Subjects Archives: Marxism

The racist accusation of misogyny by Julia Hartley-Brewer against Mustafa Barghouti embodies the refusal to see Palestinian men as victims, writes Hebh Jamal.

The main spokesperson of El Maizal Commune is trying to put institutional power at the service of the commune.

This is an extract from the introduction to Alex Snowdon’s forthcoming book on Lenin, to be published by Counterfire, where he outlines the key stages of Lenin’s life as a revolutionary.

In exploring the notion of critical media literacy, the Marxist concepts of base and superstructure and Antonio Gramsci’s theory of cultural hegemony provide an essential framework for understanding the complex dynamics of media, power, and ideology.

The theoretical position informing “Imperialism” extended Marxism in at least five major ways.

A documentary filmmaker long associated with the Bolivarian Revolution talks about the history of its audiovisual production and the challenges ahead.

A commemoration of the life of comrade Sekou Odinga, a lifelong New African revolutionary, former political prisoner, and unstoppable force in the Black liberation movement.

As part of our series commemorating 100 years since Lenin’s death, we repost Dragan Plavšić’s take on a classic text.

An intellectual and scholar, Paul published many books, journal articles, notes, reviews, and book chapters in his field. He felt his most important books are Marx and Nature: A Red And Green Perspective (1999) and Marxism and Ecological Economics (2006). He was passionate about his work, Socialism, the planet, and justice.

Since his death on December 30, tributes have been pouring in for John Pilger, an Australian journalist who gave voice to the voiceless and had a talent for putting human tragedies into a political context.

Most Martin Luther King birthday celebrations are tawdry displays of political cynicism and cooptation. The people must recapture the day from war criminals and their Black misleadership puppets.

Since 2020, there has been a gradual realization about the limitations of various strategies, ideologies, and political approaches, particularly in the context of using “abolition” as a catch-all umbrella.

I have tried not only to provide some facts to guide our discussion but also to thread them into the theory of socialism that I believe is most attractive.

Currently, about 3.7 million students are enrolled in roughly 7,800 privately-operated charter schools across the country. The U.S. public education system, on the other hand, has been around for more than 150 years and educates about 45 million students in nearly 100,000 schools.

In memory of Paul Burkett, Marxist scholar and jazz musician, 1956-2024.

On the 130th anniversary of the founder of People’s China’s birth, BEN CHACKO asks whether media hype about Xi as a new Mao rings true – or whether the country’s trajectory has really changed that much.

With global capitalism’s worsening poverty and environmental crises, sustainable human development comes to the fore as the primary question that must be engaged by all twenty-first century socialists in core and periphery alike. It is in this human developmental connection, I will argue, that Marx’s vision of communism or socialism (two terms that he used interchangeably) can be most helpful.

Dimitris Konstantakopoulos: ‘The last time I saw Aleksandr was last June, in the nice café where he often used to make his appointments, on the former Gorky Avenue (which the recent “Restoration” renamed Tverskaya, as if to assure us that Money is the enemy of Culture), near Pushkin Square and a little further away from the Mayakovski metro station.’

This valuable collection of pieces explores the role of women in twentieth-century revolutionary and national-liberation movements throughout the world, finds Ellen Graubart.

Prison Notebooks sets the tone with “Animality and Industrialism,” Gramsci’s original work-in-progress header for the section he’d eventually label “Americanism and Fordism.”