-nationalist” form of populism that rejects the U.S.’s post-WWII adherence to liberal internationalism and promotes dominance over other countries via military power rather than through economic globalization.

The Communist Party and socialist construction.

Diana Darke’s brilliant history of medieval architecture reveals the extent of Islamic influence on the foundational phase of Western European art and buildings, finds Dominic Alexander.

When Bertolt Brecht wrote: “Hungry man; reach for the book” he was articulating the Left attitude to education, as something that broadens perceptions and hence is essentially emancipatory. The fascist attitude to education is diametrically opposite to this.

The following records come from the President’s Office at Harvard University involving the terms of the reappointment of Paul Sweezy at the rank of Faculty Instructor in the Harvard economics department.

The southern state spends nearly 60% of its revenue budget on education, health, pensions, food subsidies and rural development.

Catholic hospitals have denied lifesaving care to pregnant patients since long before Dobbs—and their presence is expanding.

Devin Thomas O’Shea pores over Andrew Hartman’s “Karl Marx in America.”

As profit-driven exploitation imperils Indonesia’s Leuser Ecosystem, some unique conservation strategies are working to save it.

Nature is an upper-case term here, defined as “a historically conditioned, polyvalent concept that, because it included humans, is necessarily an intrinsic concern to people living in both urban and rural environments.”

Popular resistance against the Trump administration in Los Angeles and other cities is a very positive development and one that Black people must embrace.

The 1998 reform movement (reformasi) that successfully overthrew former president Suharto did not automatically change the political-economic power structure in Indonesia. The political system that was promised to be more democratic was still controlled by the old elite and the owners of capital.

The zionist terrorist entity does not act alone. Over the 600 days of the genocide of the Palestinians, the United States has shipped 800 planeloads, carrying more than 90,000 tons of missiles, bombs, and military equipment, to the zionist entity.

Facing an ongoing corruption scandal and rising measles cases, clearly the Alberta government is desperate for a distraction.

There are a million ways to slice and dice both a universal Medicare plan and also the transition, which will pose real problems. However, it is important any plan be comprehensive. That doesn’t mean it has to cover the plastic surgery needed to give people the Mar-a-Lago look, but it does need to cover areas like dental, vision, and hearing, which are excluded from traditional Medicare.