Building Global Labor Solidarity Today: Learning from the KMU of the Philippines
New labor movements are currently emerging across the Global South. This is happening in countries as disparate as China, Egypt, and Iran. New developments are taking place within labor movements in...
View ArticlePolemos and Paideia: On the Weaponization of the School in Late Capitalism
A popular refrain in the politics of American education, often buttressed by a steady stream of studies, contends that ‘we are falling behind’ students from other countries. Sometimes this decline is...
View ArticleIsrael, You Rascals
Mark Steel started doing stand-up in 1982 in England, around the circuit of bizarre gigs, going on after jugglers and escapologists and people that banged nails into their ear. Then came the Comedy...
View ArticleToward An Eco-Egalitarian University
This article argues for a political transformation and reorganization of the university so that it is capable of challenging the "hierarchy of power in a neoliberal society." Faculty democracy,...
View ArticleGlobal Capitalism, Immigrant Labor, and the Struggle for Justice
Around the world borders are militarized, states are stepping up repressive anti-immigrant controls, and native publics are turning immigrants into scapegoats for the spiraling crisis of global...
View ArticleRuling the Void
Over the past few decades, political parties in the Western world have moved to the center-right of the political spectrum. In the process, there is a wider gulf between the policies favored by the...
View ArticleMining in Peru: Indigenous and Peasant Communities vs. The State and Mining...
The Peruvian economy depends for its growth on the export of natural resources and investment in the mining and hydrocarbon sectors. Peruvian governments and mining corporations have confronted...
View ArticleSex Work and Class
Prostitution scandals stigmatize workers for their entire lives, but the politician involved is marred for only one news cycle. “White knight” feminists shame women for sexually catering to the...
View ArticleBeauty Pageants, FIU, and "Worlds Ahead": An Open Letter to FIU President...
In response to FIU's decision to rent space to Donald Trump's Miss Universe Beauty pageant, it is argued that FIU has a responsibility toward its female and male students to work for a less sexist...
View ArticleCzechs Look Back on 1989, a Revolution Betrayed: A Reflection on the...
Twenty-five years ago today the Velvet Revolution kicked off in what was then Czechoslovakia to bring an end to the one-party government of the Communist Party. This exclusive translation of a feature...
View ArticleThe Argentine Dilemma: “Vulture Funds” and the Risks Posed to Developing...
Post-crisis Argentina is a case study of crisis management through debt restructuring. This article examines how Argentina negotiated the external debt in the wake of the sovereign default in December...
View ArticleRevolutionaries in Space? A Counter-Review of Interstellar
Should the radical Left interpret the Nolans' Interstellar as a tribute to (neo)liberal expansionism or should we view it as a cautionary tale about a future that is just around the corner, which...
View ArticleSocial Movement Unionism or Social Justice Unionism? Disentangling...
After the election of John Sweeney as President of the AFL-CIO in October 1995, activists and supportive intellectuals in the United States began thinking about how to revitalize the almost moribund...
View ArticleIs the Corporate Elite Fractured, or is there Continuing Corporate Dominance?...
This article compares two recent analyses of continuity and change in the American power structure since 1900, with a main focus on the years after World War II. The first analysis asserts that the...
View ArticleBallots for Equality: An Approach to the Radical Tradition in U.S. Electoral...
Posing radical challenges to structural inequality is the defining quality of the Left. What role electoral politics might play in such processes is a dilemma of radical politics, the contours of...
View ArticleNeglected Masterpieces of Cinema
This article will acquaint you with ten of the more important leftwing films I have reviewed over the past sixteen years as a member of New York Film Critics Online. You will not see listed familiar...
View ArticleAutomatons, Robots, and Capitalism in a Very Wrong Twenty-First Century: A...
Contrary to prevailing opinions, Neill Blomkamp’s recent feature film Chappie is not a movie about robots or artificial intelligence. It is not Robocop. It is not Short Circuit. It is also not...
View ArticleUtopia, A Must: A Review Essay on Benjamin Kunkel’s Utopia or Bust
Utopia or Bust, more than many foundational alternatives, forcefully though with non-sectarian wisdom, re-implants the notion of utopia to the front-of-the-line of Left theory (whether economic,...
View ArticleThe Bankruptcy of Liberalism and Social Democracy in the Neoliberal Age
The increasing similarity between the economic policies of center-left and center-right political parties has effectively diminished the legitimacy of governments in relationship to their citizenry in...
View Article400 Parts Per Million: An Eco-Political Music Video
400 ppm is an eco-political music video which encapsulates climate crisis and climate justice in three minutes flat. It is an intervention in popular political ecology/economy, aimed at those who are...
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