Cuba is caricatured by the Right as a totalitarian hellhole. But its response to the coronavirus pandemic — from sending doctors to other countries to pioneering anti-viral treatments to converting factories into mask-making machines — is putting other countries, even rich countries, to shame.
Africa’s massive new free trade deal promises to unify over a billion people and lift the continent out of poverty. But the case of Ethiopia shows that it will instead spark a continental race to the bottom and shut workers out from economic policy.
Apologists for US empire like Max Boot insist that American victory was possible in the Vietnam War. It wasn’t. But as long as the war machine needs justification for new interventions — today, in countries like Venezuela and Iran — writers like Boot will have an audience for their imperialist fantasies.
The legendary nonviolence theorist Gene Sharp wasn’t just a lonely scholar studying how political change happens. He was a Cold War defense intellectual whose ideas left a profound imprint on the way America wields power in the world.
The United States' dependence on the labor of immigrants is exactly what confirms their rights. And that's the last thing the Donald Trumps of the world want to confront.
Since Raúl Castro assumed power in 2006 promising reforms, Cuban politics has seen the slow emergence of new tendencies and debates. The prospects for the country's left, however, remain uncertain.
Marx is often remembered as a political economist or philosopher. But he made his mark as a journalist.
Blaming all of humanity for climate change lets capitalism off the hook.
Obama’s “Promise Zones” anti-poverty program is a Trojan horse for deregulation.
Longtime leftist 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.
Bangladeshi authorities have jailed the internationally renowned photographer Shahidul Alam — the latest move by the nation's elites to repress those who speak up for social justice and democratic rights.
Led by the autocrat Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Turkey’s government has responded to the coronavirus crisis as you would expect: with an iron fist. But the mainstream opposition isn’t proposing a democratic, egalitarian alternative. Workers will have to step in to fill the void.
The Constitution has strangled American democracy for long enough. We need a constituent assembly.
In 1952, W. E. B. Du Bois began teaching at the Jefferson School of Social Science, an institution of the Communist Party devoted to worker education. The school gave him the opportunity to combine Marxist theory with pan-Africanism and support global anti-racist and anti-colonial struggles.
Protests are growing in Ecuador, where radicals must contend with both the Right and Rafael Correa.
Churchill was no hero — he was a vile racist fanatical about violence and fiercely supportive of imperialism.
Mass protests kicked off in Iran last month over an increase in fuel prices, resulting in a government crackdown in which over 7,000 protesters were arrested and 200 killed. An Iranian trade unionist explains what these protests have looked like on the ground and why leftists should support them.
Since taking power, Syriza hasn’t accepted what’s been imposed, but instead fought to create a new political landscape.
The dismantling of autoworker gains was a class project, not the inevitable result of globalization.
Outrage at US complicity in the war on Gaza has pushed many Americans to think about international politics for the first time. The Left should seize this moment to push its vision of how the global order should run.