Of all the explanations for Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, the one that rang truest came from French President Nicolas Sarkozy. “It sets the seal on America’s return to the heart of all the world’s peoples.” In other words, this was Europe’s way of saying to America, “We love you again”—sort of like those... »

In thinking about international affairs, it is useful to keep in mind several principles of considerable generality and import. The first is the maxim of Thucydides: the strong do as they wish, and the weak suffer as they must. It has an important corollary: every powerful state relies on specialists in apologetics, whose task... »

On the morning of September 27th armed mobs of ANC members attacked the Kennedy Road Development Community due to it’s participation in the Abahlali baseMjondolo movement. Since then, despite the clear presence of the police and senior ANC officials, the attacks have continued, these attacks have led to the murder of several Abahlali members... »

The United States Department of Justice has once again made a mockery of its lofty and pretentious title. After releasing an original and continuing disciple of death cult leader Charles Manson who attempted to shoot President Gerald Ford, an admitted Croatian terrorist, and another attempted assassin of President Ford under the mandatory 30-year parole law,... »

Progressivism, the current governmental policy that has provided continuity to the neoliberal model by deploying a discourse similar to that of the left is accelerating in its decline. The recent Argentinean parliamentary election results, which registered a marked decline for Kirchnerism, may represent the beginning of the end for processes that differ from those... »

We are here as elected delegates of Abahlali baseMjondolo, the South African shackdwellers’ movement. We approach each challenge and opportunity from within our own ‘living politics’ which the President of our movement, S’bu Zikode has described as a politics that: starts from the places we have taken. We call it a living politics because it... »

This past weekend marked the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the revolutionary community organizing group the Young Lords. The group called for self-determination for all Puerto Ricans, community control of institutions and land, freedom for all political prisoners and the withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam, Puerto Rico and other areas. The Young... »

As Mexicans debate last week’s Supreme Court ruling vacating the conviction of 20 men for the Acteal massacre, newly declassified documents from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency describe the Army’s role in backing paramilitary groups in Chiapas at the time of the killings. »

En el campamento del Movimiento de Trabajadores Desocupados (MTD) del Barrio San Martín hay mate y pan dulce. Son casi las 10 de la mañana y en la cocina hacen comida, en la panadería hacen pan, en la zapatería hacen zapatos y en la administración... »

1. In its heterogeneity and permanent movement, Bolivia is at the same time the experience and the fracture of magma. It is there where faces, bodies, and languages tell stories that challenge those seeking to understand, accompany, and enjoy. Our trip, in February 2005, was... »

At the beginning of the third section of Book II of Capital, Marx distinguishes between the direct process of the production of capital and the total process of its reproduction. The former includes both the work process as well as the value-creating process. As we shall see, the latter includes both the process of... »

Adam Smith says – and Marx comments on the accuracy of his observation -that the effective development of the productive power of labour begins when labour is transformed into wage labour, that is, when the conditions of labour confront it in the form of capital. One could go further and say that the effective... »