Culture

Culture

Beyond the Triangle of Emancipation

August 2012
Tom Reifer

In 2009, the song Changes, by Tupac Amaru Shakur, was put on the Pope’s playlist. What is Tupac’s significance, in light of his making the Pope’s playlist and the realities facing African-Americans today in the context of the USA's overpacked prison system, the largest in world history?

Farmer by Farmer, an Organic Transition

February 2011
John Cavanagh
Robin Broad

After decades of chemicals, farmers in the Philippines are seeing the benefits of organic farming. But what convinced them to make the switch in the first place?

Global Crisis: A Russian Perspective

January 2011
Boris Kagarlitsky

The world systems analysis is failing to explain and respond to the current crisis in global capitalism.

The Return of Fascism

December 2010
Boris Kagarlitsky

The logic of Russian fascists has always stood in sharp contrast to the logic and traditions of the development of the nation.

When world recession knocks at the door it's time to change

October 2010
Marcos Arruda

Since economic growth dependent on fossil fuels cannot persist, we must challenge the financial market ideology which continues to take precedence over human well being and the evironment.

Controlling People Through Language

September 2010
Boris Kagarlitsky

Market reforms have given rise to new revisions of the language, and all personal activities are now expressed in terms of buying and selling.

Small country, big struggle

September 2010
Mike Marqusee

Might Western leaders' silence on the human rights abuses of Swaziland's repressive and venal monarchy, compared to the frequently expressed outrage at Zimbabwe's Mugabe, have something to do with King Mswati's enthusiasm for neoliberalism and western corporations?

Lenin’s Loss Is Stalin’s Gain

April 2010
Boris Kagarlitsky

The dumbing-down of the masses is the primary achievement of the last two decades of so-called "reform” in Russia. Society has changed radically, and the mechanism by which cultural identity is formed has been seriously undermined, if not completely destroyed.

The Class War on Leninsky Prospekt

March 2010
Boris Kagarlitsky

Protests sparked by last month’s fatal car accident in Moscow reveal the depth and scale of the anti-corporate mood in today’s Russia.

The three legacies of Darwin

January 2010
Achin Vanaik

The legacy of Darwin is not only the knowledge that there is a biological continuum between the animal and the human worlds, but also that there is a link between culture and nature. If only mainstream economics could learn from the life sciences which Darwin did so much to nourish, it might recognise that you cannot have unlimited growth in a finite world.