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,...
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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...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA Recently, U.S. President Donald Trump reaffirmed his racist chauvinism when referring to immigrants who come from “shithole” countries. The countries Trump’s comments referred to included El...
BY VAL REYNOSO For decades, Dominican migrants have been forced to flee their homeland in pursuit of better living conditions. Responding to the effects of imperialist plunder, they almost...
BY ANTICONQUISTA Ho Chi Minh, the Vietnamese anti-colonial leader, once urged us to “remember that the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show...
BY NICHOLAS AYALA Freedom to vote and participate in political processes is fundamental to socialist states. Both locally and nationally, democracy is enshrined in the law of these states....