Article Subjects and Geography: Inequality
Socialism Against the Siege
January 1, 2022
Despite Cuba's advantages—its free, universal public health system and its capacity for rapid scientific development, which put it at the forefront in research and vaccine production globally—it was unable to escape the pandemic's blows.
Disease, Disability, and Paternalism in the Fight for Medicare for All
December 1, 2021
The sick and disabled need true co-conspirators who hold politicians accountable, who value the sick and disabled as expert strategists speaking to the needs of the community; who understand and amplify our urgency and our anger. We need universal, single-payer health care—comprehensive care for all, regardless of income or health status—now.
The Present in History, 2021
November 1, 2021
The job of socialists is to engage with public policy from a class perspective, informed by a Marxist understanding of contemporary capitalism—not to reform it, but to abolish it.
Keeping the Challenges Before Us: The Reissuing of ‘Reluctant Reformers’ and Its Contemporary Implications
November 1, 2021
The reissuing of Reluctant Reformers can inform our attempts to grapple with how the unity of the oppressed can be forged in such a way that the interests of the historically marginalized do not continue to get…well, marginalized.
COVID, Disablement, and the “Return to Normal”
October 1, 2021
For many disabled people, the "abnormal" state of things over the last year and a half is not such an estranged discontinuity from the previous state of things. Certainly, just like everyone, pandemic life for disabled people has been exceedingly difficult, painful, oppressive, and deadly. But the "normal" of pre-pandemic life was also exceedingly difficult, painful, oppressive, and deadly.
The South African Pandemic of Racial Capitalism
October 1, 2021
South Africa's COVID-19 pandemic is one of racial capitalism, entangled with histories of imperial state formation, settler colonialism, and a hierarchical, global-neoliberal public policy architecture.
Herd impunity?
October 1, 2021
A new poem by Black Agenda Report poet-in-residence Raymond Nat Turner.