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Argentina goes back to the IMF. Neo-liberalism, crisis and protest.
For six months, Argentina has been confronted with a new economic and social crisis on a massive scale. In the context the devaluation of local currency, rising inflation, and a deep recession, Mauricio Macri’s administration struck an agreement with the IMF, marking a major shift in the country’s future. The agreements slash public spending and […]
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The neoliberal Upside Down
When the Great Financial Crisis hit in 2008, there was a gasp of guilty excitement on the left at the sudden re-emergence of the conditions for radical social change, after 30 years of what has become known even by mainstream economists as ‘neoliberalism’: an obsession with privatisation and financialisation that has made the world more […]
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Meeting Comrade Pasang, Nepal’s Vice President: Dispatch by a far-flung Bolivarian
How can politics be a way of pursuing the same goals once pursued in war? And through what form of politics? The career of Pasang, from revolutionary military commander to Vice President of Nepal, raises a host of questions about the transition from war to politics and the conditions of victory in each sphere.
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Toward Racial Justice and a Third Reconstruction
This piece provides an overview of the bitterly polarized and consequential political moment in which the United States, along with many other countries, is embroiled in. It also suggests a strategic approach for U.S. progressives and the left to maximize our contribution to defeating the Trump and the far right, and advancing toward racial and […]
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Living our lives inside a tragedy the size of the planet November 17, 2018
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Argentina goes back to the IMF. Neo-liberalism, crisis and protest. November 17, 2018
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Prisoner prophet: revisiting George Jackson’s analysis of systemic fascism November 17, 2018
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Fascists in training: Ukraine’s nationalist youth camps November 17, 2018
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The neoliberal Upside Down November 16, 2018
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Edinburgh tells fascist Bannon to go back home November 16, 2018
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California’s wildfire and climate change warnings are still too conservative November 16, 2018
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When media say ‘working class,’ they don’t necessarily mean workers—but they do mean White November 16, 2018
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Meeting Comrade Pasang, Nepal’s Vice President: Dispatch by a far-flung Bolivarian November 15, 2018
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Toward Racial Justice and a Third Reconstruction November 15, 2018
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Magic imperialism and the great American wall November 15, 2018
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Et tu, RT? Amplifying Western disinformation on Rwanda November 15, 2018
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Reclaiming radical creativity November 14, 2018
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#76 – “One-dimensional man” November 14, 2018
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Long read: the neoliberal order is dying. Time to wake up November 14, 2018
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Thirteen theses of marxism-feminism November 13, 2018
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Capitalism is killing patients…and their physicians November 13, 2018
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MPN on the ground: global migrants converge on Mexico City to assist Central American migrant caravan November 13, 2018
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Jorit, artist behind Che Guevara, Ahed Tamimi mural: ‘graffiti is the voice of protest’ November 12, 2018
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Oxford-style debate: Ethno-nationalism and systemic crisis are symptoms of the present November 12, 2018
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Norman Geras falls foul of Reading University’s ‘prevent’ anti-terrorism strategy. November 12, 2018
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“Hell No!’—Stokely Carmichael twenty years on November 11, 2018
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A political seesaw November 11, 2018
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You only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well November 11, 2018