As of August 14, the federal government has attempted to censor, misrepresent, and otherwise stifle science over 150 times.
Subjects Archives: Movements
Forgotten workers and the U.S. expansion
There is a lot of celebrating going on in mainstream policy circles. The economy is said to be running at full steam with the unemployment rate now below 4 percent.
Nicaragua: ‘Scientific American should try sticking to science’
The last thing we need is to introduce all of the world’s political conflicts into climate change policy, writes Dr. Paul Oquist, Nicaragua’s chief climate negotiator.
UN scientific paper suggests capitalism has to die in order for the planet to be saved
Capitalism and global sustainability are incongruous with one another, according to a recent paper for the UN’s 2019 Global Sustainable Development Report.
Social reproduction: what’s the big idea?
Key to social reproduction theory (SRT) is an understanding of the ‘production of goods and services and the production of life are part of one integrated process’, or in other words: acknowledging that race and gender oppression occur capitalistically.
“These days shall also pass, like a thousand days have before them”
Since the extreme right-wing government of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in 2014, there has been an increasing crackdown on political and student activists, who are often branded as Maoists and anti-nationals.
U.S. prison strike seeks an end to slave labour, corporate profiteering and rights violations
Organized in the face of a crackdown by authorities, the action seeks to strike at the root of the prison-industrial complex.
Nazis on the march
Ten eventful days in Germany set alarm signals clanging louder and louder—worst of all in the East German state of Saxony—but in Berlin as well!
Learning from our elders: Kwame Somburu and Scientific Socialism
Longtime revolutionary activist Kwame Somburu made it a point throughout his life to stress the “scientific” in socialist. During a time of confusion regarding what socialism is, Kwame’s insistence has never been more crucial.
U.S.-backed violent coups are not new or rare
Nicaragua just defeated a U.S.-backed violent coup attempt, and no one cares.
A ‘regime’ is a government at odds with the U.S. empire
In the aftermath of the assassination attempt against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, an article in the Miami Herald (8/5/18) reported that “a clandestine group formed by Venezuelan military members opposed to the regime of Nicolás Maduro claimed responsibility.”
The trade deal which fines governments for acting on climate change
An obscure agreement–the Energy Charter Treaty–allows energy firms to sue countries who take action to stop climate breakdown.
Elections in Brazil–guess who turns up?
Just when you think that they have already done enough damage, that they have seen the light, and maybe they have repented and disappeared to enjoy the wealth they have amassed thanks to an insane capitalist system, they surface again like a cancer that no surgery or radiation has been able to remove.
In the wake of coup attempts in Nicaragua
Ongoing violence meant to destabilize the country and oust President Ortega, has cost the lives of 198 persons and severely damaged the economy.
Comrade Malik speaks out on nationwide program of political repression against prison organizers
Comrade Malik exposes nationwide political repression program.
Modern slavery: the labor history behind the new nationwide prison strike
A labor historian traces the origins of the 2018 prison strike through a legacy of involuntary servitude.
18 theses on Marxism and animal liberation
Marxist critique of society remains incomplete if it does not consider the fact that, to make profits, the ruling classes have not only exploited the oppressed classes within the history of class struggle, but also and always animals (and nature).
Boots Riley’s critique of Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman”
Sorry to Bother You director and musician Boots Riley on Spike Lee’s, BlacKkKlansman: “It’s a made up story in which the false parts of it to try to make a cop the protagonist in the fight against racist oppression. It’s being put out while Black Lives Matter is a discussion—and that is not coincidental. There is […]
Invitation to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the 1968 Miss America protest
50 years ago Women’s Liberation protested the Miss America Pageant and threw.
Is climate the worst casualty?
If we don’t get serious about stopping the U.S. war machine, we could lose the biggest battle of our lives.
