Kiev’s Theme Park Revolution
The images of genuine popular self-determination in the streets of Kiev are empty ones.
20417 Article(s) by: T Rivers
T Rivers is a pseudonymous journalist who covers East and Central Africa.
Chicken Littles of the Right
If the Right wants to cry about class warfare, we should give them something to cry about.
Stalinism in Three Easy Payments
What better way to reform capitalism’s losers than to force them to pay to play?
White Collar Blues: An Interview with Nikil Saval
Even at a time of low pay and degraded working conditions, meritocratic notions surrounding white collar work are hard to dispel.
DIE LINKE’s Road to Power: An Interview with Bernd Riexinger
Bernd Riexinger, co-chair of Germany’s Left Party, talks about socialist strategy in the twenty-first century.
Only As Good As the Movement
Individual activists — no matter how talented — must depend on the movement they represent.
The Rise of the Voluntariat
Like unpaid interns, the “voluntariat” creates profits without being compensated, but out of a sense of altruism.
Invisible Sex Workers
Sex workers are somehow invisible when it comes to discerning the truth about their work. Yet clients, police, and others have no trouble finding them to pay, arrest, extort, rob, beat, or rape.
Adjusting to Apocalypse
Societies are going to adjust to climate change in some way — it’s up to us to push that transformation in a progressive direction.
Cuts and Scabs
A doctors’ strike could help save the United Kingdom’s National Health Service.
The Many Faces of the Indian Left
In India, even as prominent left parties falter, radicalism persists.
A Letter to New York City’s School Teachers
New York teachers should vote no on the proposed union contract — for love and for money.
Historical Materialism at Sixteen: An Interview with Peter D. Thomas
The longstanding Marxist conference is this weekend in Toronto.
Clarence Thomas’s Counterrevolution
Clarence Thomas has fused elements of black nationalism and a bleak view of black history with a steadfast Constitutional originalism.
A Challenge to Cuomo
“My name is Brian Jones, and I am seeking the Green Party’s nomination for Lieutenant Governor of the state of New York.”
American Philanthropy and its Discontents
Philanthropy thrills to begging and tolerates activism, but cannot abide a demand from those it wants to save.
How to Thank a Teacher
This week, thank a New York City teacher — by urging them to vote “no” on the United Federation of Teachers proposed contract.
Twenty Years of Defeat
Today, South Africans will likely reelect Jacob Zuma and his African National Congress. But the party of Nelson Mandela is losing ground.
Against Austerity
Austerity won’t bring us out of the crisis, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t rational for elites.