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.
Capital in the Twenty-First Century is a long book, and you just don’t have time in your busy schedule to finish it and formulate a materialist critique. We’ve got you covered.
By 2036, we’ll move Labor Day to May 1. Maybe Christmas, as well, but these things take time.
Like the abolitionists, Chris Hayes argues, climate activists must mount “a movement of dispossession.”
Battles against today’s ruling class might look back to the movements of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries for inspiration.
Nick Turse’s otherwise exhaustive account of the atrocities committed in Vietnam gives short shrift to the movement that made those crimes known.
Public employees: compelled to serve the state, yet unentitled to its protections.
Treating Marx’s original manuscripts like scripture does them a great disservice.
The Indian National Congress won’t be going anywhere — but it’s never been a force for social change.
It’s not just that Thomas Piketty may be right. He’s also handsome.
A former student of Paul de Man reflects on her mentor’s impenetrable ideas and duplicitous life.
Campaigns against Rabab Abdulhadi and other activists are calls for state-sponsored political harassment.
The next time someone tells you the Nazis were anti-capitalist, show them this.
An Occupy Wall Street activist was assaulted by a police officer. She faces seven years in prison for it.
On the Hollywood blacklist and Dalton Trumbo’s marginal tax rate.
Gabriel García Márquez on Fidel Castro, the Soviet Union, and creating “a government which would make the poor happy.”
Fred Ho’s dedication to challenging capitalism$’s logic through art only grew stronger in his final days.
The nature of a product is irrelevant to how we should theorize, legislate, or organize the labor involved in producing it.
The first time Clarence Thomas went to DC, it was to protest the Vietnam War.
Elites tell us the future is inevitably bright; left curmudgeons insist it’s inevitably gloomy. We don’t win from playing this game.
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis recounts the creation of her union’s CORE caucus.