Tag: Working class

  • Multipolarity and BRICS Once More

    Multipolarity and BRICS Once More

    The debates over “multipolarity” and the significance of an allegedly multipolar BRICS grouping continue. In an opinion piece in People’s Voice (“Multipolarity, BRICS+ and the struggle for peace, cooperation, and socialism today,” June 16-30, 2024) writer Garrett Halas mounts an earnest defense of multipolarity and the BRICS+ “as a positive step towards socialism.” Halas joins […]

  • A Reading List for the Delhi Police from Tricontinental Research Services

    A Reading List for the Delhi Police from Tricontinental Research Services

    On 3 October, the homes and offices of over one hundred journalists and researchers across India were raided by the Delhi Police, which is under the jurisdiction of the country’s Ministry of Home Affairs. During this ‘act of sheer harassment and intimidation’, as the Committee to Protect Journalists called it, the Delhi Police raided and […]

  • Can Poorer Nations Break the Cycle of Dependency That Has Inflicted Grief for a Hundred Years?

    Can Poorer Nations Break the Cycle of Dependency That Has Inflicted Grief for a Hundred Years?

    In late July, I visited two settlements of the Landless Rural Workers (MST) on the outskirts of São Paulo (Brazil). Both settlements are named for brave women, the Brazilian lawmaker Marielle Franco – who was assassinated in 2018 – and Irmã Alberta – an Italian Catholic nun who died in 2018. The lands where the […]

  • Promethean City Builders vs Finance Capital Malthusians

    Promethean City Builders vs Finance Capital Malthusians

    Part I Who are Some Western Supporters of Multipolarists? Orientation Most of us realize there is a major tectonic shift in the world economy from West to East. The multipolar nations are basing their economies on investing in developing the productive forces of science and technology and to better human life. The Belt and Road […]

  • Eight Contradictions of the Imperialist “Rules-Based Order”

    Eight Contradictions of the Imperialist “Rules-Based Order”

    Boris Mikhailov (Ukraine SSR), Red, 1968–1975. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has now moved the Doomsday Clock to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has been to the symbolic time of the annihilation of humanity and the Earth since 1947. This is alarming, which is why leaders in the Global South have been […]

  • How to Rebuild the Left

    One might as well state the matter clearly: given the realities of global warming, rampant environmental destruction, escalating imperialistic clashes, and a crisis-prone global economy, there is no hope for the world unless an international left can be resurrected. A left at least as powerful as the one that created social democracy in the wake […]

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