After 2008, Lebanon’s oligarchic elites engineered a financialized boom that fueled inequality and lined the pockets of bankers. Now its economy has imploded, leaving the country’s working class to foot the bill.

Degrowth stands for quality of life within planetary limits. This is the real opposite of capitalist growth.

Of course, their teeth fell out and they died young, but, hey, vacation!

It’s a well-known fact that private schools perpetuate inequality. But is abolishing them the answer?

A New Orleans radical mutual aid group organizes with and within communities to help transform the conditions that created the crisis in the first place.

As we rebuild from the wreckage, let's consider how the structures of the state have fatally limited what feels possible. Constitutional experiments in Latin America suggest a way to organise the state which can liberate society’s potential.  

Lack of international recognition as a state has disastrous consequences on an area already suffering from war and displacement.

Mckayla Wilkes has a chance to unseat longtime Democratic centrist Steny Hoyer. Her victory would be a game-changer for the left.

Libya and Somalia, where U.S. forces have spent hundreds of millions on airstrikes, have fared especially poorly when it comes to direct U.S. health assistance.

I look at the first chapter of a Thousand Plateaus on the Rhizome. This is one of Deleuze and Guattari's most well-known concepts, and can serve as a useful image or metaphor for Deleuze's entire philosophy.

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Amazon is a company in expansion. Not only does it not pay proper taxes in France, but it knows how to use public money to its own benefit.

My vision of democratic socialism wouldn’t be Utopia. But here’s the case it would be better than the status quo during both normal times and these times of crisis.

Socialists and other radicals played crucial roles in American labor’s greatest victories. To rebuild a fighting union movement, socialists must organize in the workplace.

United in Purpose held a call in April detailing its 2020 strategy to reelect Trump, including targeting minorities and using data-mining tools.

Twenty years ago, John Bellamy Foster’s Marx’s Ecology: Materialism and Nature introduced a new understanding of Karl Marx’s revolutionary ecological materialism. More than simply a study of Marx…

http://www.egs.edu/ Manuel DeLanda lecturing about the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. Public Open Video Lecture at European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program. Saas-Fee, Switzerland 2007. Manuel De Landa. Gilles Deleuze.…

Why you should (or shouldn’t) take to the sea and build your very own micronation.