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  • Claustropolis: 1984

    “Claustropolis: 1984” is excerpted from a forthcoming novel. In Bhopal, I could lie low. In Bhopal, there would be instructions for me. Because I had been told not to take the express, I traveled on a local, in an unreserved bogie. The whiskey was Director’s Special, a parting gift from Gupta’s people. I didn’t even…

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  • To Struggle!: A Review of Marcello Musto’s ‘The Last Years of Karl Marx’

    by Mauricio Betancourt (Feb 01, 2024) Topics: History  Marxism Places: Global Mauricio Betancourt is an assistant professor of Environmental Studies at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia. Marcello Musto, The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography, translated by Patrick Camiller (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020), 208 pages, $25, paperback. The Last Years of Karl Marx, the enhanced English translation of…

  • Larry Summers on What Went Wrong on Campus

    Yascha Mounk and Larry Summers also discuss the promise and perils of artificial intelligence. FEB 24, 2024 Larry Summers is an economist, the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School, and a member of the board of directors of OpenAI. Summers is the former…

  • The Cuban revolution differed from the Stalinist regimes (How the Workers’ Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution reviewed in ‘Counterfire’)

    Filed: Cuban Revolution  Reviews How the Workers’ Parliaments Saved the Cuban Revolution:Reviving Socialism after the Collapse of the Soviet UnionBy Pedro Ross$27 / 288 pages / 978-1-58367-9784 Reviewed by Orlando Hill for Counterfire Pedro Ross is a retired General Secretary of the Cuban Workers’ Unions (CTC- Central de Trabajadores de Cuba), Cuba’s TUC. Most importantly, he was actively involved in the…

  • Social Media against Sectarianism

    In crisis-torn Lebanon, social media collective Megaphone is building an alternative to the political establishment Lebanon has long been known for its comparatively liberal approach to press and media freedom, which allowed a flourishing print industry to serve as a hub for writers and journalists from across West Asia and North Africa. In recent years,…

  • Seven reasons not to leave Lenin to our enemies

    Originally published: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung  on January 21, 2024 by Michael Brie (more by Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung)  |  (Posted Mar 12, 2024) Ideology, Philosophy, Revolutions, SocialismEurope, Russia, Soviet Union (USSR)NewswireLenin  … even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious. – Walter Benjamin The Left has tossed Lenin’s corpse to the…

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