While the coup plotters in no way represent an alternative for Niger, the economic sanctions and threats of military intervention by ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States), backed by Macron, are a real danger for the population.
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How GM Destroyed Poletown
The story of the construction of the Poletown plant is illustrative of the collaboration between big business and government, the failures of business unionism, and the shortcomings of liberals and the Communist Party
Nicaragua – Statement on the Situation of the Universities and the Central American University
Academics, teachers and university workers express deep concern at the Ortega-Murillo regime’s offensive against Nicaraguan universities.
Cornel West for President? Part 4 – Angela Davis for Vice-President 1984 and 1988
Davis’ loyalty to the CP led her in 1980 and 1984 to accept the party’s assignment that she be the running mate of diehard Stalinist party leader Gus Hall.
I’m a Ukrainian leftist. This is why I support Boris Kagarlitsky
The left-wing Russian theorist, who has gone from pro-war hawk to anti-war political prisoner, deserves solidarity
Why (and how) to campaign for the liberation of Boris Kagarlitsky
We express our solidarity with Boris Kagarlitsky and demand his immediate release, as well as that of all those detained on political grounds.
Hugo Blanco, Peruvian Revolutionary, Dead at 88. I Met Him Once. It Was a Magical Experience
Blanco, the Peruvian revolutionary is dead. I met him once back in 1996. It was an experience of magical realism.
Social reproduction, rebellion and the problem of the state
Elections are superimposed on social struggles through a process that obscures and disorganizes them, and that recodifies grassroots demands, altering and distorting their language and content.
Cornel West for President? What Does the Left Think? Part 1
West’s candidacy will take place in the left lane of American politics usually occupied by other groups such as the Green Party and the Democratic Socialists of America.
Dominican Republic: US government endorses President Abinader’s racist violence
US Subsecretary of State Wendy Sherman’s April visit to Santo Domingo served to ratify the strategic character of the Dominican regime’s subordination to the US and to iron out the differences that arose during the year . . .
On the Anniversary of Russia’s War on Ukraine: Analyzing the Roots of Russian Imperialism
Ukraine has long been a victim of Russian imperialism, pre-capitalist, capitalist, Soviet, and then state-capitalist.
Ukraine and Its Language in the Political Imagination of the Russian Nation and Empire
In order to understand Putin’s war against Ukraine and its people, one must take a close look at the place that Ukraine, its state, language, and culture occupy in the imperial and national imagination of Russians.
Brazil: End of the Nightmare?
In addition, Lula will be, like Dilma Rousseff, under the permanent threat of a “parliamentary coup.”
“Cancel Culture” and Its Perils
There is no question that “cancel culture” is a legitimate tool of a vibrant democratic culture, especially as it allows the powerless to redress the abuses and the offensive behavior directed at them by powerful public figures.
Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement
25 Truths to Build Campus Power Despite Precarity
A review of Power despite Precarity by Joe Berry and Helena Worthen
A review of Power Despite Precarity: Strategies for the Contingent Faculty Movement in Higher Education by Joe Berry and Helena Worthen. Pluto Press, 2021
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