Peer to peer production as the altarnative to capitalism: a new communist horizont
Jacob Rigi The current crisis of capitalism has provoked protests, revolts and revolutions in major parts of the planet that include 3 billions of inhabitants. Even the mainstream Time Magazine made “The Protester” the person of the year. The caption on Time’s cover reads: From the Arab Spring To Athens, from Occupy Wall Street to […]
In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub
In Antoine de Saint Exupéry’s tale the Little Prince meets a businessman who accumulates stars with the sole purpose of being able to buy more stars. The Little Prince is perplexed. He owns only a flower, which he waters every day. Three volcanoes, which he cleans every week. “It is of some use to my […]
Resisting the Corporate University
Few forces are better positioned to fight the corporate university than graduate student workers. Graduate workers are on the front lines in the battle over the neoliberalization of higher education. As both students and workers, they’re doubly targeted: at the same time states and university administrations are raising tuition and fees, they’re cutting wages and […]
Literary Magazines for Socialists Funded by the CIA, Ranked
Patrick Iber In May of 1967, a former CIA officer named Tom Braden published a confession in the Saturday Evening Post under the headline, «I’m glad the CIA is ‘immoral.’». Braden confirmed what journalists had begun to uncover over the previous year or so: The CIA had been responsible for secretly financing a large number of “civil […]
Europe’s Lethal Fortress
Make no mistake — it’s European governments who are to blame for the deadly migrant crisis. Мy social media feeds are filled with dead children. Small bodies, washing up on the shores of a Mediterranean beach. Why are they washing up on the shores? European governments want us to blame traffickers. The advantage of blaming […]
Nuclear war: more real than it seems
Recently, the American magazine “Vox” has published a lengthy article about the military conflict possible scenarios between the US and Russia. Interviewing a number of both Russian and Western military experts, the publication came up to a very disappointing conclusion – the conflict node will keep on lasting, which means that at some point the […]
BON TON У СПЕКОТНОМУ КЛІМАТІ
Переклала Галина Герасим Пан Вольду — загублена людина. Він чотири рази тікав із Конго, а потім вертався. «Чому пан так боїться?» — спитав я. Стенає плечима, наче не знає. Але він знає, і я знаю. Масове переселення набрало розмаху в липні, першому місяці незалежності Конго. В аеропортах був страшний тлум. У газетах — багато фотографій […]
Twenty years after the wall fell
One of our editors, Volodymyr Ishchenko, interviewed by British newspaper “The Commune” What was the society that existed before 1989-91, and was its collapse the historic victory of capitalism over communism? There are a lot of rather boring discussions in the left-wing movement on “class nature” of USSR, whether it was “state capitalism”, a “degenerated […]
