Subjects Archives: Philosophy

… in the form of a life-size cardboard cut-out.

A disingenuous trend is reemerging, bastardizing concepts of “accessibility” to attack and suppress radical efforts at political education. The focus on consistent ongoing political education is shot down as disconnected from the needs of the people.

Commune spokespeople urged the Maduro government to boost grassroots efforts against “the metabolism of capital.”

The Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists or OUN is the most successful post-war fascist group.

Zionism destroys everything in its path. It has corrupted every major American Jewish organization. And Netanyahu’s return allows American Jews to acknowledge this.

Events of the last few days indicate AAP and BJP worship Ambedkar purely for electoral gains and not from commitment to his ideas.

Joe Burns, director of collective bargaining with the CWA-AFA union, discusses his new book, “Class Struggle Unionism, and the importance of a militant labor movement.”

The Italian general election was a historic win for the far right.

The only Russian leader in a thousand years who was a genuine gardener and who allowed himself to be recorded with a shovel in his hand was Joseph Stalin (lead image, mid-1930s). Compared to Stalin, the honouring of the new British king Charles III as a gardener pales into imitativeness and pretension.

The Cuban Revolution came about in a country subordinated to the U.S. from all points of view. Although we had the façade of a republic, we were a perfect colony, exemplary in economic, commercial, diplomatic, and political terms, and almost in cultural terms.

Throughout most of recorded history, Asia has been the wealthiest region in the world.

Recently a deluge of headlines about the Catholic Church in Nicaragua has appeared in international media–but not one of the articles has accurately explained what is happening. Below I’ll break down Nicaragua’s relationship with the Catholic Church and recent events, all links are to excellent articles for those who want to delve deeper.

Leni Riefenstahl said her epic films glorifying the Nazis depended on a “submissive void” in the German public. This is how propaganda is done.

In remembrance of Barbara Ehrenreich (1941–2022), we are reposting this article, which first appeared in WIN magazine on June 3, 1976, and then published in Monthly Review in 2005 (Volume 57, Issue 03).

When a life is lauded by both Henry Kissinger and Boris Johnson, the deceased must have done something very wrong.

Why were people so ready to believe that Heard was lying–about everything?

People are crying, embracing, yelling, as the streets fill with joy. Horns honk and people dance in the middle of avenues. They can’t believe that the news traveling by word of mouth, tweet to tweet, news show to news show, is really true. As the minutes and hours pass, they confirm that it is true: This June 19th they—the Nobodies—have won.

Anyone engaging seriously with Teltumbde’s work will know his beliefs are antithetical to the crimes he is being accused of.

There were a few things the Buffalo and Uvalde mass shooters who killed a combined 31 people had in common: Both used AR-15-style rifles bought legally. Both were just 18 years old. But perhaps most overlooked in the corporate press as a shared characteristic worthy of commentary: They were both male.

“Thanks for the meeting, for the time, and for building bridges,” said the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez in a meeting in the afternoon of July 12 with a group of students from New York University’s The New School, who are attending a summer course sponsored by Casa de las Américas.