Tag: Global South
Out of Lockdown and Back into the Long Depression
Ashley Smith interviews Marxist economist Michael Roberts about the deeper reasons for capitalism’s contemporary malaise, the shape and contradictions of the recovery, and debates between Marxists and Keynesians about the ability of government spending to restore growth and profitability to capitalism.
Trans Organizing in Times of Mass Struggle
Spectre Journal plans to publish in Issue Five a series of short essays that consider the involvement of trans organizers in recent cycles of struggle.
I Am Going to Die, But Algeria Will Be Independent
Jeffrey Webber reviews Joseph Andreas’ Prix Goncourt-winning novel about a French communist who joins the Algerian resistance.
Reflections on the Third Intifada
Salwa Ibrahim writes about the novelty of the third intifada currently taking shape in Palestine.
Friends in Palestine, Has the Future Arrived?
Palestinian activist G. N. Nithya writes of the horrors of the ever-continuous Nakba.
The Colombian State Is at War with Its People
Colombia’s sustained assault on protesters this week represents a form of warfare that indigenous and Black communities know all too well.
Turning a Profit from Death
How can we stem Narendra Modi’s murderous response to Covid-19 in India? Spectre’s Tithi Bhattacharya explains why anti-capitalism is central to this struggle and why Modi is by no means up to the task.
Why Feminism? Why Now?
What does it mean to think about Palestinian liberation as a feminist issue?
Mariátegui in Debate
Deni Alfaro Rubbo reviews Mike Gonzalez’s new book, In the Red Corner, about the political ideas of José Carlos Mariátegui.