“Mexico Should be Our Example of What Is Possible”
Teri Mattson moved to Mexico three years ago. She talks about the changes taking place in Mexico, under Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), the Morena Party and the fourth transformation.
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Antiwar Resistance Within the Military During the Vietnam War
This article, first published on October 17, 2017 by the Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee, seeks to tell the truth and learn the lessons of the US war in Indochina, and of the broad, diverse protest movement that ended the war.
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Fidel
Fidel not only survived the fury of the Batista dictatorship, guerrilla war, and 600 assassination attempts, but led a revolutionary process which after 60 years, continues to resist and triumph.
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The Strategic Revolutionary Thought and Legacy of Hugo Chávez Ten Years After His Death
Hugo Chávez emerged in the history of Venezuela when the thesis that ideological disputes throughout the world had ended was most entrenched. Far from being over, however, history had an important task for the Venezuelan people, who rose up against neoliberalism in 1989 and who continue to build a project of twenty first-century socialism today.
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Engels and the Second Foundation of Marxism
Historical materialism, in the dominant twentieth-century narrative in the West, is understood as confined to social sciences and humanities. However, John Bellamy Foster writes, Marx and Engels did not have such a limited conception, instead engaging with the natural sciences, providing insight into the dialectics of nature.
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Politics of the Commons: The Open-Ended History of Communes
A look back at the history of communes and how they are supposed to be more than “appendages” of state institutions.
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“Hide Nothing from The Masses; Tell No Lies”—Some Lessons from Amilcar Cabral
Many of the political parties that led their countries towards the attainment of political independence in Africa have betrayed the principles that guided them. But, not all hope is lost. We can draw inspiration for a better future for Africa from the immortal revolutionary Amilcar Cabral.
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‘Where Danger Lies…’: The Communal Alternative in Venezuela
The project of communal socialism that was emerging in Venezuela during Chavez’s time is precisely the kind of system change that could save the climate and the Earth System more generally. A look at some of the ecological aspects of Venezuela’s project of communal socialism today.
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Healing the Wounds of War in Vietnam
War is much more than a memory for Việt people who continue to navigate a landscape of unexploded ordnance and chemical contamination. All wars are fought endlessly in the bodies, minds, and lands of those who are invaded as well as those who fight.
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Introduction to the New Edition of ‘The Hidden History of the Korean War’
First published in 1952, I. F. Stone’s ‘The Hidden History …’ was a stunning indictment of the U.S. war machine and the mass media’s unquestioning acceptance of the government’s deception. This new introduction explores the book’s continuing relevance to current events, including the rapidly escalating New Cold War.
