How Socialists Invented the Summer Holiday
In 1930s France, the labour movement made summer holidays a priority — and forced bosses to pay workers for time at the beach.
‘Green Economic Growth’ Is a Myth
There are ‘no realistic scenarios’ to make the economic growth demanded by capitalism compatible with a safe climate, researchers who advised the United Nations found.
Capitalism and Democracy in Constant Conflict: Why?
The capitalist economic system has always had a big problem with politics in societies with universal suffrage.
My Solution for Turkey, Syria, and the Kurds
The Kurdish leader calls for a “democratic nation project” able to unite citizens of different ethnic backgrounds and cultural traditions.
“Dripping with Blood and Dirt”: How British Capitalism Relied on Slavery
In response to the global explosion of the new Black Lives Matter wave, young people in Britain are taking unprecedented steps to reappraise the British legacy of imperialism and colonialism.
Black Labor and the Fight for Reparations
Corporate America owes its wealth and power over us to the dead labor of generations of Black people who were literally worked to death.
US: Crimes Against Humanity at Home and Abroad
Since its inception the US has brutally repressed every country that stood in its way of its expansion for control of resources and its entitlement to limitless accumulation of vast wealth for a few.
Learnings from Hiroshima and Nagasaki – Two Articles
We cannot change what happened, neither the heinous military nor the tragic moral stains that indelibly mark its occurrence. But we can rise above it, and commit ourselves to building a sane, safe, and civilized future.
Humanity Must Rise to the Legacy of the Hiroshima Survivors – Two Articles
75 years after bombings, witnesses struggle to remind us of the horrors of nuclear weapons.
Cuba’s Medical Brigades in Africa Embody a Long Tradition of Solidarity
From medical to military, agricultural, educational, cultural support and more, the Cuban footprint in Africa dates back to the national struggles against colonialism.