Notes from the Editors, April 2023
April 1, 2023
There is no longer any question that the United States is waging a New Cold War, not simply on Russia (via NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine), but also on China,… READ MORE
Article Subjects and Geography: Democracy
The silly war
April 1, 2023
Government officials, police,�media rant against legalizing�pot. Opiates were handed out�by doctors like Halloween candy.�Now we live with those deaths. � Police say pot’ll cause accidents.�Yet alcohol is legal most places.�Hasn’t… READ MORE
Prioritizing U.S. Imperialism in Evaluating Latin America’s Pink Tide
March 1, 2023
Steve Ellner is a retired professor from the Universidad de Oriente, Venezuela, where he taught from 1977 to 2003, and is currently an Associate Managing Editor of Latin American Perspectives…. READ MORE
SCOTUS on a roll
February 1, 2023
Six of them, five weird men�sexist to the angry core�and one fundamentalist woman�are geared up to punish unto � death women who like sex,�women who’ve been raped,�women who can’t feed… READ MORE
End Ecocidal Capitalism or Exterminate Life on Planet Earth: A South African Contribution to Ecosocialist Strategy
July 1, 2022
Vishwas Satgar is an associate professor of international relations, editor of the Democratic Marxism book series, and principal investigator of the Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene project at Wits… READ MORE
The Bhima Koregaon Arrests and the Resistance in India
April 1, 2022
Saroj Giri teaches politics at the University of Delhi. It often happens: A murder takes place, an utterly foul one. But there is little outcry, no lasting sense of wrong… READ MORE
What 1930s Radicals Totally Knew: Scott Borchert on the Federal Writers’ Project
March 1, 2022
Scott Borchert is the author of Republic of Detours: How the New Deal Paid Broke Writers to Rediscover America (Macmillan, 2021). He previously worked in the publishing industry at Monthly… READ MORE
Confession
March 1, 2022
“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.” � —P. J. O’Rourke � � “Councilmember XYZ, you said�you’d support my… READ MORE
Anatomy of a Propaganda Campaign: Jeremy Corbyn’s Political Assassination
February 1, 2022
Florian Zollmann is a senior lecturer in journalism at Newcastle University. His latest book is Media, Propaganda and the Politics of Intervention. T. J. Coles is a postdoctoral researcher at… READ MORE
Red Current, Pink Tide: A Visit to El Maizal Commune in Venezuela
December 1, 2021
Chris Gilbert is a professor of political science at the Universidad Bolivariana de Venezuela, and the creator and co-host of the Marxist educational television program Escuela de Cuadros. � In… READ MORE