Subjects Archives: Ideology

“The Meaning of Lenin for the 21st Century: Comments to German Comrades” is Paul Le Blanc’s individual contribution to MarxIs’Muss Kongress 2025, to be held in Berlin from 29 May to 1 June 2025.

Inside the Catholic Church’s misguided plan to fix American Catholicism.

JEAN-BAPTISTE Say, a French economist who wrote in the late eighteenth century, had formulated a law to the effect that ‘supply creates its own demand’, which meant that there could never be an inadequate demand for the aggregate of goods produced in any economy.

Amidst the uproar of news pouring in about the genocide in Gaza, the news of the martyrdom of Shaima and her family in the Nuseirat area of the Gaza Strip passes as if nothing happened, as if she were just a number added to a list of numbers.

One hundred years after his birth, 60 years after his assassination, Malcolm X is synonymous globally with revolutions and all forms of militant struggle by exploited and oppressed people.

Social media users asked Grok a series of questions about ‘white genocide’, revealing that the bot was trained to keep mentioning it.

A deeper look at the life of one of the most emblematic Latin American presidents of recent years, who went from armed struggle to a prison that lasted more than a decade, to the country’s presidency.

NAZI Germany was basically defeated by the Soviet Union. The sacrifice made by the Soviet people in defence of their country in that war was utterly unimaginable.

The most productive approach would be to stand up for what most Reform UK voters want and which they share with most people in our country—public ownership, higher taxes on the rich and an end to the privileges of the plutocracy.

Interview with Activist M. on the growing military influences on civil life threatening Indonesia’s dearly earned peace.

“Know this: throughout it all. I have never felt alone. To the eye, I was alone in solitary confinement, on death row, but the eye cannot really see all that is, for behind brick and steel, I felt our love, sometimes like a wave, sometimes like a whisper, but always there, ever present.” – Mumia Abu-Jamal, Prison Radio.

The voice of millions of union members was shamefully missing this election.

Francis’ Cuban saga began in March 2014, when he wrote personal letters to Barack Obama and Raúl Castro. He offered the Vatican as neutral ground for discreet dialogue, which took place sometimes in public and sometimes in absolute confidentiality. He did so without fanfare or press releases, as is usually the case with efforts that pursue truly momentous goals.

Since its initial organizational expression in 1900, the phrase Pan-Africanism has been expressed in many different forms.

‘The Ethics of Belief,’ an 1877 essay by Cambridge mathematician and philosopher William K. Clifford, begins with the story of a fictional shipowner whose seagoing vessel, he himself acknowledges, might not be as sound as should be.

It’s significant that Jagmeet Singh raised Israel’s genocide at both leaders’ debates.

Martin Heidegger was arguably the most important philosopher of the twentieth century.

Antonis Chaliakopoulos offers an intro to Heraclitus, and to Hegel, via each other.

Although the new administration is looking to refocus on the Asia-Pacific, the policy of expanded nuclear sharing makes sense, as it could ameliorate NATO’s growing conventional inferiority against the battle-hardened Russian military. For over 60 years, the United States has been implementing the so-called nuclear sharing policy with various NATO member states. One of the […]

Ten years after one student’s bold action a month earlier inspired protests which led to the removal of Cecil John Rhodes’ statue at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Heike Becker recounts this historical occasion by linking this as well as subsequent and earlier protests to broader conversations about decolonization and concerns about racism, marginalization and inequality.