Enver Motala is an associate of the Centre for Education Rights and Transformation (CERT) at the University of Johannesburg and of the Centre for Integrated Post-School Education and Training at the Nelson Mandela University.
A new bill in Canada takes aim at wage-fixing and no-poaching agreements among major corporations. But significant loopholes and objections from business groups underscore how even modest labor legislation faces staunch resistance from capital.
Journalist Anand Gopal on Islamism, ISIS, and the role of the United States in Iraqi politics today.
Álvaro Uribe came to power in Colombia shortly after 9/11 and declared his own war on terrorism with US support.
Ranking the most consequential libs for war of the early 21st century.
Our nation’s two most prestigious newspapers, the New York Times and the Washington Post, on the run-up to war.
When and where organized labor’s been on the move.
In the center of Baghdad is a high-rise hotel, resembling a modernist version of the towers of ancient Babylon. Its transnational history reveals a different Tower of Babel altogether.
The House and Senate are fighting over the Pentagon budget — not because anyone objects to an obscene level of military spending but because it’s become yet another a proxy for the culture war. The Left should oppose the budget for the right reasons.
Crunching the numbers on the class war.
The Iraq War began with a failed attack on Saddam, but it didn’t end with his execution.
We sat down with Noam Chomsky to talk about the march to the war in Iraq and its awful consequences.
How the American political class brought a disaster to the Middle East.
In the immediate aftermath of the Iraq invasion, the US and British governments tried to launch a radical experiment in oil privatization. Iraqi trade unions spearheaded a brave campaign to thwart their plans.
Iraq’s Communist movement has survived nine decades filled with tragedy and fleeting success. Can it shape the new Iraq?
Years before Dubya, President Clinton tried to get the public on board for military escalation with Iraq.
The impact of UN sanctions on Iraq has been difficult to quantify — and that’s part of the problem.
