I have written this essay because I have been irked by the media's discussion of whether or not our country has fulfilled the ideals of its founding fathers. So, I wished to clarify just what their ideals were. The United States has been from the beginning the site of an enormous, long-drawn-out struggle between the wealthy property-owning ruling classes and the working classes. The ruling elite sought to expand its wealth and power and its control over other social classes, especially (…)

A BBC Good Food survey of over 1,000 British children aged 5–16 suggests that 21 per cent are already vegan or vegetarian, with a further 36 per cent wanting to adopt these diets: three in five youngsters are already on a plant-based diet or moving in that direction. In British school canteens, vegetarian and vegan availability varies by council, by school, and by caterer. There is no national requirement to offer a daily vegetarian option. Where provision exists, it is the result of local (…)

Produit en 2021 ou 2022 par le Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa–Pilipinas (RPM-P, Parti révolutionnaire des travailleurs des Philippines), ce document constitue l'un des textes clés dans l'articulation du cadre théorique du courant réjectionniste qui a rompu avec le Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas (PCP, Parti communiste des Philippines) maoïste en 1992-1993. Aux côtés des Counter Theses de Popoy Lagman et des écrits d'autres dirigeants réjectionnistes, il expose les positions qui (…)

Produced in 2021 or 2022 by the Rebolusyonaryong Partido ng Manggagawa–Pilipinas (RPM-P, Revolutionary Workers' Party of the Philippines), this document stands as one of the key texts in the articulation of the theoretical framework of the rejectionist current which split from the Maoist Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) in 1992–93. Alongside Popoy Lagman's Counter Theses and the writings of other rejectionist leaders, it elaborates the positions that distinguish this current from (…)

Alexander Etkind's compact analytical essay on Russia and modernity — reviewed here by Yurii Colombo — argues that the Putin regime's project cannot be reduced to kleptocracy or Putin's personal pathology. Russia's fossil-fuel rent economy and nuclear inheritance have produced an overconfident, untested elite with material interests in defeating the climate transition and the digital economy that would render its wealth obsolete. The war against Ukraine is also.a war against a future in (…)

La Russie de Poutine a développé une catégorie particulière de personnages publics sans équivalent dans les démocraties concurrentielles : le troll médiatique — un provocateur auquel on accorde du temps d'antenne et des plateformes en ligne non pas malgré son excentricité et son style inflammatoire, mais précisément à cause d'eux. Evgueni Kazakov, qui écrit pour la publication indépendante russe en exil Posle (После, « Après »), analyse le fonctionnement de ces figures au sein du système (…)