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This article will be released in full online February 12, 2023. There is a paradox, Benjamin Selwyn and Charis Davis write, at the heart of corporate veganism…

John Bellamy Foster discusses the past and present state of U.S. nuclear policy, asserting that its reliance on belligerent approaches endangers the entire…

Adolph Reed will be speaking in Toronto on February 9th, The Fascist Threat and What it Means for Working Class Politics. In 2022 and early 2023, a highly

This article will be released in full online June 3, 2023. Brian Napoletano considers the implications of recent work by Kohei Saito, in which Saito argues that…

Seminal essay from 1979 from Diane Elson arguing for the importance of Marx’s “Value Theory of Labour.” The essay was a product of debates within the Conference of Socialist Economists (CSE). Full PDF of the essay also below. Note: As Soren Mau pointed out, more than two decades before Elson, Raya Dunayevskaya suggested that we should speak of the ‘value theory of labour’ rather than the ‘labour theory of value’. See 'The Logic and Scope of Capital, Volumes II and III' he...

This article will be released in full online September 11, 2023. "How is it," Helena Sheehan asks, "that classical Marxist authors were able to address such a…

Historical materialism, in the dominant twentieth-century narrative in the West, is understood as confined to social sciences and humanities. However…

Aufheben's analysis of the long-term project to turn the NHS into a private sector, market-oriented healthcare industry.

Dave Holmes — We live in a world where capitalism is near universal. However, it’s not just capitalism but capitalism in its imperialist stage. If we don’t understand what this is (and what it is not), we can’t understand anything about the politics of Australia and the world today.

This issue's Review of the Month discusses Marx's role as the foremost revolutionary critic of bourgeois Enlightenment humanism. To this day…