The Olympics Is a Racket
The world’s top athletes coming together in a spirit of friendly competition is a beautiful vision. But the Olympics have become a machine for the ruthless extraction of profit at the expense of working-class people.
How Not to Unite a Class: a Response to DSA’s Class Unity Caucus
A response to a debate among socialist activists about the relationship between oppression and class and why getting the answer right is essential to forging a united class struggle.
Marx on Gender and the Family: A Summary
Even though Marx did not write a great deal on gender, and did not develop a systematic theory of gender and the family, it was, for him, an essential category for understanding the division of labor, production, and society in general.
Amílcar Cabral: Liberator, Theorist, and Educator
Cabral, the leader of Guinea Bissau’s freedom struggle, was murdered by fascist Portuguese assassins on January 20, 1973. He had become a widely influential theorist of decolonization and non-deterministic, creatively applied re-Africanization.
Billionaire Dynasties: Vampires on Humanity
The first decades of the 21st century have been a gilded age for the world’s super-rich. While the mass of humanity has struggled through successive economic crises, accelerating environmental breakdown and now a devastating global pandemic, billionaire wealth has risen to dizzying heights.
No Climate Future Without System Change
The climate movement can challenge the capitalist system that threatens to destroy the conditions for life and civilisation on this planet only in international cooperation with the workers’ struggle, the women’s struggle, the fight against racism, and other movements.
Richard Lewontin: the Dialectical Biologist (1929-2021)
Although Richard Lewontin is no longer with us, in another sense he shall continue to live on. Through his works, Lewontin will continue to inspire and educate a new generation of scientists and of revolutionaries.
Keeping Poor Countries Poor: The Absurdity of Comparative Advantage
One of the worst economic theories that has been forced upon poor countries is known as comparative advantage. This says that each country should specialise in what it can make, grow or do ‘best’. This theory is nothing but propaganda, to favour the developed countries.
The Contours of Capitalism in China
China is the world’s second-largest economy and the world’s main industrial producer and exporter. How can we characterize the economic and social transformations that have marked China’s development over the past four decades?
Is AltE Truly the Best Solution to Climate Catastrophe?
There is a widespread belief that supporting “alternative energy” (AltE) allows everyone on Earth to pursue a lifestyle of endless consumerism. It avoids the real problem, which is capitalism’s uncontrollable drive for economic growth.