Europe’s COVID-19 Pandemic Spirals Out of Control
2.5 lakh new cases of COVID-19 are found each day in Europe. The inability of governments in Europe, as in America, to act decisively to stop the pandemic reflects the bankruptcy of capitalism.
Walter Rodney: Marxist, Pan-African, Organic Intellectual
On the socialist revolutionary Walter Rodney’s many accomplishments and intellectual prowess.
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Marxism and Intersectionality
Review of Ashley Bohrer’s book, “Marxism and Intersectionality: Race, Gender, Class and Sexuality under Contemporary Capitalism”.
How to Rebuild from the Disaster of Neoliberalism
Socialist writer and activist Naomi Klein discusses her work from No Logo to On Fire, connecting the fight against climate change to the fight for good jobs, and how COVID-19 is showing the utter failure of the neoliberal model.
Industrial Food Production and the Pandemic
Covid-19 may become unstoppable. But not so the next pestilence. For that, we need to revamp our food production system now.
Why the Youth Should Engage with Gandhi
In a world where violence is sanctified and normalised, anyone striving for collective redemption should look to Gandhi.
Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean. Part Three: The Heat of 3.6 Billion Atom Bombs
Continuing Ian Angus’s examination of the ‘deadly trio’ of CO2-driven assaults on ocean life. Part three: ocean warming and permanent heatwaves.
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The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It
One of the founding myths of the contemporary Western world is that fascism was defeated in WWII by liberal democracies, and particularly by the United States. The material record suggests, however, a shockingly different reality.
Toward Delinking: An Alternative Chinese Path Amid the New Cold War
The escalation of the New Cold War offers an opportunity to rethink China’s dependence on an export-orientated economy and speedy financialization.
National Education Policy 2020: A Fall into the Abyss of Neo-colonization
In the new NEP, there has been a quantum leap towards neo-colonization of Indian education via privatization to further corporatization of education.