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The relation between imperialism and democracy has been debated and discussed over 2500 years, from fifth century Athens to Liberty Park in Manhattan. Contemporary critics of imperialism (and capitalism) claim to find a fundamental incompatibility, citing the growing...
The news of the killing of Colonel Gaddafi in the battle to take Sirte marked one more episode in this NATO war in Libya and North Africa. The killing has all of the hallmarks of a coordinated assassination, synchronized between NATO aircraft and forces on the ground....
Africa, the least urbanised continent, still has the highest urban growth rate, nearly 7% per year; 40% of Africans now live in towns, compared with 3% in 1900. By 2030 there will be 760 million Africans, and if current trends continue, more than 70% will live in...
Do Marxists have anything to say about the natural environment and the crisis of sustainability? Has Marx been misrepresented by the many varieties of Marxism that have used his name over the past century?During the height of the economic crisis, the president of a...
David Harvey (2010) The enigma of capital and the crises of capitalism. London: Profile. (PB: pp. 312, ISBN-10: 9781846683084)Slavoj Žižek (2010) Living in the end times. London: Verso. (HB: pp. 432, ISBN-10: 9781844675982)Analyses of the crises, instability and...
Occupy Wall Street is just about the best thing that’s happened to America since the economic crisis first broke. Occupation is spreading. We’re standing up and fighting back. And we’re showing that another way of living together is possible. We’re a movement of the...
It should be no surprise that a city dubbed "Little Beirut" by President Bush Senior — due to the large protests against him — began its "occupation" on a level on par with Wall Street. On October 6th, in Portland, Oregon, ten thousand people assembled at noon at...
The entire political establishment in the United States is bizarrely oblivious to the fact that their multi-billion-dollar pursuit of an estimated 50-75 phantom Al Qaida terrorists in Afghanistanhas hastened the disappearance of middle income jobs in the US.The US...