Music & Revolutionary Politics: Meet The Last Internationale

We interviewed Delila Paz & Edgey Pires from The Last Internationale. Originally from New York, the band has shown solidarity with popular struggles such as the campaign to Free Leonard Peltier or the fight against the Dakota pipeline.

Women’s Health and the Implosion of Trumpcare

The failure to repeal and replace Obamacare marks a major defeat for Trump and the Republican Party. The debate about women’s health was central to the debate and the disagreements among the Republicans.

Unfettered Economy Kills, Especially When it Thrives

Economic conditions affect health. In fact, economic conditions can kill. This idea is nothing new in itself--we have known about it for centuries. Engels’ The Conditions of the Working Class (1845) has already showed us this (see Figure below, drawn from data in Engels’ work).

Dreamland: Capitalist Crisis and the Heroin Epidemic

Millions of people in the US are addicted to opiates. In one three-month period in 2012, a full 11 percent of people in Ohio had prescriptions. How could this have happened? A journalistic book looks for the source of the epidemic, yet avoids the elephant in the room: capitalism. The following is a review of "Dreamland" by Sam Quinones (Bloomsbury, 2015).

Summers in Soviet Russia

This is the last of three articles by Anna Malyukova about her memories of the Soviet Union, where she grew up and lived. Anna’s account is not a detached political analysis of the situation in the former Soviet Union but rather a story of her personal experiences, which illustrate the deep contradictions that marked the society and the everyday lives of the people.

Everyday Life in the Soviet Union

This is the second of three articles by Anna Malyukova about her memories of the Soviet Union, where she grew up and lived before its collapse. Anna’s account is not a detached political analysis of the situation in the former Soviet Union but rather a story of her personal experiences, which illustrate the deep contradictions that marked the society and the everyday lives of the people.

Childhood Memories from the Soviet Union

This is the first of three articles by Anna Malyukova about her memories of the Soviet Union, where she grew up and lived before its collapse in 1989. Anna’s account is not a detached political analysis of the situation in the former Soviet Union but rather a story of her personal experiences, which illustrate the deep contradictions that marked the society and the everyday lives of the people.

Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art

In 1938, André Breton and Leon Trotsky worked together on this manifesto. The final version was signed by André Breton and Diego Rivera.

VIDEO: NYC Construction Workers Fight for Better Working Conditions

Thirty-one workers died in the past two years: 28 of them were non-union. The Building and Construction Trades Council launched a campaign to secure union-workers with appropriate training for all buildings with over ten stories.