Subjects Archives: Marxism

This is Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report Executive Editor. I’m joined by Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report contributing editor. We’ll be discussing the renewal of the U.S. war against Iran, but also the larger connections with U.S. actions worldwide, and analyze the U.S.-EU-NATO axis of domination and its continued commitment to war and to militarism.

The struggles over what kind of place we inhabit and what kind of people we want to be is a form of general political and social struggle that is central to what socialist consciousness must embrace. It is oppositional to the alienated and exclusionary nationalism that frequently attaches to the toxic form of developmentalism that too often corrupts anticapitalist politics.

Apolinario Mabini is the most neglected or ignored figure in the pantheon of heroes of the revolution against Spain and the United States.

Pre-capitalist societies even in normal times have been characterized by a degree of deference by the common people towards the intelligentsia; this was strengthened by the role played by the intelligentsia during the anti-colonial struggle and the period of post-independence dirigisme in countries like India.

A new report finds that governments worldwide are reshaping labour law to favour corporate power.

At the Marxism 2026 conference in Toronto last month, Ian Angus spoke at a release event for his new book, Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System, out now from Monthly Review Press.

Marx and Engels demonstrated that ideas arise from material social relations rather than existing independently of them. Gramsci showed how those ideas, once institutionalised within culture, help reproduce the very material relations from which they emerged.

Factoring the true cost of U.S. capitalism and imperialism requires mapping what historian David Michael Smith terms the “endless holocausts” of U.S. empire.

The ground had hardly stopped shaking before Washington began advancing its agenda.

Every right workers and oppressed people hold was won through struggle. No worker can depend on the courts to defend rights that only struggle can protect.

The government made a great decision to nominate the Governor of Bihar Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (Retd.) to represent the country at the funeral of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Egypt reached the World Cup Round of 16 for the first time, with coach Hossam Hassan dedicating the historic victory to Palestine.

CounterSpin interview with Seth Stern on criminalizing dissent.

How can movements confront a digital capitalism that has become technologically advanced to an unprecedented degree?

When the last U.S. soldier left Taiwan in 1979, Washington’s grip did not loosen–it simply changed shape, shifting from barracks and warships to classrooms, newsrooms, and the minds of a generation.

When people look at Venezuela from the outside, they often reduce Chavismo to its leadership. Leadership is important, of course, but it is only one part of a much broader reality. Over time, the Bolivarian Process has built institutional strength, political organization, territorial presence, and forms of popular participation that go far beyond electoral politics.

ANDREW MURRAY looks back at a damaging career marked by dishonesty, incompetence and revolting complicity in war crimes.

Dr. Foster discusses the strong philosophical connections between the ancient Greek philosopher and Marx’s thinking which go back to Marx’s dissertation.

A Chile’s Court has sentenced three former DINA officers to 15 years in prison for the 1976 assassination of U.S. citizen Ronnie Moffitt during a transnational operation targeting diplomat Orlando Letelier in the heart of Washington DC.

Culture, which has for so long—for too long—had only the weapons of the intelligence to defend it against the material weapons of the aggressors, that culture is itself not only an emanation of the spirit but also and above all a material thing.