Al Mayadeen: Palestine and the Problem of Land

By Hanna Eid. Peter Linebaugh’s article makes no mention of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, the Axis of Resistance, or Iran, which form constituent elements of the ‘real movement’ in West Asia away from the dominance of imperialist power centers. The principal contradiction of our world system today remains the antagonism between the collective imperialism of the

Dissident Voice: Playing with Financial Fire

By Bill Scheuerman and Sid Plotkin. Capitalism, Marx said, is unceasingly prone to crisis. His observation applies as much to financial capital as to industrial capital, as the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank of New York attest. In their pursuit of profits, banks make loans that borrowers cannot repay or back

Dissident Voice: Lessons Unlearned – Karl Marx knew a thing or two about politics

By Greg Godels. Writing over a century-and-a-half ago, Karl Marx studied the aftermath of the 1848 revolutions that sought to drive a stake in the vitals of the European monarchies and consolidate the rule of the emerging bourgeois classes. Contrary to his critics — especially the dismissive scholars — he applied his critical historical theories