Class Struggle Built the Welfare State
The welfare state wasn’t created by enlightened dialogue or “sensible” moderate politics. It was a concession won by workers against bosses through decades of struggle.
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Karl Marx: March Ye Workers, and the World Shall be Free!
May 5 marks the 203rd birth anniversary of Marx, whose life traversed through Trier, Berlin, Paris and London, chiselling his ideas that exposed capitalism’s ‘cunning transaction’ that defrauds the working class till today.
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How France Continues to Dominate its Former Colonies in Africa
Interview with the authors of ‘Africa’s Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story’ – on how in France’s former African colonies, imperialist monetary policies from Paris continue to cripple domestic economies and undermine democracy.
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Zimbabwe Celebrates 41 Years of Independence
For decades Zimbabwe’s people fought for freedom, finally winning independence on April 18, 1980. Thousands of Africans died for it. Because independent Zimbabwe’s rulers are not willing to be US stooges, the US has imposed sanctions on the country. Lift the sanctions!
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China and Cuba’s Vaccine Internationalism – Two Articles
As rich nations stockpile COVID-19 vaccines, China is providing a lifeline to Global South nations spurned by Western pharmaceuticals and excluded by the West’s neocolonial vaccine nationalism. The vaccines being developed by Cuba will also soon be available to the poor countries.
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Increasing Desperation as the U.S. Capitalist System Declines
Like all previous economic systems in recorded history, capitalism is on track to repeat the same three-step trip: birth, evolution, and death. The timing and other specifics of each system’s trip differ. U.S. capitalism too has reached and passed its peak.
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Biden Announces End to America’s Afghanistan War – Two Articles
Was Everything Biden Said About Ending the Afghanistan War a Lie?; The 20 Year War: How the West Destroyed Afghanistan.
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Taking Nuclear Vulnerabilities Seriously
All nuclear-weapon states have admitted to the possibility that deterrence could fail.
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An “Accumulation of Anger” in Putin’s Russia: an Interview with Boris Kagarlitsky
World-renowned Russian sociologist and activist Boris Kagarlitsky talks about Putin’s power system, Navalny’s return, and the coming tectonic shifts in Russian politics.
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175 Years of Border Invasions: The Anniversary of the U.S. War on Mexico and the Roots of Northward Migration
Amid renewed fear mongering about an “invasion” at the U.S.-Mexico border, this week’s 175th anniversary of the 1846–1848 war the U.S. government instigated with Mexico is a reminder that throughout U.S. history, invasions have gone almost exclusively from north to south, not vice versa.
