Corporate alchemy
by Daniel Pinchbeck Now that the Evolver network and brand have established themselves to a certain extent, I want to look ahead to developments I hope to see in the near future, with this...
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by Gregory Albo It is said so frequently now that socialism is dead that even socialists no longer notice. This view is based, in good part, on the end of the political formations that came to...
View ArticleDangerous pedagogy
by Henry A. Giroux All over the world, the forces of neoliberalism are on the march dismantling the historically guaranteed social provisions provided by the welfare state, defining profit making and...
View ArticlePost-racial America
by Henry A. Giroux The killing of a young African-American boy, Trayvon Martin, by an overzealous white Hispanic security guard who appears to have capitulated to the dominant post-racial presumption...
View ArticleThe ‘suicidal state” and the war on youth
by Henry A. Giroux In spite of being discredited by the economic recession of 2008, market fundamentalism has once again assumed primacy as a dominant force for producing unprecedented inequalities in...
View ArticleThe warfare state and the brutalizing of everyday life
by Henry A. Giroux Since 9/11, the war on terror and the campaign for homeland security have increasingly mimicked the tactics of the enemies they sought to crush. Violence and punishment as both a...
View ArticleFree speech, war, and academic freedom
by Peter Neil Kirstein To justify American expansionism, presidential war messages frequently contained nationalistic proclamations of American innocence and virtue. President James Knox Polk in...
View ArticleInsurgent Democracy
by John Schwarzmantel This article has three aims: in the first place it seeks to offer some reflection on the role of political theory, and its relationship to what could simplistically be called...
View ArticleMarxism, the 21st century and social transformation
by Bill Fletcher, Jr. A discussion of the future of socialism and social transformation must be grounded in two realities. The first reality is the broader economic, environmental and...
View ArticleCapitalism and the problem of collective action
by Gavin Kitching The central argument of this article[1] is that humankind is now creating collective action[2] problems of such enormous complexity and scale that it is very difficult for individual...
View ArticleAnarchism, protest and utopianism
by Ruth Kinna The recent explosion of popular energy made manifest in the Occupy movement was described by Adbusters as a shift in global revolutionary tactics, for democracy and against...
View ArticleBeyond the politics of the Big Lie
by Henry A. Giroux "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." -- Martin Luther King, Jr. The American public is suffering from an education deficit....
View ArticleThe relevance of Lenin today
by Chris Cutrone If the Bolshevik Revolution is — as some people have called it — the most significant political event of the 20th century, then Lenin must for good or ill be considered the century’s...
View ArticleRevolutionary constructivism
by Sanjay Perera This essay is dedicated to those men and women in Singapore who were unjustly detained without trial under the Internal Security Act which has yet to be abolished. “At the risk of...
View ArticleThe end of American Democracy?
by Henry A. Giroux “For we already know that a worthwhile society will not be less but more free than our own. More instruction, more -- and more precise -- information, more concrete criticism,...
View ArticleSurviving neoliberalism
by Henry A. Giroux Public education is under assault by a host of religious, economic, ideological and political fundamentalists. The most serious attack is being waged by advocates of neoliberalism,...
View ArticleTaking notes 5: The truant insurrection
by Uri Gordon "When the government violates the rights of the people, insurrection is for the people and for each portion of the people the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties"....
View ArticleConquering a new popular hegemony
by Marta Harnecker A. Our goal: a different socialism[1] 1. A new socialism, far removed from the soviet model Following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the demise of the Soviet Union, Latin American...
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