Subjects Archives: Marxism

An interview with Rama Salla Dieng

I have spent my life interpreting capitalism in order to build an alternative.

“We understood that producing green coffee was not enough. The only solution was to advance toward control over the entire production process.”

Social Metabolism: Beyond the “Thing-ness” of the World.

The death of Jürgen Habermas closes the life of one of the most influential intellectual figures of postwar Europe.

This interview with Henri Lefebvre was conducted for the French Communist Party (PCF) journal La Nouvelle Critique in 1979. As the interview shows, Lefebvre’s renewed engagement with the PCF was neither nostalgic nor opportunistic but grounded in his conviction that Marxism required continual theoretical renegotiation if it was to remain capable of grasping contemporary reality.

Three recent reports provide the gory details about massive and growing wealth inequality in Canada.

Modern environmental crises are not accidental byproducts of economic activity but expressions of a structural contradiction embedded within capitalism’s organization.

Organizers are working to have demonstrations take place throughout England, and it’s something that tenants and activists in the United States and other countries can learn from.

The U.S. is careening towards economic and military disaster, a moment when the Black radical tradition is missing but badly needed.

In recent years, the Latin American far right has launched a crusade against the rights of women and sex-gender dissidents, hoping to crush some of the region’s most active opposition to neoliberalism.

A fake scandal involving Rama Duwaji’s Instagram likes reveals how desperate pro-Israel pundits are grasping at straws as support for the country plummets in the U.S.

Kollontai’s writings on women’s oppression and their struggle for liberation are as clarifying and brilliantly relevant today as they have always been, finds Lindsey German.

Around the world, the political right is normalising misogyny and the sexual objectification of women.

German military and police forces harbor extensive neo-Nazi networks that threaten public safety.

“I don’t like Trump but Iran is bad,” is the siren song of feckless liberals. This moment calls for condemnation of the U.S. and unreserved support for the Iranian people and for their state.

Marxist theorist and militant Chris Gilbert has been involved in the Bolivarian Revolution for two decades. In this interview, conducted on February 22, 2026, he offers an analytical reading that situates the recent escalation within the broader history of confrontation between Venezuela and U.S. hegemony, and examines its implications for the country and the region.

In a recent essay, we advanced a proposal for sub-federal governments to sell municipal bonds to their own public banks. We took the city as our primary point of departure, but the same lessons are applicable to U.S. counties and states. Establishing a public bank that regularly purchases municipal debt, we argued, would not only significantly […]

Western threats against Iran reveal an imperial psychology unable to accept a multipolar world.

“We asked ourselves: if coffee shapes our culture as growers, if it organizes our daily life, and if we already cooperate in so many ways, why shouldn’t we also come together economically?”