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The Ukrainian Marxist Roman Rosdolsky was one of the pioneering scholars of Marxology. He was engaged as a Marxist activist and social scientist in spaces ranging from European cities like Lviv, Krakow, Prague, and Vienna...

Donkeys are friendly animals: intelligent and patient, they have been used for millennia to transport the widest variety of objects and products. Their humble and important work for humans, however, has rarely attracted scholarly attention....

Review of The Trading Game by Gary Stevenson (Crown Currency, 2024) A weak Left, struggling to navigate a hostile media environment, must sometimes rely on proxies to transmit its ideas. It often falls to fellow...

Review of Rosa Luxemburg: The Incendiary Spark by Michael Löwy (Haymarket Books, 2024) Can we be motivated to change the world when there is no assurance that our efforts will prove successful? How is it...

Imagine two scales. The first one is a timeline of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with its war crimes, destruction, and lives lost. The second scale is that of climate change, as measured and analyzed...

Irene Vélez-Torres A lot of work needs to be done to raise awareness that the corporate sector also has a social responsibility in guaranteeing a sustainable future. On the one hand, the traditional extractive sector...

Something unexpected is happening in Turkey. A centrist party, which has been shifting ever further to the right over the last three decades, is being forced to act as a center-left party. Its leader, Özgür...

On February 25, 2025, Warner Bros. Games — the gaming subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery — announced that it was shutting down Monolith Productions, along with two other game studios. In an official statement sent...

Donald Trump’s return and the shock caused by Washington’s U-turn on Ukraine have revived Emmanuel Macron’s leadership — almost as if he had forgotten the instability on the national scene. France has entered “a new...

Jonathan Bowden, the British far-right writer and activist, was like a figure from a Roberto Bolaño novel. The author of several dozen works of self-published avant-garde fiction that even his fiercest defenders describe as almost...

I signed my first union card my first week of graduate school. It was August 2013, and I was about to start the PhD program in history at Yale. When I joined the Graduate Employees...

In 2011, then San Francisco mayor Ed Lee, recently appointed after Gavin Newsom vacated the role to become California’s lieutenant governor, signaled the city elite’s further embrace of Silicon Valley when he helped facilitate the...