Samir Amin (1931–2018) was director of the Third World Forum in Dakar, Senegal, and the author of many books. Firoze Manji is the founder and former editor of Pambazuka News and Pambazuka Press. He set up Daraja Press and is …
Neoliberal Capitalism at a Dead End, by Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik
Harry Magdoff’s The Age of Imperialism is a classic work that shows how postwar political decolonization does not negate the phenomenon of imperialism. The book has two distinct aspects. On the one hand, it follows in V. I. Lenin’s footsteps …
Arundhati Roy on India’s Elections: “A Mockery of What Democracy Is Supposed to Be”, By Samuel Earle
The author and activist talks to The New Republic about Narendra Modi, the decimation of India’s opposition, and the way forward.
“In India,” Arundhati Roy wrote in 2002, “if you are a butcher or a genocidist who happens to be …
Politicized Religion: Old and Global, by Adel Samara, Occupied Palestine
Key words: Political Islam (PI), Politicized Religion (PR), Zionist Ashkenazi Regime (ZAR), Counter-Revolution (CR)
One of the biggest delusions, largely circulated and recently used terms, is Political Islam (PI) as a term targeting one religion by itself in an era …
Thinking Clearly about the White Working Class, by Michael D. Yates
Looking at the U.S. White Working Class Historically by David Gilbert.
David Gilbert is a worthy heir to Antonio Gramsci. Like the Sardinian radical, he has kept abreast, from a prison cell, of world events and written about them with …
It is Zionism that We are Interested in, not Anti-Semitism, by Adel Samara
Since a century ago, Zionism and the western ruling classes, most of western intellectualism and academia engaged the world in the pretense that any position against Zionism is anti- Semitism as well, while in fact it is a cover to …
John Smith on imperialism: Dispossessed workers, farmers, small producers still await their day of liberationby, John Smith and Farooque Chowdhury
Today, it is impossible to ignore the question of imperialism in any discussion concerning people as imperialism is distorting and destroying all aspects and areas of life. Ignoring the question of imperialism is synonymous to betrayal of people’s cause. John
…Brief reading of EU Foreign Relations Counsel’s Report on Syria (2017)[1], by Adel Samara
Preliminary Note: I choose to limit my response to this report according to date of publication in 2017 regardless of many developments which followed that date especially the weakened role of this enemy, the EU, in world politics and especially
…Mayday 2019 Statement: Dare to struggle, dare to win!
Proletarians of all countries, unite!
Dare to struggle, dare to win!
On this First of May the Marxist-Leninist-Maoist Parties and Organizations from allover the world salute our class, the international proletariat and the oppressed Peoples and Nations, who in the …
Notes on Max Ajl’s: Auto-centered development and indigenous technics: Slaheddine el-Amami and Tunisian delinking[1], by Adel Samara
Development is a very controversial issue in terms of terminology, theorization, agent and practice. Based on this argument, one might recallSocialism in one Country (SIOC) to apply this question or critique on the issue of development or even on cooperation.…