BY MERRI CATHERINE Dominica, also known as Nature Island, used to be called Wai’tu kubuli by the Indigenous Kalinago people pre-colonization and chattel slavery. It means “Tall is Her...
Tag: Capitalism
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA Owen Jones, the face of liberalism in the United Kingdom, has become the unappointed leader of the actions that will take place on July 13-14,...
BY TANIA APAZA This is my third attempt at writing about Grenfell Tower. I’ve tried to write it the “typical” way. The way a so-called “objective” journalist would. But...
BY RAMIRO SEBASTIÁN FÚNEZ When most people discuss the history of conquest in Latin America and the Caribbean, two countries are usually brought up: Spain and the United States....
BY RAMIRO SEBASTIÁN FÚNEZ By now, you’ve probably heard the news. Oxfam, a U.K.-based non-governmental organization, has been implicated in a major sex scandal in Haiti. Roland Van Hauwermeiren,...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA On Jan. 31, 2018, Monthly Review Online published a piece by Professor Benjamin Selwyn of the University of Sussex, United Kingdom, outlining a strategy for socialist...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA If Westerners were to ask themselves how the capitalist system has led to the displacement millions of people around the world, then all other arguments...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA & RAMIRO SEBASTIÁN FÚNEZ “Divided World Divided Class: Global Political Economy and the Stratification of Labour Under Capitalism (Second Edition)” by Dr. Zak Cope has...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA I was recently reading a best-selling zombie thriller and realized that rather than providing me with entertainment, it badly recreated real stories my parents have...
BY CARLOS CRUZ MOSQUERA If you’re of Latin American and Caribbean descent, it’s probable that your parents have scolded you since childhood for putting your elbows on the table...