Subjects Archives: Marxism

The second National Popular Consultation saw Venezuelans choose community projects to be funded by the state.

In the 1960s, a new ideology held that cities were best developed organically and free from central planning. In his latest book, Owen Hatherley explores how these ideas shaped New York—and what they can teach a new generation of socialists.

For decades, most Black political commentary has expressed solidarity with the Palestinian people, but recently, a new phenomenon has appeared, particularly on social media platforms, which accuses all Palestinians of being anti-Black racists, and asserts that aligning with them is either of no use to Black people or even that it is detrimental to our own cause.

The six justices who voted to criminalize the homeless have a combined net worth of $54 million. 

The world’s largest cannabis producer aims to encourage legal cultivation of the plant and export it for industrial or medical purposes

Our country must move beyond symbolic representations of women like Kali, Durga, Lakshmi, and Saraswati, and instead offer genuine respect and equality.

The call for the nationwide vigil to “reclaim the night” was given by the left groups following the rape and murder of a medical staff on duty in Kolkata last week.

Fascism is an insufficient term, as it denies the intimacy between liberal and far right forces. In this week’s newsletter, we present ten theses to understand this ‘intimate embrace’ and the rise of this far right of a special type.

The hero of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games isn’t Tom Cruise, Armand Duplantis or Novak Djokovic. The hero is Cuban and his name is Mijaín Lopez.

Global capital through the international finance system has obtained near hegemony and capitalism is projected as the best and most superior system in history.

Members of the New Columbia Movement routinely rally alongside neo-Nazi groups which openly flaunt Nazi imagery.

Disqualified after becoming first Indian women wrestler to enter the finals in Olympics, Phogat along with her colleagues have been waging a protracted battle against the sexual harassment in country’s wrestling federation

The racist pogroms on the streets of Britain are the result of British support for genocide in Palestine and the construction of a “migrant threat”.

“Let them show the records!” has become the buzzword to refer to Venezuela and its recent electoral process.

Vladimir Lenin made many valuable contributions to Marxist political economy.

Britain’s political establishment has spent decades demonising refugees and Muslims. Defeating the far right doesn’t stop with ending the violent riots on the streets—the politics that inspired them must be beaten too.

In his lifetime, Karl Marx witnessed the establishment of capitalism as an all-encompassing, global system, and with it the international working class—a force capable of radical social transformation.

How Palestine turned a classical musician and recovering child prodigy into a revolutionary.

A milestone in Du Bois’ political evolution, written as he was leaving the N.A.A.C.P. and starting his career at Atlanta University Du Bois’ increasingly embraced Marx’s analytical criteria, though he remained outside the Communist movement for decades more.

A View from the Inside.