Article Subjects and Geography: Inequality
AbortionÑThe Real Irish Lessons
February 1, 2023
Tomás Mac Sheoin reviews Road to Repeal, which documents the struggle for abortion rights in Ireland, from its constitutional prohibition to the ban's repeal in 2018.
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Notes from the Editors, January 2023
January 1, 2023
This month's "Notes from the Editors" marks the 30-year anniversary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The abject failure of this framework to enact meaningful progress on the planetary crisis continued to be on full display in 2022, including at November's COP27 in Egypt.
NATO and the Long War on the Third World
January 1, 2023
The global balance of power shifting. The resistance to NATO's push for a New Cold War is growing, particularly among the Third World countries that have historically borne the brunt of the West's imperial projects. It is the role of socialists living in the imperial core, Paweł Wargan writes, to support the peoples of the Third World as they rise up in the new era.
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Luisa Cáceres: Commune-Building in Urban Venezuela
December 1, 2022
A visit to a Venezuelan commune reveals a fascinating look into the creative ways communards forge ways of life in urban centers, and how these projects intersect with the much-needed transformations required for a grassroots and socially integrated ecology.
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New York: Forest of Symbols
October 1, 2022
New York City is facing a crisis in its urban ecosystem. As wealthy developers and real estate mega-projects rupture the connections between people and the social and spatial webs making up the city's once-rich undergrowth, how can city-dwellers nurture and restore their metropolitan habitat?
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Intelligence Under Racial Capitalism: From Eugenics to Standardized Testing and Online Learning
September 1, 2022
From the era of overt eugenic research to the present-day education system, the attempts to categorize and rank individuals' "intelligence" through testing and statistics reflects and reinforces the power of racist, capitalist, and imperialist institutions.
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The Roots of the Science-Practice Gap: A Materialist View
June 1, 2022
The scientific development of humanity—that is, the ability to investigate the planet collectively, integrating reason and empirical data—allowed humans to understand the world with increasing precision and transform it powerfully. Despite this, attitudes against this knowledge have been widespread, both individually and collectively.
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Histories of Racial Capitalism and the Dynamics of the Capitalist System
May 1, 2022
The term racial capitalism is a bit of a shibboleth. Those who invoke the phrase draw from a longstanding tradition of radical scholarship that brings attention to the material force of racialism in systems of capitalist domination. There is, however, a mounting critique that questions the term's usefulness, casting doubt on the scholarly project initiated by Cedric Robinson. In the face of such concerns, Histories of Racial Capitalism is a much needed contribution.
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