No pat hands in politics
For more than a decade, the Communist Party USA has been reconfiguring the way we work and develop our analysis.
Is this a socialist moment?
Is this a socialist moment? I hear this question when I travel. So here is the answer I usually give when asked at public meetings.
Did you know Hillary was a pinko?
The mainstream media, via The Washington Post, has apparently seen fit to join the rabid right's revival of the old anti-Communist crusade.
Marx in Copenhagen
"Goodbye Africa, goodbye South Asia; goodbye glaciers and sea ice, coral reefs and rainforest; it was nice knowing you." Such was George Monbiot's dismay as the recent Copenhagen Climate Conference ended.
Celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall
This week, we are informed, the world is celebrating the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
Capitalism, socialism, democracy and other letters to the editor
Michael Moore's film on capitalism shows how very limited democracy is under capitalism.
We must incriminate the basic rules of capitalism: An interview with Paul Boccara
Communist economist Paul Boccara has just published a book about the transformations and the crisis of global capitalism, in which he deals with the financial crisis, among other topics. Paul Boccara puts forward proposals to initiate emancipation from this 'gone mad' system.
Blogging from India #7 Meet the Communist governor of West Bengal
COIMBATORE, India — West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya is a leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and attended the party's 19th Congress here in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
EDITORIAL: Happy birthday, Lenin
More than 60 years ago, the African American poet Langston Hughes wrote, “Lenin walks around the world, Frontiers cannot bar him … Lenin walks around the world, Black, brown and white receive him.”
More on the socialist market economy
We print another reply to Prof. Erwin Marquit’s People Before Profits columns on the “socialist market economy,” published in the PWW earlier this summer. The discussion will continue in subsequent issues. Socialism and commodity exchange
