Hunger Will Kill Us Before Coronavirus
UN’s World Food Programme has warned that the numbers of people who lived with acute hunger around the world would double due to COVID-19 by the end of 2020 ‘unless swift action is taken’.
Big Data and the Science of Manipulating the Masses
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society.”
Preserving the Human Experiment Through One of History’s Darkest Periods
Positioning itself squarely against what Noam Chomsky calls the ‘Reactionary International’, the Progressive International seeks to unite the forces of sanity and progress around the world.
A Tribute to Venezuela’s Endless Pursuit of Democracy
Venezuela is again the shining light of Democracy – pushing ahead with the 6 December 2020 National Assembly elections despite the endless challenges being faced by it both domestically and internationally.
New Wings for Socialism
What was missing in the old efforts to build a new socialist society was forgetting that along with building new material foundations, it is necessary to build new human beings; those early attempts tried to fly with things that only looked like wings.
Reading about Mussolini’s Italy in Modi’s India
There are uncanny parallels between the Italy of the 1920s and the India of the 2020s.
The World Bank: An ABC
A new form of decolonization is urgently required to get out of the predicament in which the World Bank has entrapped the world in general.
Against Advertising
Advertising is a constant feature of our everyday lives. As a result, we often ignore its real and unsavoury function: capitalist propaganda par excellence.
Hong Kong in Revolt
Hong Kong leftist intellectual Au Loong-Yu retraces the development of the protest movement in his place of birth over the past two decades, setting them within the context of broader political trends in mainland China and beyond.
Contradictions of the Belarus Protest: What We Can Learn
The working people of Belarus need to transform from passive cogs in the bureaucratic machine and slaves of money, trends, and brands into owners of the economy and politics.