Subjects Archives: Revolutions

In the mountainous coffee-growing region of Morán municipality, in Lara state, generations of campesino families have built their lives growing coffee. Steep slopes, misty mornings, and hard physical labor are part of daily life in this territory, where coffee is not only a crop but a way of organizing time, work, and community. In recent […]

The kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, at the hands of U.S. imperialism marks a new and extremely serious escalation in the sustained aggression against Venezuela’s sovereignty. Far from being an isolated or exceptional event, this episode is part of a prolonged offensive that combines economic and financial warfare, political […]

Robert Longa is a founding member of the Fuerza Patriótica Alexis Vive, a Venezuelan grassroots organization promoting communal construction. Based in Caracas’ 23 de Enero barrio, Longa has played a central role in building El Panal Commune and in advancing a strategic vision of communal power as the backbone of the Bolivarian Revolution. This conversation […]

On December 29, 2025, the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) celebrated its 65th anniversary in Havana. I was part of a delegation convened by Dr. Rosemari Mealy that attended the celebration along with 240 representatives of solidarity organizations from thirty-two countries around the world. Together we defied the escalating U.S. efforts to […]

Shaking the World: Reports from Revolutionary Venezuela is a new biweekly column by Cira Pascual Marquina for MR Online, offering frontline analysis of imperialism, popular power, and revolutionary struggle in Venezuela. There are moments when geopolitics stops being an abstraction and becomes something you feel in your body. In Caracas, January 3 was one of […]

The importance of revolutionary democracy is manifested in two critical axes of the socialist economy: the planning of economic development and the distribution of wealth.

As we enter the new year amid wars and deepening economic and environmental crises, we must turn frustration into a politics of possibility. Our New Development Theory sets out a path forward.

For those who lived through Richard Nixon’s lurch toward authoritarian rule, the period after his reelection in a landslide in November 1972 was frightening. (And it was a real landslide, with 60 percent of the vote.)

Over the years, the Center has trained thousands of popular educators. Marilín explains how the educators often find themselves in complex situations. “The Christians see us as communists, and the communists see us as Christians—though some of the latter recognize we are more communist than they are.”

The Cuban and Venezuelan people are offering hard-won lessons. It is our responsibility to study them—and to act.

On October 8, 2023, the Israeli war machine, armed and financed by Washington, launched the first genocide in history to be broadcast live before the eyes of the world. As we enter October 2025, the second year of this open genocide, neighborhoods in Gaza continue to be leveled, hospitals bombed, and children condemned to death […]

This reading list provides context for The Red Nation’s Indigenous Socialism. Socialism is the process of being able to live as Indigenous again in full collective determination of our present and future. Communism fulfills all that begets life on Mother Earth through the overturning of all forms of private property.

An Ethnographic Portrait of Youth, the Blockade and Survival in Havana Today, on the 72nd Anniversary of the July 26th Attack

Today marks the beginning of Fidel Castro’s centenary—a hundred years since the birth of the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution.

Today, three and a half decades since the parody trial that sent him to the firing squad, Ceausescu seems to take an extraordinary revenge from the counterrevolutionaries who overthrew his power.

Mutunga celebrates the Gen Z Revolution in Kenya, highlighting the successes of their collective leadership through analysis of the Kenyan government’s attempt to stifle celebrations of the Martyrs of the Gen Z Revolution who died in June of 2024.

In one of the most enduring axioms of revolutionary integrity, Amílcar Cabral—African liberation theorist, freedom fighter, and martyr—urged those engaged in the struggle for liberation and justice to “Tell no lies, claim no easy victories.”

The country’s ruling class had operated for centuries by pillaging its colonies while neglecting to build much industry at home. Portugal was the least developed country in Western Europe; 37 percent of the population couldn’t read or write.

The Philippines’ most famous leftist couple is the subject of a stirring new documentary.

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?”