Sunday, 30 March , 2025

Socialism

Do we need Marxism? Marxism and Stalinism

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos In my previous article on Alexandr Buzgalin and his time, the Perestroika turned Katastroika (https://www.defenddemocracy.press/aleksandr-buzgalin-and-his-time-the-soviet-russian-tragedy/) I put the question if Marxism is...

Ken Loach: “The BBC’s role in the destruction of Jeremy Corbyn’s...

By Arthur Neslen 16 December 2022 Ken Loach is one of the most influential filmmakers of his generation. His films have won the Cannes Film Festival’s...

21st Century Capital – Post-Soviet Marxist Reflections

Authors Alexander Buzgalin and Andrei Kolganov in discussion with David Lane, Radhika Desai and David Kotz How would Marx have understood twenty-first-century capitalism? For...

Geopolitics, war, climate and economy: The need for a global alternative...

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos* The present still dominant global economic system is a generalized, expanded and globalized form of the one prevailing in western capitalism during...

The New Imperialist Structure

by Samir Amin Contemporary capitalism is a capitalism of generalized monopolies. What I mean by that is that monopolies no longer form islands (important as...

Multipolarity: The need for a positive content

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos (*) I believe the demand for multipolarity is the most fundamental and the most genuinely democratic demand of our times. I am very...

The United States and White Supremacy at War with China

By Franklin Frederick In 1904, Jack London, the most celebrated American writer of the time, was sent as a reporter to cover the war between...

Morbid Symptoms, Premature Obituaries: The American Empire

By Sam Gindin* November 22, 2022 Globalization, which now confronts us as a locked-in inevitability, looked quite different in the first half of the 20th century....

On Human Rights Day we should reassert the collective, social character...

This weekend we mark Human Rights Day — the anniversary of the UN’s adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10...

Domination vs Aspiration? – Dimitris Konstantakopoulos

Sep 25, 2022 World War Three, the favorite topic of political analysts over the last few months, has moved from the realm of speculation to...