Crossing the Storm: EZLN Marks 30 Years with a 120-Year Plan
The Zapatista liberation movement gathered in Chiapas to honor three decades of struggle and prepare for an uncertain future.
A New Left Party Shakes Up Germany – 2 Articles
A new political party in Germany has been launched in Germany. It aims to draw a clear line between Berlin’s belligerence towards Russia and how the weight of that stance falls most heavily on the German working class through deindustrialization and austerity.
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The Mask Has Slipped. Don’t Let Them Put It Back On.
To paraphrase the great Du Bois: This is not the United States gone mad; this is not aberration nor insanity; this is the United States; this is the real soul of empire — naked, drenched in blood, built by blood money; honest, for once.
Argentina: Shock Therapy, Resistance, and the Role of the Left
With Congress likely to approve Milei’s neoliberal agenda, the only limits to his onslaught will come through mass mobilization, coordinated strike activity, and other forms of social unrest.
NITI Aayog’s Unbelievable Poverty Statistics – 4 Articles
‘Everything Wrong with NITI Aayog’s Claim of 24.8 Crore Emerging Out of Poverty in 9 Years’; ‘Niti Aayog “Poverty” Stats: Serious Theoretical, Methodological, Empirical Questions’; ‘Three Charts: What the Modi Government Wants Us to Forget Before the 2024 Lok Sabha Polls’; ‘Hunger, Undernutrition Stalking India; Placed Worse Than Least Developed Nations’.
In the Age of Hindutva, Why Madhu Dandavate’s Legacy Must Be Cherished
Remembering Madhu Dandavate, one of the finest socialists of India, whose birth centenary falls this month. He was born on January 21, 1924.
Capitalism and the Production of Poverty
The perpetual production of ever-changing forms of poverty is an inevitable part of the creative destruction that characterizes capitalism. The form of poverty changes, because capitalism is dynamic and constantly changing, but poverty remains.
Upsurge of Neo-Fascism and ‘Dollarisation’
Argentina’s new president Javier Milei proposes to use U.S. dollars as the currency of his country, while abolishing its central bank altogether. This means not just maintaining a fixed exchange rate between the dollar and the domestic currency, but an abolition of the domestic currency altogether.
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How America’s Oligarchy Paves the Road to Fascism
Concentrated wealth and power are undermining democracy. Here’s what Joe Biden ought to be saying and doing about it.
How the Hell Can Trump Rise in the Polls?
Trump is threatening to destroy the core institutions of American democracy and to rule as authoritarians in other countries do — authoritarians whom he praises.