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STATEMENT – The Gaza Resolution [October 28, 2023]

Progressive International October 28, 2023     opular movements, parties, and unions...

“Historical Forces” – Stokely Carmichael Lecture at the University of Georgia

"It's the historical forces. Once it comes, you have only two alternatives. Either you are with the people, or you are against the people. It's very simple."

Leila Khaled’s Key Note at the International Dilemmas of Humanity Conference

Palestinian activist Leila Khaled delivers the key note address at the third International Dilemmas of Humanity conference in Johannesburg. Hosted by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa.

The Disastrous Inseparability of Western Science and Capitalism

"Science, in its many powerful institutional manifestations, is now essentialized as an a priori source of truth, existing above economic interests or social determinations and exempt from historical or ideological evaluation. It is the one remaining mirage of legitimacy behind which global capital continues its rampage of planetary looting and destruction."

WATCH: Economic Media: For the Decolonization of Money [Jonathan Beller]

Beller speaks to how monetary media, by inscribing code on bodies, is a force of ongoing colonization under racial capitalism.

WATCH: Professor Ellen Meiksins Wood: The Imperial Paradox: Ideologies of Empire [2008]

"The Imperial Paradox: Ideologies of Empire" lecture was given by Prof. Ellen Meiksins Wood, Professor Emerita of Political Science at York University.

A SYSTEM ON LIFE SUPPORT

"Is it not yet clear to the left that the political face of “breakdown capitalism” is fascism, albeit articulated in new and more sophisticated (progressive!) forms of violence and repression?"

Forgive Us Our Debts

"If today a government - in Italy as elsewhere - really wants to move in a different direction from the one that is being sought everywhere to impose, it is above all the money/credit/debt system that it must resolutely question as a system of government."

‘Our Defeats’ Review: A striking Post-Mortem of the Revolutionary Dream

"Périot starts a dialogue between the past and the present by confronting the future of the revolution that has been laid to rest by youthful cynicism, censorship and the bourgeois constructs of modernity."

Parasite Empire Unravelled

"How can we all step back a little and take a look at what is really going on, calling out the parasites for what they are?  How can we recognize that the same colonizers who destroyed countries across the globe have embarked on psychological asymmetrical urban warfare against us?"