The Present in History, 2021
The job of socialists is to engage with public policy from a class perspective, informed by a socialist understanding of contemporary capitalism—not to reform it, but to abolish it.
Defying Empire: Cuba’s Contributions to the Fight Against Racism and White Supremacy
Cuba remains under intense attack by the Empire precisely because no other country in the world has contributed so much and in so many ways to the struggle against white supremacy and what it represents.
Class Warfare and Socialist Resistance: Nicaragua, Cuba, Venezuela as Existential Threats to the U.S.
There are two reasons why Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela pose such an existential threat to the U.S.: first, they set an example that it is possible to build a society that centers the material needs and interests of the people over those of capital; second, the class warfare politics of the U.S. state.
Mother Nature, Inc.
Wall Street investors have hit the jackpot. Soon they’ll be able to buy, own, and dictate The Commons, public lands, the world of Mother Nature.
Memories of Socialist Hungary
The author reflects on his family’s memories of socialist Hungary, drawing comparisons between their experiences and the current Hungarian government’s anti-communist slander.
Caste | Culture | Fascism | India | Print Edition
The Homogenisation of Education
If education in India is to serve its true purpose, then it must have a content oriented towards serving India’s needs. But globalised capital would like the educated middle class, from which it employs its personnel, to be as alike everywhere as possible. Modi’s NEP is seeking to serve its needs.
Capitalism | Climate Change | Online Blog | Science | USA | World Economy | World Politics
The Planetary Rift
The widespread view on the left that Marx had adopted an extreme productivist view of the human domination of nature—and hence had failed to perceive the natural limits to production and ecological contradictions in general, was contradicted by his theory of the metabolic rift.
Capitalism | Online Blog | USA
Why Record Numbers of Workers are Quitting and Striking
Millions of Americans are quitting their jobs – because they have had enough. The resignations ought to be viewed hand in hand with another powerful current: a growing willingness by unionized workers to go on strike.
Will We Take the Path to a Livable Future or Will Rich Corporations Trash the Planet?
The COP26 global climate summit marks a critical juncture in the struggle to avoid climate catastrophe. Prof Chomsky talks on the roots of our current dire predicament and on humanity’s prospects for emerging from this crisis into a livable future.
Capitalism | Culture | Economy | Online Blog
‘You Only Get What You’re Organized to Take’ — Lessons from the National Union of the Homeless
As the pandemic continues to devastate America’s poorest, coalitions of unhoused people are finding inspiration in the powerful history of homeless organizing.