With an eye on Zohran Mamdani’s New York mayoral vote on Tuesday, Eric Ross says reviving U.S. socialism also requires recovering its history from the Red Scare and Cold War.
NYC Election: Socialism or Barbarism
Category: Income Inequality
Corporate Democrats Paved the Way for Trump
Democrats may be denouncing the current assaults on social programs, writes Norman Solomon. But three decades ago Bill Clinton’s embrace of the private sector began clearing the path for Trump’s wrecking crew.
WATCH: Chris Smalls — From Amazon to Gaza
From organizing an Amazon.com shop to be being arrested on an aid ship bound for Gaza, Chris Smalls has become a dynamic political figure speaking for a new generation of American dissidence.
Patrick Lawrence: Sun Valley vs. Queensbridge
In New York City, the battle has been joined between Democratic Party elites and the voters they are increasingly committed to suppressing, between money and democratic process, between power and the forces for change.
NATO: The Most Dangerous Organization
By the time of its out-of-theater intervention in Afghanistan, it became clear that NATO now had the ability and permission to operate as the policeman of the U.S.-led order.
Vijay Prashad: Patents of a Parasitical North
Global South countries are trapped in Global North-dominated patents and licensing fees that are stripping them of wealth and stunting their development.
Renewing a Desecrated Declaration of Independence
If America is to be what the Revolution envisioned on July 4, 1776, a nation governed by laws, then the American people must speak out and defend that vision, writes Dennis Kucinich.
The Billionaire Frenzy Over Zohran Mamdani
Hell hath no fury like corporate power scorned, writes Norman Solomon of the general-election battle over the next mayor of New York City.
Vijay Prashad: Beyond ‘Green Capitalism’
The term “Anthropocene” implies that humans — as an undifferentiated whole — have created the ecological crisis. This downplays the role of the capitalist system and its class and national divides.
Vijay Prashad: Meanwhile, 100s of Millions of People Die of Hunger
Enough food is produced to meet the needs of 11 billion people. Why do so many of the 8 billion people on the planet go hungry?