Percy Bysshe Shelley: Romanticism and Revolution
During the gloom of the early nineteenth century, Shelley’s rage against injustice and revolutionary ardour burned with an intensity perhaps unmatched in the history of art.
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Why Socialism?
Article by Albert Einstein, the world-famous physicist, originally published in the inaugural issue of the renowned US socialist magazine, ‘Monthly Review’ (May 1949), in which he expresses his views on the subject of socialism.
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We Don’t Need to Wait for Centuries to Build a Better World
Repressive rule, whether through monarchs, armed force or economics, is not forever. Nothing of human creation is forever. Capitalism isn’t an exception and will be history when enough people decide to make it so. Organize!
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Defying Capitalism and Socialism, Kumarappa and Gandhi had Imagined a Decentralised Indian Economy
At a time when the urban leadership was keen on rapid industrialisation, Gandhi concluded that it was necessary to revive village industries. The development of the village economy was meant to be the answer to the debate between the economic ideologies of capitalism and communism.
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Capitalism | Imperialism | Online Blog | People's movements | Socialism | World Economy | World Politics
What Is Socialism for the Twenty-First Century?
Socialism for the twenty-first century is not a statist society where decisions are top-down and where all initiative is the property of state office-holders or cadres of self-reproducing vanguards. It rejects a state that stands over and above society and squeezes “the living civil society like a boa constrictor”.
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Capitalism | Imperialism | Online Blog | People's movements | Socialism | World Economy | World Politics
In the Shadow of the Blockade: Stories of Resistance from El Maizal Commune
A discussion with seasoned communards of one of Venezuela’s flagship communes about how they see the country’s situation, the solutions they have learned through experience, and the future they project for the besieged country.
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Caste | Communalism | Culture | Fascism | Indian Economy | Indian Politics | People's movements | Print Edition | Socialism
A Gandhian Case to Repeal Sedition Law
The CJI rightly asked why independent India needs a colonial-era law used to convict freedom fighters, for the law cannot persist unless a vestige of colonial mindset persists.
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Imperialism | Print Edition | Socialism | USA
Cuba: Hell, Purgatory and Paradise
When they tell me, a Brazilian, that there is no democracy in Cuba, I descend from the abstraction of words to reality. How many photos and news have been seen or are seen of Cubans in misery, beggars scattered on the sidewalks, children abandoned in the streets, families under the viaducts?
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How Not to Unite a Class: a Response to DSA’s Class Unity Caucus
A response to a debate among socialist activists about the relationship between oppression and class and why getting the answer right is essential to forging a united class struggle.
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The New Cold War on China
Just as the USA declared a Cold War against the Soviet Union and China in the 1940s-50s, as part of a grand strategy to secure its global hegemony in the immediate post-Second World War era, today it is declaring a New Cold War on China in the interest of maintaining that same imperial hegemony.
