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China-Africa friendship continues to flourish on vaccine, trade, renewable energy
China-Africa friendship is expected to continue to flourish as cooperation is further deepened in various areas after the ongoing 8th Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) held in Dakar, Senegal.
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Ten Marxist classics for Xmas
Lindsey German’s Marxist holiday reading list
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China plays a crucial role supporting progress and sovereignty in Latin America
In the last two decades, economic links between Latin America and the People’s Republic of China have been expanding at a dizzying rate.
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Teachers across Iran take strike action demanding jailed trade unionist is freed
Thousands of protesting teachers assembled in front of the Majlis, or Iranian parliament building, in central Tehran today demanding justice and the release from prison of a leading teacher trade unionist.
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Marxism and STS: From Marx and Engels to COVID-19 and COP26
At the recent conference of the Society for the Social Study of Science, I came to the conclusion that the history of Marxism in relation to science and technology studies is an increasingly forgotten story.
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Opaque algorithms are creating an invisible cage for platform workers
We live in a world run by algorithms. Nowhere is this more apparent than with platform companies, such as Facebook, Uber, Google, Amazon, and Twitter.
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From grassroots to lawmaker: a glimpse of China’s ‘whole-process democracy’
The notion of Chinese democracy is not the same as that in the West. The political system in China is more about consensus building within a greater voice rather than the protracted bargaining to arrive at decisions common in the West.
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Systems thinking in COVID-19 recovery is urgently needed to deliver sustainable development for women and girls
Policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the gendered aspect of pandemics; however, addressing the gendered implications of the COVID-19 pandemic comprehensively and effectively requires a planetary health perspective that embraces systems thinking to inequalities.
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GM ‘designer babies’: breakthrough or nightmare?
Only a global ban on human genetic engineering can prevent a new era of eugenics from emerging, writes Dave King.
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‘Why are you acting the Marxist?’ Frédéric Lordon on Thomas Piketty’s ‘Capital and Ideology’
On 31 January, at the Bourse du travail in Paris, Frédéric Lordon debated with Thomas Piketty on his book ‘Capital and Ideology’, at the invitation of Les Amis de L’Humanité. The following text is Frédéric Lordon’s opening speech, with minimal revisions.
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OTF – The “independent” internet freedom organization that makes all your favorite privacy apps–is staffed full of spies
While the OTF presents itself as independent internet freedom activists, their funding, staff, history and choice of targets all point to the conclusion that they are a digital weapon being used against Washington’s enemies.
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Cornel West on Frantz Fanon, one of the great revolutionary intellectuals of the 20th century
“Decolonization implies the urgent need to thoroughly challenge the colonial situation.”
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#NoMore censorship of Africa’s roving digital Army of Peace
The removal of Twitter accounts advocating for peace in the Horn of Africa shows the connection between the state and big tech companies. Freedom of speech is an illusion when communications are controlled by corporations which follow governmental dictates.
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‘Any bystander is a coward or a traitor’ – Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary challenge
From the end of May until a few days before Remembrance Day (November 11) flags at Canadian public buildings were flown at half-mast. This unusual occurrence was in recognition of the discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves containing the remains of Indigenous children on the sites of former Indian Residential Schools.
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Sandinistas won a landslide victory not through fraud but because they uplifted Nicaragua’s poor
Do not believe them when they tell you the left is divided. There is no division. The (anti-imperialist) Left is standing with the Sandinista victory in Nicaragua. The rest are either confused or advocating an imperialist political project.
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China is not colonizing Africa
International media cannot be trusted to give accurate information. Skepticism is especially warranted when China is the topic and allegations of colonizing Africa make headlines.
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‘They want us dead’: another year of devastating overdoses in Baltimore
Little legislative movement in Maryland over the past two years has left people who use drugs more vulnerable and even less safe.
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Obituary for Russiagate
The fraudulent fable has died, but its consequences live on.
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We have to stand on our ground, the best ground from which to reach the stars: The Forty-Eighth Newsletter (2021)
During the pandemic, socialist projects–such as those of LDF government in Kerala, the Cuban educational programmes, and the MST literacy campaign–are flourishing, while other governments cut their educational funding. ‘It’s always time to learn’, says the MST literacy programme, but this adage is not in use everywhere.
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Media don’t factcheck right-wing migration myths
Increases and declines in unauthorized immigration mostly correlate with changes in job opportunities and other economic conditions in the United States and in nearby countries.