Subjects Archives: Marxism

“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?”

What chance do local governments have in fighting authoritarian austerity, especially when they are left to rely on feckless legislators at the state and federal levels who refuse to push back? Right now, we see austerity budgets appearing across every institution and major employer in the U.S. If the federal government continues to sabotage municipalities, […]

Immigration Agents Mimic Past U.S. Dealers of Death.

Parliament was not allowed to discuss the Epstein files. There is no such prohibition on the people of India.

Imperial violence was not invented by Trump. It has been an integral part of this nation’s relationships with the rest of the world from its beginning. However, Trump is more direct in saying out loud what former presidents hesitated to acknowledge, instead either keeping it hidden from public view, justifying it as self-defense, or employing subtler means of intimidation.

Lenin stated that he became a Marxist in the rural town of Samara, south of Kazan.

Brazil’s left, headed by the ruling Workers’ Party (PT), has long been a leading voice in Latin America against U.S. interventionism. When the United States launched its military action to kidnap Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2025, the Brazilian government and the PT joined a global chorus of shock and denunciation of this […]

The MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY unpicks the two principal ways in which capitalists maximise the difference between what they put into the workplace and workforce – and the much greater profits they get out.

As a key pro-Israel powerbroker, Peter Mandelson and his protégé toppled Jeremy Corbyn, installed Keir Starmer, and reshaped Labour. Now his arrest threatens to shake British politics to its core.

A MARXIST RESPONSE TO VIVEK CHIBBER’S MATERIALIST SOCIALISM.

Once relegated to the U.S.-Mexico border, surveillance technology is popping up in neighborhoods all over the country.

After the Trump administration illegally kidnapped the legitimate president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, on January 3, 2026, we saw two distinct and divergent responses from Venezuelans. On the one hand, the Venezuelan diaspora, especially in the United States, celebrated President Maduro’s kidnapping and bombing of their birth country. They congregated […]

Do sciences, such as ecology and epidemiology, demand an integral philosophy?

Cuban women embody resistance and resilience as they navigate daily challenges posed by the six-decade U.S. economic blockade, maintaining their communities and families with dignity and creativity.

The death of James Petras—the American sociologist whose writings influenced generations of critical thinkers across continents—passed through the world almost like a whisper. A scholar who spent his life exposing the violence of power, the inequalities of global capitalism, and the illusions of empire left this world with little noise beyond small circles of readers […]

Interview with John Bellamy Foster on his new book, “Breaking the bonds of fate, Epicurus and Marx Epicurus”.

Karl and Eleanor Marx–father and daughter–share the credit for a pamphlet which was widely read as an introduction or alternative to his longer Capital and is still relevant today, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School.

Pedro Monzon Barata argues that in the wake of U.S. aggression against Venezuela, education is the decisive battlefield, where sovereignty, resistance, and ideological clarity are forged.

What is Jesse Jackson’s legacy? Ajamu Baraka, Black Agenda Report editor and columnist, provides his reflections.

In his contribution to ROAPE’s special issue on Frantz Fanon, Peter Hudis challenges the widespread claim that Fanon had little to say about the Marxian critique of political economy. He does so by examining Fanon’s attentiveness to the sociogenic basis of racial domination in Black Skins, White Masks and his discussion of the transition from national liberation to socialism in The Wretched of the Earth and his final psychiatric writings. By engaging with Fanon’s views on nationalisation, decentralised economic and political structures, and the role of the party, the article argues that what Fanon called the “humanisation of work” was central to a thoroughly democratic and non-hierarchical conception of socialism.