Subjects Archives: Philosophy

How Helen Gym’s fight to save a hospital turned her into a frontrunner to be Philadelphia’s next mayor.

The Nakba, “catastrophe” in Arabic, refers to Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine, which includes the expulsion and subsequent displacement of Palestinians, the destruction of Palestinian towns and villages, and other attempts to eradicate the Palestinian people from their ancestral homeland in the territory that became the State of Israel.

On 8 and 9 May, Berlin traditionally hosts numerous commemorative events to mark the end of the Second World War in Europe.

Marxist economist Michael A Lebowitz passed away at home on April 19.

Karl Marx was born on May 5, 1818 in Trier, where he received a classical education. He studied jurisprudence at Bonn and later in Berlin, where, however, his preoccupation with philosophy soon turned him away from law.

This article on Karl Marx, which now appears in a separate printing, was written in 1913 (as far as I can remember) for the Granat Encyclopaedia. A fairly detailed bibliography of literature on Marx, mostly foreign, was appended to the article.

Times are hard, and they’re getting harder, but we can turn this thing around. Please be kind with yourself in the meantime.

In the final essay to mark the fiftieth anniversary of national revolutionary leader Amílcar Cabral’s murder in 1973, first published in the ROAPE journal thirty years ago, Basil Davidson provides a personal portrait. Davidson’s piece contains fascinating detail and insight on Cabral’s principles of organising, as well as how Cabral and his comrades started their successful anti-colonial struggle in the early 1950s, all of which retains its relevance in the context of ongoing struggle and revolt across the continent today.

Belafonte’s activism changed America, his singing shaped a musical consciousness for generations of Americans, and his acting paved the way for Black performers.

Apart from his humanitarian activism, Belafonte was a longtime critic of the U.S. foreign policy.

Garveyism and Afrocentrism, while different, are grounded in their shared nature of being expressions of a call for National conscience.

The story of German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) and his posthumous reception almost reads like the plot of an airport spy thriller.

THERE is a commonly-held view that while capitalism in its early stages brings about unemployment and hence an accentuation of poverty, this initial damage is subsequently reversed as it keeps growing

The universal premises of culture and politics have been subject to criticism from the moment that Enlightenment theories emerged. In postmodern theory, radical skepticism replaces judgement and makes universal speculation seem like either an absurd game or a violent imposition.

It is not strange that the US, Canada, and Australia do not sympathize with the Palestinians because they themselves were settlers too who wiped out whole cultures and confiscated their land.

‘Metabolic rift’ Marx’s prophecy at work..

Ian Angus discusses the scientific developments that led Marx to develop metabolic rift theory in the 1800s, and a new generation to rediscover it the 21st century.

It will be attractive to the Global South, writes Tony Kevin. It will cause consternation in the Western war party camp.

Responding to State Department criticism of Mexico’s popular electoral reform, President AMLO denounced U.S. “meddling”, support for coups, and the Monroe Doctrine. He said, “There is more democracy today in Mexico than in the United States… because here the people govern, and there the oligarchy govern”.

Ten years since his passing, the legacy of Commander Hugo Chávez lives on in the people of Venezuela and the world.