February 20, 2024
"I never choose activism. It chose me," Riham Barghouti began. "It's like I was born into royalty, but in my case the exact opposite...I was born into a people being dispossessed, a history being erased, a culture being appropriated, a land being confiscated."
February 20, 2024
Particular battles often have a significance that goes beyond the immediate context, of which even the combatants may not be fully aware at the time... The battle between the Kisan movement and the Modi government falls into the same genre. At the most obvious level, it has been seen as a climbdown by the Modi government in the face of the incredible resoluteness shown by the agitating peasants. At another level, it has also been seen as a setback for neoliberalism...
February 20, 2024
It isn’t all black and white, of course. “Mastery over nature” doesn’t by definition preclude environmental conservation, nor does indigeneity bar overexploitation. But neither is the resulting system a mush of gray. For capitalists themselves cast the operative distinctions here as a matter of celebrated principle.
February 20, 2024
Zhun Xu, author of "From Commune to Capitalism: How China’s Peasants Lost Collective Farming and Gained Urban Poverty," spoke alongside Chris Matlhako, Elias Khalil Jabbour, and Bikrum Gill on a panel titled, “Political Economies of Chinese Socialism.”
February 20, 2024
Value Chains thoroughly and powerfully critiques modern-day forms of capitalism by bringing back to the table the much-needed analytical lens of imperialism to show the continuities of unevenness, an unequal world economic system, and the dominance of powerful corporations and nations over other regions, places, economies, labour and resources.
February 20, 2024
The short answer is that when the U.S. was involved in Afghanistan, we cut deals with many warlords, shorthand for gangsters, that's number one. Number two: Afghanistan is quite rich with mineral wealth, which ironically enough, may end up going to the People's Republic of China, which is quite close to the Pakistanis, which was the major creator and backer of the Taliban, who are now in power. The third point, however, is that the Taliban is going to have a hard way to go..."
February 20, 2024
In the week before the COP26 international summit, John Bellamy Foster offered a lecture analyzing the climate emergency and how we can achieve climate justice: October 26th at 1 ET
February 20, 2024
"Sensing Injustice" is a modern history of American legal practice....
February 20, 2024
'Radical Seattle' identifies the IWW as a catalyst for the germination of a class consciousness that encouraged individual laborers to recognize a kinship in their struggle and respond collectively.
February 20, 2024
In a discussion of the new book, "Extraordinary Threat: The U.S. Empire, the Media and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts Against Venezuel," Justin Podur clarifies: What they're doing in Colombia is what they say is happening in Venezuela..."
