In this interview on KFAI-Minneapolis with hosts Don Olson and Dave Gutknecht, Michael Tigar encounters one of his clients for the first time, live on the radio. | more…
‘Processes of societal change must be carried out both “from above” and “from below”, without turning our backs on these contested spaces,’ said Antonio González Plessman, one of those interviewed by Cira Pascual Marquina and Chris Gilbert… | more…
As then, and today, the primary objective of American fascist movements is to undermine the democratic impulse that threatens concentrated wealth… | more…
“Settler colonialism” begins in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida in 1565. Actually, September 15, 1565. I think people sort of know that, but they’re so taken with the anglocentric narrative… | more…
While deploring “shameful” aspects of Stalin’s rule and its “heavy hand” that limited economic experimentation, Grossman finds the Soviet presence to have been crucial in erasing fascism from public life, “breaking the chokehold of cartels, banks, chauvinist press lords and arrogant Junkers.” | more…
…Itoh introduces, compares and contrasts the development of the two most historically significant branches of Japanese Marxism, the ‘Rōnō-ha’ and ‘Kōza-ha’ schools. He then goes on to discuss the particular approach he favours, the ‘Uno’ school… | more…
Read as a short, punchy manifesto it serves as a timely call- to-action for a generalist audience that seeks to organise against what bell hooks (2004) calls “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy”. I agree with Eisenstein that thinking with black radical conceptu- alisations of intersectionality is central to such a project…. | more…
It’s true that as of June, this fiscal year’s apprehensions had topped 1 million for the first time since 2006. Still, this only seems high because of a sharp contrast with the previous 14 years…. | more…
The sanctions have severely affected the commune’s production and also the life of the pueblo. Imperialism finished off Iraq and Libya, and they are trying to do the same with us. Sanctions amount to a declaration of war…. | more…
Every major economic step taken by the Narendra Modi government, from Goods and Services Tax, to demonetisation, to the farm laws, has been aimed against the petty production sector and has sought to carry forward the process of primitive accumulation of capital, in accordance with the neoliberal agenda. | more…
Lamrani abundó que en este contexto de doble castigo bloqueo-pandemia resulta lógico el malestar de las personas, escenario que Estados Unidos busca aprovechar para conseguir su objetivo trazado desde el triunfo de la Revolución en 1959: ‘romper el orden establecido y conseguir un cambio de régimen’…. | more…
Shelter and Solidarity brings together Vijay Prashad, Ezili Dantò and Moise St Louis to try to come to terms with the Haitian and Cuban peoples’ complex responses to forced reverse-reparations, sanctions, invasions, and constant threats of “regime change”…. while keeping a focus on what we have to do, as activists in the heart of the Empire…. | more…
A common line of argument from the contemporary American left is that “socialism has never been tried.” It’s understandable that Western socialists would make this argument to members of the US proletariat, who have been deeply affected by years of red scare propaganda. This argument however, ignores the millions who have struggled and died in an effort to move beyond the contradictions of capitalism… | more…