An electoral race for control of the Senate has begun in the United States, even prior Democrat Joe Biden won the presidency. Georgia state law dictates that since no single candidate for Senate secured over 50% of the vote, the candidates will face off in a special election on […]
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Conservatism, compassion, calculation, and Covid: Humanity’s end state
Marcus Rashford, footballer for Manchester United, made a political splash, when he successfully challenged the government to extend free school meals during the summer holidays. Steve Latham Initially they had refused, but the swell of public support forced them to reconsider. In recognition Rashford even received an MBE […]
Marx and the society of the spectacle
Guy Debord’s “Society of the spectacle” was first published in France in 1968 and it remains closely associated with the country’s events of that incendiary year. Sean Sheehan This fails to do justice to its sober analysis of society and, with a new edition just published, it is […]
Biden: victory without vision?
It’s easy to say that US-Americans didn’t elect Joe Biden so much as they neglected to re-elect Donald Trump. Biden’s victory was hardly what you would call decisive. Darrin Burgess* Of the nearly 150 million votes cast, he came out ahead by all of five million. The electoral […]
Challenges for the left
Overcoming neoliberalism (which is much more than an economic model) is undoubtedly the immediate task facing the left in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is a question of finding a realistic resolution to the enormous contradictions that the system creates and which put at risk the very survival of the human race.
















