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Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.

The first GDP estimate for India was made by Dadabhai Naoroji for the year 1867-68, though his estimate was extremely rough.

The revolutionary period left more than a founding image. It created institutions, social expectations, and forms of political work that continue to move within the society built upon them.

We refuse to allow a balance of power based on genocide and the crushing of all resistance to be celebrated as peace.

The current energy blockade deprives the Cuban people of resources essential for their survival. It must end immediately and unconditionally.

The task is to recognize the political capacities that remain and to build relationships with those who continue to organize and struggle, here and abroad.

To understand why work feels so meaningless today, we need to look at what human labor had to become for capitalism to come into existence.

At this hour, solidarity begins with a clear demand: the United States and Israel must end their illegal war, and they must retreat.

We have to get back the kind of public intellectuals, real left intellectuals, Marxist intellectuals who are not just academics.

I found, in studying Epicurus more deeply, that the central question is really the question of human freedom.

All of us hoped that our brigade would not only build popular power but also serve as a springboard for recharging Venezuela’s socialist project.

Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, Inequality & Change Center. Placing current developments in broad historical context, Pickard situates today’s media crisis within a century-long struggle to establish and maintain genuine public media against the overpowering dominance and relentless pushback of private corporate media.

A lot of contemporary scientific views are essentially dialectical. They don’t use that language.

The beauty of Marx’s analysis in ecological terms is that he provided the only theoretical approach that connected society and nature.

Ecological science turned toward struggle must be intimately associated with the class struggle.

The McCarthy Era and the controversies of the 1960s and 1970s might not seem terribly relevant to a new generation of activists. But the old questions remain, and the left still needs to confront them.

“When the earthquake came,” Raimelis recalled, “we already knew how to work together.”

China’s Marxist economic policy was developed to deal with a specific country at a specific stage of development. But this does not mean that it is not relevant to other countries.

The conference in Lahore centered on the principal contradictions of our time: world capitalism, neocolonialism, and imperialism on the one hand, and the forces resisting them on the other. It is rare for seminars like these to have such clarity of purpose.