Current articles
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PISA – The next crisis!
PISA – The next crisis! The youth is not good enough for the nation’s demands. This is a guest article by the wonful Melanie, whose Instagram you can find here. We thank her for this fantastic piece. Once again the nation faces ruin Germany’s first PISA results, back in 2001, were already bad. The tests showed real deficits in pupils’ competencies. What they did not show…
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War on Terror: Perfect Pretext
9/11 and the following “War on Terror” was the welcome pretext for an old US plan: to subject rivals to its own dictate after 1991.
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The new Red Scare
Palmer 1919. McCarthy 1950. 2026: a faceless memorandum. How Washington declares its own opposition a foreign network.
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Fascism? For what?
Fascism sought to suppress class antagonism by command and perished in the attempt. Democracy achieves the same through competition, voting rights, and consumption. Trump and the AfD have no need for systemic change.
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Who Speaks for nature?
Marxism grasps why capitalism ruptures nature, but even socialism can exploit it. It needs environmental ethics to grant non-human nature real value.
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The Mass Line and Theories of Knowledge
Marxism explains capitalism’s ecological damage, but socialism needs environmental ethics to value nature beyond human use and prevent all domination.
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Europe’s values and their victims – on deportation
The EU is tightening its deportation policy: “return hubs”, violence and pressure against refugees are not a break with supposedly European values, but the consequence of an order that sorts people by usefulness and sells exclusion as values-based policy.
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Workerism: There is no revolutionary subject
Workerism sees the working class as the bearer of emancipation, but revolutionary subjectivity emerges through political practice and organization, not automatically from economic struggle or structure.
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Where is the ideology today?
Neoliberalism has turned culture into a commodity. As ideology fades, profit replaces meaning. Without renewed philosophy and cultural engagement, technocracy, populism, and passivity will shape the future.
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The Party of God
A history of Hezbollah: from regional resistance to a Bonapartist pillar of the system.
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Venezuela: 100 Days as a Vassal State
In three months, the United States has turned Venezuela into its colonial territory in what is arguably one of the most brazen forms of subordination of the 21st century.
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On Prisons
On Prisons The punitive system functions as a tool for the ruling class to maintain their status quo. Disobediant workers are criminalized while incarceration fails to provide public safety. This is a guest article by Chris Alfonso, whose Instagram you can find here. We thank him for this fantastic piece. Although abolitionism in the contemporary context is largely associated with anarchism, dismantling carceral infrastructure in order…
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Schumpeter’s Death: You’re Not Worried Enough About AI
AI will intensify the class contradiction and its outward effects to a degree that cannot be compared with any other crisis of the past decades.
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Marxism – a summary
Reading Marx was no picnic even in 1884. Here we present an easily digestible summary of the most important thinker of modern times.
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The war against Iran
Iran is an ultra-reactionary class society. But that is irrelevant to the rejection of this imperialist plunder.
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Cuba: Despite It All
The history, conditions, mistakes and achievements of the Cuban revolution – from José Martí till todays “Opción Cero”.
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Fascism: A Materialist Analysis of Capitalism’s Decay
The developing fascism of the imperial core is a logical consequence of the falling rate of profit, not “dumb workers”.
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Bolsonaro and the Generals Behind Bars
Jair Bolsonaro, from mediocre fascist general to Steve Bannon’s hope for Latin America: a henchman of global capital and a master of the Prussian line.
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Algerian Blood in the Seine
In Algeria, France massacred hundreds of thousands; and in 1961, it carried that massacre back to Paris. France’s imperial boomerang.
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Attack on Kurdish Enclaves: What Comes Next?
Despite the agreement, Syria’s government forces are massacring the residents of Sheikh Maqsud. Despite fierce resistance, the enclaves fall, followed by ethnic cleansing. The West escorts Julani without interference.
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The Iranian Revolution: Bitter fruit
The imperialist overthrow of Mossadegh was the direct cause of the Iranian Revolution and of anti-Americanism in Iran.
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Imperial Privilege Despite Minority Status
Identity essentialism reduces imperialism to the abstract identity of the ‘marginalized.
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Jeffery Epstein was not a real person.
A thorough guide on Jeffrey Epsteins connections, crimes, influence and how he got there.
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Epstein: A marxist perspective
No, elite pedophiles do not rule the capitalist world. But its structures create them.
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Venezuela: Burnt Dragon
Revolution, corruption, collapse. A petro-state breaking apart under oil dependency, internal failure, and external U.S. aggression.
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Colonial Peace
The 20-point ‘peace plan’ cements all the contradictions that led to October 7th — this colonial peace could hardly be more absurd.
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“German unity”; We aren’t celebrating.
On the massive suffering that accompanied German reunification and how its mistakes continue to shape Germany today.
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Nepal – Peoples war betrayed
How the Nepali ‘Maoists’ Destroyed the Revolution and Left It to the Ruling Order.
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Gaza Is Occupied
75% of Gaza is illegally occupied under international law. The capture of Gaza City would complete the genocide. Despite losses, the Palestinian resistance remains strong – collective punishment does not break it.
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Once a Terrorist, always a Terrorist
Al-Jolani militias kill Druze in Syria – using ISIS symbols. The US continues to support him. Consequences for Rojava, parallels to Bin Laden, Israel’s role.
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Teaching values, an educational mission
School leads the subject to voluntarily submit to the demands of the performance-oriented society – as if it were made for their benefit.
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On Polarization in the empire
How algorithmic logic perfects the bourgeois subject and reinforces cultural hegemony.
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The Puzzle Piece: Mahmoud Abbas
Mahmoud Abbas is the key piece to understanding the division of Palestine, the rise of Hamas, the decline of Fatah, and the events of October 7.
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Reluctantly Compassionate
The threats of the European states are empty talk – their rule is in danger.
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Why Marxists Need Foucault
Foucault helps Marxist understand how ideology works today – linking identity struggles with class domination.
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PKK – History and New Beginning
History and “dissolution” of the PKK, and what its future means for the Kurdish people’s movement.
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Part 6: Hindutva and Modi (2019 to present)
Fascist Modi revokes the (de-jure) autonomy of Jammu and Kashmir; Hindu nationalism and the questionable Pahalgam attack.
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Part 5: Torture as Strategy (2008 to 2018)
Staged executions, mass murders and systematic torture and rape.
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Part 4: Violence and Displacement (1990 to 2005)
State terror, mass exodus, the end of armed resistance, and concerns about settler colonialism.
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Part 3: Hotbed of Violence (1981 to 1990)
Farooq Abdullah, the Afghan Mujahideen, and the Gawkadal Massacre
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Part 2: India, Pakistan, Kashmir (1885 to 1977)
The Partition of India, Massacres against the Muslims of Kashmir, a Referendum That Never Took Place, and Sheikh Abdullah.
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Part 1: History of Kashmir from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period.
Lahore, Sikh, Dogra – The History of Kashmir from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period.
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Remembering Means Forgetting
Remembrance is only made in ways that serve the interests of the state; the mechanisms that led to the rise of National Socialism remain intact.
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The Empire Strikes Back
Protectionism, currency imperialism, unipolarity – a look back at China’s rise, the fall of free trade, and the geopolitical tremors of a dying hegemon.
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Reign on Vendetta
Why the Palestine movement is such a thorn in the side of the German state and how Berlin simply wants to deport rebellious demonstrators.
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The Death of Hegemony
With the development of information technology, domination is harder to present as inevitable.
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The Myth of Rearmament
Rearmament is not a consequence of the war in Ukraine, but is driven by the arms industry.
