Following the publication of the special issue on Samir Amin, we post short interviews by the authors on the influence of Amin on their lives and research.
Subjects Archives: Movements
COVID-19 – A socialist response
COVID-19 – A socialist response
Chinese woman fights back against sexual harassment—with a mop
A video clip has emerged showing a female office worker beating her over-eager boss with a cleaning instrument, to the delight of women viewers.
Rosa Luxemburg and postcolonial criticism
Her understanding of oppression was bolstered by personal circumstances: female in an overwhelmingly male public sphere, Jewish in a climate of vicious antisemitism, Polish at a time when Poles suffered national oppression, and an individual who lived with a disability.
Moth-eaten eviction moratorium leaves hundreds of thousands without a roof
During the pandemic, landlords have filed for 284,490 evictions–and that’s just in five states and 27 cities. But how could this be? After all, a moratorium shouldn’t allow for hundreds of thousands of households to fall through the cracks.
Who’s afraid of Hugo Chávez? Race, empire, and Chavismo’s revolutionary subjectivity
Lucas Koerner examines the U.S. Empire’s fixation with Chavismo.
Ecuador’s poisoned loans from the World Bank and the IMF
Ecuador provides an example of a government which officially decided to investigate the process of indebtedness so as to identify illegitimate debt and suspend its repayment.
“The Most Dangerous Man” Turns 90 – Peter Kuznick on Daniel Ellsberg
Historian Peter Kuznick looks at the significance of Daniel Ellsberg’s fight against America’s insane nuclear war strategy, his exposure of the lies of the Viet Nam War, and his continuing fight against the American war machine.
Zambia is the tip of the tail of the Global dog
On 12 August 2021, the people of Zambia will vote to elect a new president, who will be the seventh person elected to the office since Zambia won its independence from the United Kingdom in 1964 if the incumbent loses.
Grassroots Resolutions and Party Democracy: The 2021 NDP Convention
In so far as participating in bourgeois democracy remains a component of socialist strategy in Canada, voters on the Left are largely limited electorally to the New Democratic Party (NDP).
What’s happening in Ecuador?
Ground report from Quito, Ecuador days out from the second round of presidential elections.
Intensive fishing and the birth of capitalism, Part 3
How England’s government-licensed pirates stole the Newfoundland fishery from Europe’s largest feudal empire.
What is exploitation?
The word “exploitation” is special for Marxists because it contains a unique insight about the way wealth is produced in class societies.
BAR Book Forum: Catie Coe’s Book, “The New American Servitude”
Senior care puts care workers into racialized, gendered, and age hierarchies, making it difficult for them to achieve social and economic mobility.
With Nicaragua, scary Covid projections are more newsworthy than hopeful results
One year ago, as both the Trump administration in the U.S. and the Johnson government in the UK responded fitfully to the growing pandemic, the international media were looking for whipping boys: other countries whose response to the virus was even worse.
Dialectical ecology
“If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster.” Thus reads one of the Hopi prophecies which echo throughout Philip Glass’s haunting soundtrack for Koyaanisqatsi (1982).
The real lives of America’s Chinese masseuses
The recent mass shooting in Atlanta has highlighted the vulnerability of Asian women who work in American massage parlors. But they face systematic oppression as well as individual hate.
Rising tensions ahead of second round elections in Ecuador
The lead up to the second round elections in Ecuador have been marked by misinformation campaigns, a sharp increase in COVID-19 cases and fears of manipulation and fraud.
Progressive media promoted a false story of ‘conflict beef’ from Nicaragua
Reports by Reveal (10/21/20) and PBS NewsHour (10/20/21) called for a boycott of “conflict beef” from Nicaragua. The Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal claims to be “fair and comprehensive” and PBS to be “trusted,” but their misleading and inaccurate reports could have drastic consequences for Nicaragua, at a time when the country is already struggling […]
Russia and Myanmar – Balancing on a knife’s ed
“The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere”. It’s a well-known Chinese maxim, especially in Myanmar (Burma), China’s backdoor to the Bay of Bengal, the Indian Ocean, and the Indian Navy’s forward defence line.
