Cira Pascual Marquina Michael Lebowitz is a professor of political economy, researcher, and prolific writer. He is the author of Beyond Capital: Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class (1992), The Socialist Imperative: From Gotha to Now (2015), and the upcoming Between Capitalism and Community (2021). From 2006 to 2011, Lebowitz was Development Director in…
Category: SOCIALISM
Socialist Party’s Manifesto Promises Revolutionary Change in Zambia
Pavan Kulkarni The Socialist Party of Zambia released its election manifesto on June 18, Wednesday, promising universal education and healthcare, as well as the expansion of housing and sanitation facilities for the masses The presidential candidate of the Socialist Party (SP) of Zambia, Fred M’membe, released the party’s manifesto for the August 2021 elections at…
Socialism and Dignity: We Don’t Need Their Cops
Stephen Millies When the Pilgrims invaded the Wampanoag nation in the 1620s, they didn’t find any police or jails. Such cruelty wasn’t necessary. That’s because there were no rich or poor in Wampanoag society. A community of equals doesn’t need armed thugs with badges. Billionaires and banksters didn’t require protection since these parasites didn’t exist….
1976 Soweto Uprising: Youth Rebellion and the Burning Desire for Freedom
Pan Africanism Today Secretariat June 16 commemorates the Soweto Uprising, the gallant and courageous struggles of students against the imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction to further culturally subjugate Africans. June 16 commemorates the gallant and courageous struggles of students against the imposition of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction to further culturally…
Abahlali baseMjondolo: Building Food Sovereignty from Below
There was a serious problem of hunger in South Africa before the Covid-19 lockdown as a result of the long history of colonial dispossession, exploitation and abandonment, all of which continued under the rule of the ANC. There has also been a serious problem with the limited food support that is offered by the state…
Learning to Dream Together: A Conversation with Felipe Venegaz
Cira Pascual Marquina The Che Guevara Commune lies in the foothills of the Andes, in the township of Mesa Julia. The commune is nestled among lush hills and fields where small farmers cultivate coffee, cocoa, sugarcane, and bananas. The Che Guevara Commune has an aura of mystique surrounding it: a well-deserved reputation as a revolutionary…
Returning to Normality?
Atilio A. Boron The cruel pandemic that is plaguing humanity has aroused reactions of all kinds. A few see it as the cruel but fertile epiphany of a better and more fortunate world that will erupt as the inexorable climax of the widespread destruction unleashed by the coronavirus. If Edouard Bernstein believed that the mere…
Socialism and Dignity: Seniors Are Not Roadkill
Stephen Millies Workers picket at Safire Rehabilitation in Tonawanda, N.Y., where nearly half the staff contracted COVID-19. Why are so many people in nursing homes dying from the coronavirus? Over 28,000 people across the United States have died in nursing homes or other long-term care facilities. Nearly 35 percent of the COVID-19 deaths in the…
Communist Parties General Appeal for a Global Front to Address Health Emergency, Covid-19, Blockades and Imperialist Wars
GERMAN COMMUNIST PARTY (DKP) – COMMUNIST PARTY OF PEOPLES OF SPAIN (PCPE) – COMMUNIST PARTY OF VENEZUELA (PCV) GENERAL APPEAL REGARDING THE INTERNATIONAL HEALTH EMERGENCY Covid-19 WORKERS AND COMMUNIST PARTIES AGAINST BLOCKADES AND IMPERIALIST WARS The Communist and Workers’ parties that suscribe the present APPEAL declare: The serious international situation which has come from the…
New Order, or Euphemism to Deceive the People
Fernando Buen Abad The uprising, the work of prominent Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, is a powerful universal symbol of class struggle. Transforming the world is a slogan of the people. Semantic hegemony over the idea of the “new order” is in dispute (renewed). It is not the first time that an international “crisis” has produced…
Only Socialism Saves!
Carlos LuqueContemplating the painful global panorama as the pandemic advances seemingly unstoppable, claiming thousands of lives; unburied corpses on the street with no space in funeral homes or private cemeteries; forcing doctors to violate their oath and choose who will die; tens of thousands of workers idle, halting the senseless commercial frenzy that never appeared…
China’s Socialist Planning and COVID-19
Sara Flounders The global COVID-19 viral pandemic has exposed in the sharpest light the contradiction between a globalized world economy and a still existing but archaic capitalist system based on the private expropriation of wealth and resources. The relentless drive to reap a profit from every type of human interaction now stands exposed as the…
