I’m not calling it the Mexican Revolution, either. This group of communist, socialist, progressive turds has everyone involved who you’d imagine would be at a super-secret High Table meeting in a remote location last fall to plot a violent, nationwide opposition to Trump sometime during the next Summer of Love. Oh, hello. THEY’RE BACK And...
For the love of all that is holy, if you have not watched Andor, do not read this installment. It is one big hunk of spoiler and I would be so disappointed if you did that to yourself. The latest series set in the Star Wars galaxy, Andor, has made plenty of ripples and it’s...
There was a time when Robert Mugabe stood as the towering figure of African liberation. Raised fists, Pan-Africanist banners, and chants of self-rule marked Zimbabwe’s emergence from white settler colonialism. Mugabe, like many of his generation, represented the victory of the oppressed against imperial domination. But history, with its ruthless clarity, would later mark him...
While winning the Championship is an outstanding achievement, the WSL will be a huge step up for her side. Kang insists they are not aiming to simply survive in the top flight, but to thrive. And that is why at 9am, the morning after the promotion celebrations, her team – including manager Jocelyn Prêcheur, who...
Douglas Fraser Business and economy editor, Scotland Getty Images There is concern over the pace of transition for oil and gas workers into the renewables sector The Great Energy Transition is under way, and may come to define this era, but it’s not going smoothly. For the oil and gas sector, a further sign of...
Two stories captivate the Saturday papers: Reform UK’s performance in local elections around England and a BBC interview with the Duke of Sussex after he lost a legal challenge over his security in the UK. The Daily Mail splits its front page in half, headlining on the “Reform revolution” that it reports “sent shockwaves through...
Foreword by The Bad Side The assassination of Basel al-Araj in 2017—caught on camera and shared, proudly, by the official Twitter account of the IDF—silenced one of the most fearless, inventive voices on the Palestinian radical left. He was thirty-one. A writer, teacher, and militant opponent of the Zionist state, he’d been in hiding for...
Praise for Igniting a Revolution “Igniting a Revolutions eclectic collection of radical voices speaks truth to power with an audacity and freshness of perspective that are essential to transforming this perilously troubled post 9/11 world. As important, these essays help to continue–and yet, redefine–a much needed conversation among a wide range of activists and scholars...
What must the proletariat do to break its chains, to conquer its freedom once and for all, to transform capitalist society, based on the profit of a minority, that is, of the bourgeoisie and its state apparatus, into a communist society, a society in which production can develop freely to satisfy the needs of the...
There can’t be another Danilo – £6m spent on a fee, millions more in wages and three more years left on his contract. There can’t be another Oscar Cortes, a lesser-spotted winger of questionable ability, who is at Rangers on loan with what is understood to be a must-buy clause said to be in the...
A Marxist Party of a New (Old) Type In the current evolution of the so-called radical left in the so-called United States, one concerning trend is the growing popularity of Marxist-Leninist organizations, particularly among newly-activated young people. One organization that has been a major beneficiary of such a surge has been the Freedom Road Socialist...