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The optimism of a victor
Finding a formula to describe Fidel is no easy task.
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Black workers and immigrants: borrow a page from Marx
Tom Broadwater, a brother, recently wrote a commentary titled “Democrats’ Immigration Dogma is Damaging African American Communities.” It appeared in the Afro American newspaper and in Newsweek.
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Don’t class warfare me
Marketplace’s Kai Ryssdal is no class warrior.
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Climate change in the Anthropocene: an unstoppable drive to Hothouse Earth?
Leading Earth System scientists warn: “The Earth System may be approaching a planetary threshold that could lock in a continuing rapid pathway toward much hotter conditions.… Incremental linear changes to the present socioeconomic system are not enough to stabilize the Earth System.”
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Death of a Marxist
Amin’s thesis—in economics—was written while he was active in the French Communist Party. In the thesis, he thought hard about the problems of his native land and other countries despoiled by the colonial menace. For Amin, as with other dependency theorists, the Third World suffered from theft, plunder as well as deindustrialisation, and then unequal exchange.
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In memoriam: Samir Amin
Samir Amin, the renowned Marxist thinker and economist, passed away on August 13 in Paris. Born in Cairo on September 3, 1931, to an Egyptian father and a French mother, he had his initial education in Egypt before moving to Paris where he obtained his doctorate in Political Economy.
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Stand up with new hope?
If you regretted (or rejoiced) that the left-wing German scene, rarely mentioned by US media, was an unimportant sideshow, be prepared for a surprising new hope, called Aufstehen: Stand Up—or for its opposite, more fear.
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Samir Amin stood for people
Samir Amin transcends all borders capital creates to divide peoples struggling against exploiters, against all divisive politics, against all sectarian ideologies, which serve imperialism. Samir Amin stands for a modern life for peoples while opposes all backward ideas and ideologies serving exploiters.
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Magical bootstraps and the struggles of working Americans
A recession is coming, sooner or later. Once it hits, we can expect articles bemoaning the fact that working people didn’t build-up their savings during this record expansion to help them through the hard times. If only they had pinched pennies here and there, skipped a new TV or smart phone, they could have generated some capital that could have been invested…. Ah the missed opportunities.
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Venezuela’s monetary revolution vis-à-vis economic sanctions
Nino Pagliccia looks at the impacts of the increasing sanctions against Caracas.
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Science fiction and the angel of history
A review of, ‘Sorry to Bother You’.
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Meet the far-right conspiracy idiots who stormed Bookmarks
THE halfwits who went berserk in the central London socialist bookshop Bookmarks on Saturday afternoon are supporters of a oddball far-right group called Make Britain Great Again (MBGA), which is also inconsistently called the People’s Charter Foundation.
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The oldest profession
In the second installment of our subseries Rebel Women, Madeleine Johansson gives her thoughts on the topic of ongoing debate, sex work, and how we on the left should relate to it.
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López Obrador: no time to lose
Andres Manuel López Obrador has announced the first 13 reforms that he will send to Congress when he assumes the Presidency of Mexico on December 1.
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Cuba reiterates unconditional solidarity and support for President Maduro and the Bolivarian Chavista Revolution
The revolutionary Cuban government issued a declaration forcefully denouncing the attempted attack on the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros, which occurred Saturday August 4, during a military parade in Caracas.
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Failed Terrorist Attack against Venezuelan President Maduro
Jorge Martin looks at some of the consequences of the recent terrorist attack which looked to assassinate President Maduro.
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A reserve army of reporters
Capitalists profit from the misery of both those who are unemployed and those who are lucky enough to be working full-time but seeing their work hours increase, their benefits diced, their wages cut. This very much describes the state of modern journalism in 2018.
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Capitalism killed our climate momentum not ‘human nature’
This Sunday, the entire New York Times Magazine will be composed of just one article on a single subject: the failure to confront the global climate crisis in the 1980s, a time when the science was settled and the politics seemed to align.
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U.S. foments regime change in Nicaragua
Around a dozen thugs attack Bookmarks in central London and threaten to return.
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Social Imperialism in the 21st century
A sober analysis of the positions of Owen Jones and Paul Mason on a wide range of issues shows that they are in fact distinctly un-radical, frequently opportunist in nature, and (particularly in Mason’s case) openly reactionary and imperialist.