by Dominic AIDC | Oct 19, 2016
The internet was one of the major, if not the major, technological development of our time. We thought that rise of the internet would bring about increased free media, increased access to information, and real public participation. Put more succinctly we thought the...
by Dominic AIDC | Oct 20, 2016
“We do not fight racism with racism. We fight racism with solidarity. We do not fight explosive capitalism with Black capitalism. We fight capitalism with basic socialism.” Bobby Seale in Seize the Time In the midst of the student struggle, let’s pause to...
by Dominic AIDC | Oct 21, 2016
It is one year since the students of Cape Town stormed the gates of Parliament, demanding that university fees fall and that universities end outsourcing at these institutions. This article was written by an Amandla correspondent and published in Issue 43/44 of...
by Dominic AIDC | Oct 21, 2016
By: Jan Toporowski From: Monthly Review Paul Baran and Paul Sweezy’s Monopoly Capital is a classic that has long outlived the conjuncture in American capitalism that it described. In a deep and scholarly way, its authors exposed the deep structure of that capitalism,...
by Dominic AIDC | Oct 24, 2016
By Brian P. Jones From Monthly Review Black Lives Matter and the Struggle for Freedom In late April 2016, at a town hall-style event in London, President Obama complained about the rising movement against the state-sanctioned murder of black people often referred to...