Subjects Archives: Movements

Walking along the thoroughfares of the Russian capital these days, it’s easy to feel as though you’ve gone “Back to the Future.” Like Marty McFly in the classic 1985 movie, visitors to Moscow might imagine they’ve traveled back in time to the Soviet past, when socialism beat Hitler and the future of communism beckoned on […]

The U.S. increases pressure on Burkina Faso through military propaganda, as Africans rise to protect the developing project.

The details of the ceasefire negotiations between the U.S., Europe and Ukraine continue to make headlines despite being largely irrelevant for an end of the conflict in Ukraine.

ELEMENTARY textbooks in economics invariably begin with a completely mythical concept: the concept of “perfect competition”, which is different from the concept of “free competition” that the classical economists and Marx had used.

U.S.-led sanctions (more aptly referred to as Unilateral Coercive Measures) caused Venezuela to lose oil revenue equivalent to 213% of its GDP between January 2017 and December 2024, resulting in losses of roughly $77 million per day. Who is the real target of these and other unilateral coercive measures?

The Trump administration is very upset with Wikipedia, the collaboratively edited online encyclopedia.

U.S. Peace Council Statement

The scale and pace of the genocide in Gaza is accelerated by the direct and indirect contributions of American universities.

A cornerstone of Donald Trump’s economic policies is tariffs. Claiming that just about every country in the world has ripped off the United States—even stating that the European Union was established to do this—he sees tariffs as a way for the U.S. to get even.

In an unmistakable style in the form of a provocative lecture in Lisbon in 2024, at the age of 84 Father Martins Júnior asked: “50 years later, what irony! There are 50 fascists, one for each year, in Parliament. How is this possible?”

Is ICE following the lead of rightwing websites to suppress pro-Palestinian speech and activism?

It’s a historic anniversary that the U.S. ruling class and its allies around the world wish we would forget.

On March 30, a lynch mob led by neo-Nazi paramilitaries flew the Israel flag as it demanded Haitian workers be expelled from the Dominican Republic. The episode reveals the disturbing connections between the Dominican right-wing and Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on March 2 that “Israel has decided to stop letting goods and supplies into Gaza,” where the ongoing Israeli genocide, with the loyal backing of the United States, has officially killed more than 51,000 Palestinians since October 2023.

On a stormy August night in 1791, Dutty Boukman (1767–1791) and Cécile Fatiman (1771–1883) conducted a Vodou ceremony at Bois Caïman in northern Saint-Domingue, in the French-owned part of Hispaniola.

On April 17, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sent termination notices to approximately 1,500 of its workers—these mass layoffs represent a nearly 90% cut to the agency.

By creating a spreadsheet, Georgetown Law students sparked national headlines, along with PR headaches and staffing challenges inside the world’s most powerful firms.

Francis’ Cuban saga began in March 2014, when he wrote personal letters to Barack Obama and Raúl Castro. He offered the Vatican as neutral ground for discreet dialogue, which took place sometimes in public and sometimes in absolute confidentiality. He did so without fanfare or press releases, as is usually the case with efforts that pursue truly momentous goals.

Trumpism thrives on the arms race for our eyes and ears. Chris Hayes knows how to get out of it.

Since its initial organizational expression in 1900, the phrase Pan-Africanism has been expressed in many different forms.