Squeezed between Iran and the US: the future of the protests in the Middle East
The US and Iran teetered on the brink of war as Iranian missiles hit the American bases in Iraq in response to the killing of the Quds Corps commander Qasem Soleimani. In this interview, Marxist scholar Jakob Rigi discusses these events in the context of the Iranian domestic politics and the social tensions in the […]
The left group GUE/NGL will not split: MEP Helmut Scholz on elections in the EU and Ukraine
In previous materials we’ve already generally informed our readers about how the European Parliament functions and which parliamentary groups are represented in it. In our interview with you we whould like first of all to focus on the radical left in the European Parliament and their group GUE/NGL. What do the radical left parties of […]
Democracy or the power of experts? A Review on “The New Authoritarianism” by Salvatore Babones
This provocative book is full of straightforward critical statements and fresh ideas, supported by logical argument and historical excursus. Those, who seek a sharp analysis and a clear diagnosis of the contemporary state of American democracy, will find those answers in this thrilling read. Adversely, those, who prefer a more global intellectual exercise, will find […]
1917—2017
Редакторська передмова Сьогодні світ відзначає великий ювілей: рівно сто років тому відбулося збройне повстання в Петрограді, за результатами якого владу взяла партія більшовиків, розпочавши процес, що трактувався ними як соціалістична революція. Навіть сто років потому багато питань, що стосуються цієї події, викликають гостру полеміку. Чим була Жовтнева революція як подія? Яка природа того суспільства, що утворилося внаслідок її розвитку? Наскільки актуальний її спадок для […]
New technology and global inequality
This article was written as part of the work of the economic department of Center for Social and Labor Research. New opportunities, old inequalities Factories without workers, bullet trains and subways without drivers, robot cleaners and smart houses, multifunctional gadgets and 3D printers, electronic marketing, freelancing and sharing economy[i]. Today’s world is getting closer to […]
Turkish democracy won
Aliona Lyasheva, Viktoriia Muliavka Evening, 15th of July Shit hit the fan around 9 pm while we were sitting in one of the bars in Istiklal. With our Turkish friend, Vedat, we were discussing our Erasmus experiences or some other meaningless things. Difficult to remember now. We had an amazing view on the main Istanbul street […]
“We were not trying to ‘hide’ Marxism”: interview with Bhaskar Sunkara, editor of the Jacobin magazine
Jacobin is one of the most successful radical left-wing publications in the contemporary world and, for sure, the most successful one in the United States. Though the project was only started in September 2010, their online audience has reached 700 000 visitors a month for the online version and 15 000 subscribers of the printed […]
Decades of investment in education have not improved social mobility
John Goldthorpe It is widely believed in political circles, and among the commentariat, that in Britain today social mobility is in decline. This is not, in fact, the case, as a new research programme led by Professor Erzsébet Bukodi of the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at Oxford University shows. But the preoccupation with […]
Forget shorter showers: why personal change does not equal political change
Derrick Jensen is the author of Thought to Exist in the Wild, Songs of the Dead, Endgame, Dreams, and other books. In 2008, he was named one of Utne Reader’s “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.” His Orioncolumn is called “Upping the Stakes.” Would any sane PERSON think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or […]
Nietzsche and Christ
23 November 2008Trinity College Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market-place, and cried incessantly: ‘I seek God! I seek God… Whither is God?’, he cried. ‘I will tell you. We have killed him – you and I. All of us are his murderers… God is […]
