The Changpas’ Way of Life Is Undergoing Shocks and Disruption
Like many other indigenous peoples, this pastoral community has a custodian relationship with nature. But development and global warming are changing that.
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Santhal Hul Wasn’t Just the First Anti-British Revolt, It Was Against All Exploitation
The 19th century rebellion actually began as a movement against exploitation by Indian ‘upper’ caste zamindars, moneylenders, merchants and police officials who had come to dominate the economic sphere of Santhal life.
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Online Blog | Russia | Ukraine | USA
Our Latest Interview with Jacques Baud
In this interview, Jacques Baud talks about the latest situation in the geopolitical struggle that is the Ukraine-Russia war. He argues that the world is not either black or white and that Western countries have taken the situation too far.
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How Marxists Brought Science to Politics and Politics to Science
We need to understand the links between science, politics, and commercial interests. For Marxists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, these were some of the most important questions to be addressed in their work. The cross-fertilization between Marxism and science had major implications for the development of both.
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What is Socialist Feminism?
There is a fundamental interconnection between women’s struggle and class struggle. All those women’s struggles which build collective confidence among women are important to building class consciousness; and all those class struggles which seek to build the social and cultural autonomy of the working class are necessarily linked to the struggle for women’s liberation.
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Ten Questions About Marx—More Than Twenty Years After Marx’s Ecology
More than twenty years after the publication of Marx’s Ecology (Monthly Review Press, 2000), author John Bellamy Foster and interviewer Roberto Andrés discuss the roots of Marx’s ecological thought, from the Greek atomists to the Enlightenment to Malthus.
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The Meaning of ‘So-Called Primitive Accumulation’
Marx considered “primitive accumulation” to be a misleading and erroneous concept. Understanding what he actually wrote shines light on two essential Marxist concepts: exploitation and expropriation.
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China | Imperialism | Online Blog | Racism | Russia
Black King of Songs
Chinese broadcasters have several times aired shows that feature Paul Robeson (1898-1976), one of the most popular African American singers and actors of his era and a well-known civil rights activist. It’s part of the history that connects Black internationalism with the experiences of Chinese people.
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Capitalism | Imperialism | Online Blog | USA
America, Where Great Literature Kicked The Bucket
“I am endlessly grateful to American literature. But it is gone. I come to its tombstones, and I mourn. But after laying down some flowers in front of great names, I know that it is time to move on…. This is not the America that I loved and admired. That is why I do not live there, anymore, for many years.”
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Guru Nanak — Unravelling the World, the Idea of Humanity, the State and the Ultimate
Guru Nanak lived and treaded this world for seven decades from 1469 to 1539 AD. In the course of his life and travels, he touched upon many aspects of the knowledge and practices prevalent then, the ubiquitous religious bigotry and a society fragmented and fractured along caste and gender lines.
