Communist Manifesto
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A Return to Marx’s Ecological Critique By Simon Butler
Do oil spills make good economic sense? A witness called by Canadian firm Enbridge Inc. – which wants approval to build a $6.5-billion pipeline linking Alberta’s tar sands with the Pacific coast – told a recent hearing in British Columbia (BC) that the answer is yes. Continue reading
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Political life after the Communist Party By Kate Hudsen
In 1991, Kate Hudson was one of the leaders of the left opposition within the Communist Party of Great Britain that unsuccessfully attempted to prevent that organisation’s dissolution. Here she writes on political life after the Party. Continue reading
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Democracy and the Communist Party By Aniket Alam
This paper, rather preliminary note towards a full paper, attempts to look at the troubled history of democracy (both as a concept as well as a practice) and parties claiming affiliation to Marxism-Leninism. Continue reading
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The Left’s Crisis By Leo Panitch
It was indicative of the left’s sorry lack of ambition in the crisis that its calls for salary limits on Wall Street executives and transaction taxes on the financial sector were far more common than demands for turning the banks into public utilities. Continue reading
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Video: The Return of Socialism
On June 23, John Nichols, author of The “S” Word: : A Short History of an American Tradition … Socialism, joined Phil Gasper, author of The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History’s Most Important Political Document in Madison, WI for an event to discuss the history of socialism in America and its increasing popularity… Continue reading
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The Path to Human Development: Capitalism or Socialism?
If we are going to talk about the possibility of human development, we have to recognize that a precondition for that development is sufficient food, good health, education, and the opportunity to make decisions for ourselves. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 