Subjects Archives: Media

Matthew Quest questions why C.L.R. James is not widely recognized as a founder of African Studies.

The leading big tech companies are working hard to sell Artificial Intelligence (AI) as the gateway to a future of plenty for all.

Baffled by the voters who shunned Bidenomics and complained about the economy, Democratic Party pundits are convinced that voters are simply ignorant of the facts.

Under the auspices of the Bolivarian Revolution’s call for people’s power, a self-organized Indigenous commune looks for state support to enhance its traditional production methods.

In the basement of Helping Hands Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, there is a meeting room. Its left and right sides are lined with stacks of large books, some with torn covers. These are rare books about Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and others. They sit like prisoners, yearning for readers to set them free. The place is known as Harry Magdoff Memorial Library.

“When billionaires talk about ‘personal liberties,’” media critic Parker Molloy noted, “they’re usually thinking about their personal liberty to avoid taxation and regulation.”

Will the U.S.’s geopolitical chess moves, from Greenland to Ukraine to Russia, be enough to eclipse China’s rapid advancement in critical technologies?

As we continue in the struggle for economic justice, it is important to examine how white Christian evangelism shapes our efforts to alleviate poverty. Casting poverty as a form of moral failing encourages people to disengage from the social, cultural, and structural causes of poverty and ignores the role that white Americans play in the global proliferation of poverty conditions worldwide.

Despite shifting political climate, media reformers press forward with Fox News TV license challenge.

In today’s Canada, offending Zionist influencers is enough to land you behind bars.

An Indigenous commune in the Venezuelan Amazon that builds on Huo̧ttö̧ja̧ and other traditions.

On dozens of occasions I’ve responded to Kurtz’ racist, violent anti-Palestinian posts on X. Six weeks ago I wrote an article..

The fall of the Berlin Wall enabled neo-fascist activity to spill over into East Germany, laying the groundwork for the strengthening of right-wing forces today.

The ‘Big Five’ publishing houses wield enormous global power, controlling 80% of the English-language trade publishing market.

The arrest of a well-known Palestinian bookstore’s co-owner was part of a pattern of raids and repression, booksellers say.

Literacy gives us the power to build a collective life–it allows us to see our history with clarity, be critical of our present, and demand the impossible of the future.

The hard right is making serious ground globally. But, while increasingly powerful, their ideas are not hegemonic. Now is not the time to despair, but to fight for a better world.

Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier finally returns home today. In the last moments of his presidency, Joe Biden commuted his two consecutive life sentences to home confinement.

The following text is based on a talk given by Gary Wilson at the “Deep Seek and the Challenge to U.S. Technological Hegemony” webinar on Feb. 16, hosted by the Friends of Socialist China and the International Manifesto Group.

The first month of the Trump administration has seen a full-scale cave-in by the corporate media, in which major newspapers and television and cable networks have bowed to the demands of the fascist president, muzzling or firing journalists viewed as his critics and backing away from any serious defense of freedom of the press.