Yellow Shades upon a Global Color Line: Historicizing Filipino America and the “Deadliest Phase of U.S. Imperialism” Article
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Yellow Shades upon a Global Color Line: Historicizing Filipino America and the “Deadliest Phase of U.S. Imperialism”

by Michael Viola
Michael Viola explores the building of the Filipino identity in the context of U.S. imperialism. The broad-reaching effects of this "deadliest phase of imperialism," combined with pervasive anti-Asian racism in the United States, fuels the idea of a collective political project that "comes with the praxis, the power, and the price of a unique lineage" extending across an ocean and intimately connected to the dark history of U.S. militarism abroad.
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April 2026 (Volume 77, Number 11) Notes from the Editors

April 2026 (Volume 77, Number 11)

by The Editors
While the "world is rapidly approaching tipping points that spell irreversible and catastrophic climate change," write The Editors, "we are not seeing the necessary turn from ecological reform to ecological revolution, but rather the rise of ecological reaction.… An absolute no-quarters war from above is now being waged against all political attempts to address climate change." This attack is epitomized by "the Donald Trump administration's goal of removing the 2009 Endangerment Finding of the Clean Air Act that underlies all national climate legislation in the United States." While this tactic is unlikely to succeed, the proliferation of similar attacks clearly demonstrate that "[m]onopoly-finance capital has now abandoned the energy transition, which was its only answer to climate change."
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The Idea of the ‘Uyghur Genocide’ and the Realities of Xinjiang Review of the Month

The Idea of the ‘Uyghur Genocide’ and the Realities of Xinjiang

by Vijay Prashad and Tings Chak
What is really happening in Xinjiang? Vijay Prashad and Tings Chak write: "There is no evidence of a policy of physical annihilation of the Uyghur peoples by the Chinese government, unlike say, direct evidence of extermination by the Israeli government against the occupied Palestinian people. There are no mass graves and no accusations of systematic killing—the hallmarks of a genocide."
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The Material Basis of a Spectre: Why China’s Youth Are Rediscovering Mao Article

The Material Basis of a Spectre: Why China’s Youth Are Rediscovering Mao

by Yinhao Zhang
Yinhao Zhang explains the aspects of contemporary Chinese society contributing to the resurgent interest in Mao Zedong among China's youth. Mao, Zhang writes, is capturing the interest of a generation dissatisfied with the entrenched power structures and class privilege accompanying the neoliberalization of markets over recent decades. Indeed, these youth are revisiting the very roots of the Chinese Revolution, signaling a yearning for a radical political future.
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From Classic Labor to the Labor of the ‘General Intellect’: The Impact of the Digital Intelligence Era on Socialist Labor Theory Article

From Classic Labor to the Labor of the ‘General Intellect’: The Impact of the Digital Intelligence Era on Socialist Labor Theory

by Te Li
Applying Marxist labor theory to the rise of artificial intelligence and its effects on workers, Te Li presents an understanding of labor in the age of increasing reliance on algorithms and digital technologies. As Li argues: "In the civilization of general intellect labor, where the knowledge economy dominates, knowledge-intensive labor such as scientific research, technological innovation, artistic creation, and education and training will become primary forms of labor."
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The daily, nightly news Poetry

The daily, nightly news

by Marge Piercy
A new poem by Marge Piercy.
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French Theory in the Intellectual Cold War Review of the Month

French Theory in the Intellectual Cold War

by John Bellamy Foster
In 1966, Johns Hopkins hosted a seemingly innocuous international conference titled "The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man," featuring leading figures of what would later be known as "French Theory." However, John Bellamy Foster writes, far from a simple meeting of intellectuals, this represented a "politically motivated attempt to create a beachhead for French structuralism in the United States that would counter the radicalization then taking place."
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Could Capitalism Have Thrived Without Colonialism? Article

Could Capitalism Have Thrived Without Colonialism?

by Vijay Prashad
Vijay Prashad critiques the argument that colonialism was, at most, ancillary to the transition between capitalism and feudalism in Western Europe. Instead, Prashad argues, "capitalism as it historically emerged—industrial, global, racialized, and imperial—was inseparable from colonial expropriation." This reality must fuel a Marxist conception of the global struggle for reparations for those who have been oppressed and exploited at the hands of empires past and present.
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Global South Struggles for Socialism and the Workers’ Side of Marxism Article

Global South Struggles for Socialism and the Workers’ Side of Marxism

by Chris Gilbert
Karl Marx originally planned to complement Capital with an additional work exploring capitalism from the side of the workers, which he never completed. In this article, Chris Gilbert argues that this projected "workers' side of Marxism" has a special relevance to the processes of anti-imperialist struggle in the Global South, explaining why they often turn to socialism despite underdeveloped productive forces and the relative scarcity of a classical proletariat.
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Trump’s Tariffs and the U.S. Multinational Firm Article

Trump’s Tariffs and the U.S. Multinational Firm

by Craig Medlen
Craig Medlen dissects the logic behind the Trump administration's efforts to impose tariffs as a way to counteract "unfair" U.S. trade deficits. Situating these deficits in the longer history of U.S. trade hegemony and its crumbling position in the global economy, Medlen uses incontrovertible data to illustrate how mainstream economic orthodoxy fails to acknowledge the effects of foreign inputs that integral to the workings of U.S. monopoly capital.
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Who Put This Border Here? Poetry

Who Put This Border Here?

by Linda Backiel
A new poem by Linda Backiel.
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Repression in the Classroom Review

Repression in the Classroom

by Paul Buhle
In this dual review, Paul Buhle lends contemporary context to the histories of McCarthyism found in the recently published A Blacklist Education, by Jane S. Smith, and Operation Mind, by Natalie Zemon Davis and Elizabeth Donovan. In these two books, Buhle writes, readers can find parallels with the was that is today being waged against university professors and students for political activities—a stark reminder that political witch-hunts did not end with Joe McCarthy.
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Western Marxism and the Myth of Capitalism’s Adamantine Chains Review of the Month

Western Marxism and the Myth of Capitalism’s Adamantine Chains

by John Bellamy Foster
In this talk from the inaugural conference of the Society for Peace, Internationalism, and Ecology, John Bellamy Foster relates the story of Prometheus, as presented in the plays of Aeschylus, to Western Marxism's "dialectic of defeat," in which capitalism is portrayed as an unbreakable bond for the working class. Instead, Foster says, we must recognize Prometheus as a subject who is freed from the seemingly inescapable fetters imposed upon him.
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The Slave Trade and the Industrial Revolution Debate: A Look at the Numbers Article

The Slave Trade and the Industrial Revolution Debate: A Look at the Numbers

by Thomas E. Lambert
Using historical databases and quantitative analysis, Thomas E. Lambert calls into question the assertion that the trans-Atlantic slave trade can be considered a separate phenomenon from, rather than a major supporting factor in, the Industrial Revolution in England. Asserting otherwise, he writes, is a to deny "a horrifying and inhuman part of the global history of capitalism."
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