Africa’s Place in the Radical Imagination
Our internationalist concerns for Africa must necessarily transcend the flattened talking points to which the continent is frequently reduced in our discourses.
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Howard Zinn’s Life on the Frontlines
Howard Zinn's life was a model for left-wing intellectuals to both produce and take action to transform the world.
The Left Is Already Winning the 2020 Presidential Race
Democrats are embracing bold progressive policies—and setting the terms of the debate—for the first time in 40 years.
Here’s how neoliberal economists wreak havoc on the global poor while protecting the financial elite
Source: Alternet
On December 1, Mexico will have a new president—Andrés Manuel López Obrador. He will take over the presidency from the lackluster Enrique Peña Nieto, whose administration is marinated in corruption. Peña Nieto’s legal office has already asked the Supreme Court to shield his officials from prosecution for corruption. The elite will protect itself. López Obrador will not be able to properly exorcize the corrupt from the Mexican state, let alone from Mexican society. Corrupt weeds grow on the soil of capitalism, the loam of profit and greed as well as of rents from government contracts.
The Earth is in a death spiral. It will take radical action to save us
Climate breakdown could be rapid and unpredictable. We can no longer tinker around the edges and hope minor changes will avert collapse.
Eight Thinkers on the Left Explain What the Midterm Results Mean for Progressives
"The growth of the hard right is real. The threat of fascism is real. Climate collapse is real. These all require a qualitative transformation in our political expectations and demands." - Keeanga-Yahmatta Taylor