Western Marxism and the world crisis
A section from Diego Rivera’s “Man, Controller of the Universe,” depicting Leon Trotsky, Friedrich Engels, and Karl Marx, in the Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City. Image from Wikimedia Commons.…
Henry Heller
Poverty in Britain: From feudalism to neoliberal capitalism
“The Payment of the Tithes (The tax-collector),” by Pieter Breughel the Younger, between 1617 and 1622. Image courtesy Bonhams/Wikimedia Commons. Scoundrels and Shirkers: Capitalism and Poverty in Britain Jim Silver…
The rise of global class struggle
Intersyndicale parading during a demonstration for the defense of public services, Dijon, France, May 22, 2018. Photo by Haldu/Wikimedia Commons. After years of passivity in the face of upper class…
Liberalism and the spectre of inverted totalitarianism
Pablo Picasso, “Massacre in Korea,” 1951. The painting was considered to be a condemnation of US intervention in the Korean War. Image courtesy Musée Picasso/Wikimedia Commons. The conflict now raging…
The rules of America versus global civilization
A sea of containers at the Yangshan Port, a deep water port located in Hangzhou Bay south of Shanghai. The port is part of the Maritime Silk Road. Photo from…
The rise of China and the decline of the West
Photo by David Dennis/Flickr China’s place on the world stage advances year by year. It is arguably already the world’s largest economy. Its Belt and Road Initiative and its other…
The Ukraine conflict as a world war
The war in Ukraine has almost reached its first anniversary. When it will end is unclear. Indeed, it has actually been going on since 2014 with the overthrow of the…
Protesting the Capitalist University
Photo from UMFA.ca The University of Manitoba is on strike. Since 1st November, more than 1,200 faculty members took to the picket line to protest the lack of funding for…
Seeds of ISIS terror sown by Western hegemony
Photo by Thierry Ehrmann Syria is a global powder keg. Putin’s intervention in Syria in September led to ISIS blowing up a Russian airliner over the Sinai in November, killing…