Online Features
Struggle for Memory Continues 50 Years After Chile Coup
We must continue to remember so that no one is forgotten, so that no face is forgotten, and so that our experience is not forgotten.
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 Sick to Death of Florida’s Racism
Before the Florida Department of Education issued its curriculum directive that slavery in the United States did, after all, produce “personal benefits” for the enslaved in the form of a well-stocked resumé of trades, useful after Emancipation in 1863, the board members might have consulted a seminal document in the literature of the oppressed—Angela Davis’s 1971 essay, “Reflections on the Black Woman’s Role in the Community of Slaves.”
Cornel West for President? Part 3 – Shirley Chisholm 1972 Campaign
The most important Black candidate of the radical 1960s and 70s, if we judge by votes and delegates, was Shirley Chisholm.
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
An assessment of Kargalitsky’s political evolution
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.
Ukraine and the abstraction of violence: my reply to Tom Dale
Achcar responds to Dale on arms to Ukraine and NATO.
Cornel West for President? Part 2 – The Black Candidates of 1968
Here we turn to look at the experience of four Black presidential candidates in 1968.
Ukraine and the violence of abstraction
A critique of Achcar and Chomsky on arms to Ukraine and NATO.
Adolfo Gilly, Great Latin American Left Intellectual, Dead at 94
Adolfo Gilly, one of the great Latin American left intellectuals of his time, has died at the age of 94.
Open Letter on the Occasion of the São Paulo Forum in Brasilia from June 29 to July 2, 2023
Daniel Ortega and what remains of the Sandinista Front present themselves as left-wing and anti-imperialist, but, far from this proclaimed discourse, they have for many years already abandoned their principles…
Boy Murdered by French Police, Protests Follow, Macron Calls them “Inexplicable,” After all, Race Doesn’t Exist in France
I say he was a French boy, because in official circles in France and in society at large race does not exist and so therefore neither does racism.
France: Criminal policing, systemic racism, anti-social policies: supporting a legitimate revolt
The NPA calls on people to mobilize alongside angry young people, to gather in front of town halls, every evening if necessary, to express our rage and our demands.
Appeal on Behalf of Working-Class Youth in France
A large proportion of young people are subjected to racism on a daily basis, victims of prejudice, discrimination and violence.
Shifting Focus: Organizing for an Ecosocialist Future
Akuno’s advice on how to build social movements consistent with our ecosocialist values
Toxic Entanglements
A review of Nicole Fabricant’s Fighting to Breathe
Review of “activist ethnographer” Nicole Fabricant’s book on youth activism and environmental justice in the South Baltimore Peninsula.
The Peace Movement and Ukraine: John Feffer Replies to Critics
John Feffer responds in an interview to peace movement critics regarding the war in Ukraine
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.
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