Subjects Archives: Strategy

In the wake of Frantz Fanon’s 100th birthday, Sam Chian offers a close reading of The Wretched of the Earth, arguing that Fanon’s primary intervention lies in his class analysis of colonial societies. He examines his critique of the national bourgeoisie and the urban working class, and his insistence on the revolutionary potential of the rural peasantry and radical intellectuals. Chian suggest that for Fanon, the social composition of the anti-colonial struggle decisively shapes the post-colonial order, and that the socialist path he outlines remains structurally constrained but politically urgent.

Jeremy Corbyn’s strength lies in his ability to inspire a movement, but translating this into a viable party requires overcoming the same hegemonic forces that destroyed his Labour leadership.

U.S.-led sanctions have functioned as ‘silent killers’ in countries such as Iraq, Syria, and Venezuela.

Though still weighed down by debt and austerity, developing countries are beginning to chart alternative paths as a new mood takes hold in the Global South.

For Baran, the key to liberating the former colonies from the stranglehold of rapacious monopolies is not a reordering of international relations, not a campaign for a level international playing field, not alternative market institutions, nor a coalition of dissenters from the status quo, but a radical change in the social and economic structure of the oppressed country.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (born August 27, 1770—died November 14, 1831) was an important German philosopher. He is known as one of the main thinkers in German idealism and a key person in modern Western philosophy.

I am always amazed how little western governments are aware of their own (lack of) capabilities as well as of the nature and capabilities of their ‘enemies’.

Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Western imperialism’s key military alliance, describe recently announced increases in European arms spending as a collective effort to “safeguard our freedom and democracy”.

Last week the U.S. Congress passed the Trump Tax Cuts.

In many ways, however, the fight has only begun: the union must now secure a contract.

Deeming the African National Congress’s electoral strategies as beyond the pale, the South African Communist Party has committed itself to a new strategy.

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.”

Chris Townsend has been organizing workers, conducting political work for labor unions, and teaching young workers to organize for almost all his adult life. He is, as we say, “the real deal.” While most of us opine and pontificate about labor, Chris does the dirty work. He organizes. His contributions over several decades have played […]

By Russian as well as Anglo-American neurological and psychiatric standards, this man is a certifiable maniac.

UFCW Local 1518 in British Columbia has announced that 500 drivers in Greater Victoria unionized.

Activists say the City University of New York is escalating its repression against Palestine activism by suspending a student leader and terminating the positions of four faculty members who have been active in protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

China showcases a number of promising developments in the construction of socialism–though not without challenges and contradictions.

It is very important to distinguish between the Left criticism and the neoliberal criticism of the dirigiste strategy.

Diabetes is a silent epidemic, causing death and suffering on an unimaginable scale.

Israel Katz says the so-called ‘humanitarian city’ will be built on the ruins of Rafah.