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Ianir Milevski (ed) “Marxist Archeology Today: Historical Materialist Perspectives in Archeology from America, Europe and the Near East in the 21st Century”
Archeology has always been a political science. Since its inception the field has attempted to trace our lineage as a species along the lines of identity, territory and culture. Though often portrayed as a discipline slightly closer to the hard sciences than historiography, it is much closer to its distant cousin in the social sciences than towards anything resembling an empirical practice.
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Ian Angus’s “The War Against the Commons”: A vital new history of the bloody rise of capitalism
Primitive accumulation is the historical process through which capitalists stole their wealth or took it by force. Canadian ecosocialist Ian Angus has contributed an excellent new book on this history, covering the violent transition from feudalism to capitalism in depth while demonstrating its continuing relevance to the modern world..
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Thomas Sankara remains a global icon
His vision of a socialist, pan-Africanist model of development was not buried with him.
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On fascism and other maladies: A conversation with Luis Britto García
One of Venezuela’s most respected intellectuals talks about fascism and corruption scandals in the lead-up to the presidential elections.
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The CIA overthrow of Kwame Nkrumah and the struggle against neo-colonialism in West Africa today
One day after his inauguration, Bassirou Diomaye Faye—Senegal’s new self-proclaimed “left Pan-Africanist” president—announced that the new government will conduct an audit of the country’s oil, gas and mining sectors.
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Practicing science as class struggle
Tenant Unionism, Public Health, and Radical Science in Connecticut.
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An interconnected whole–an interview with Mark Duffield
ROAPE interviews Mark Duffield about his life and work.
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The West believes antisemitism is a more egregious problem than genocide
The loss of Western authority as a result of Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza has merely sped up changes already underway for a generation.
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The crisis of liberalism
Modern liberalism was developed in response to the Bolshevik Revolution during the capitalist crisis of the inter-war period, as a way of resolving that crisis, and other similar crises that could arise in future, without transcending capitalism.
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Communist Party of Israel-Hadash: Netanyahu’s fascist government on verge of causing humanitarian disaster in Rafah
“Israel’s fascist government is on the verge of bringing about a humanitarian disaster in Rafah,” Hadash and Communist Party of Israel (CPI) says in a common statement on Monday, May 6.
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“To be free is to free others”: Formerly incarcerated women urge decarceration
The fight to free women and end mass incarceration is long and ongoing, but these activists aren’t giving up.
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10 years of injustice: Anti-fascist leader recounts Odessa massacre
May 2 marks the 10th anniversary of one of the biggest crimes of 21st century fascism—the massacre of nearly 50 activists at the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine.
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Ecological crisis and the role of the working class
The agents of such a holistic revolution to save Mother Earth are not simply the working class in a traditional economic sense, but also the ‘ecological proletariat’, a dedicated army of an ecologically conscious working class, writes Rana Mitra.
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Jewish anti-Zionists fight slander against their pro-Palestinian advocacy
Those who claim pro-Palestinian Jews are not really Jewish are “by my definition, completely unhinged.”
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Beyond the binary of race and class: A Marxist Humanist perspective
The emergence of a new generation of antiracist activists and theorists seeking to advance an anticapitalist agenda creates a new vantage point of reexamining how racism relates to the logic of capital. This essay explores sources in the work of Marx, twentieth century Marxists, and Frantz Fanon that can provide direction for overcoming the binary of class and race.
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From World War II to Gaza: U.S. Labour opposition to war and fascism
To understand the growing support within union ranks for an end to unconditional U.S. military and financial support for Israel in its conduct of a brutal war, it is important to look back at the legacy to which the UAW statements refer.
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Gramsci and his friend “S”
Piero and Nino exchanged ideas, criticized one another, encouraged each other; Nino often used Piero, seven-years his junior, as an intellectual sounding board, as a trusted interlocutor, asking for advice, for suggestions, whether his friend could chase up a source, a book or journal, a magazine or newspaper article, could he confirm this fact and that, find out some precise detail about Croce’s historical studies, if Machiavelli ever wrote anything about economics, or David Ricardo about philosophy.
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On the Marxist critique of Heidegger
How Marxists should approach the critique of Martin Heidegger.
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The integral crisis in the U.S. and the purity fetish
The United States tells the world and its citizens that it is the greatest country on the planet, where freedom and democracy reign, and where there is an American dream that gives everyone the opportunity to live flourishing “middle class” lives with white-fenced houses and two cars. For the American working masses, however, as the great critical comedian George Carlin noted, “it’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”
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Prison notorious for rape is slated for closure but not releasing survivors
The Bureau of Prisons initially planned to empty FCI Dublin by April 19. Those inside fear being sent far from family.