The Revolution Returns?

By Alessandro The recent abduction of 43 student teachers of the Escuela Normal Rural "Raúl Isidro Burgos" is deeply related to the violence at the heart of globalized capitalism. On September 26, the students were arrested by local police while protesting discriminatory government hiring in the...

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Cuba: An Example of Resistance

by Liana Kallman For the past 36 years, the Cuban Government has posed and continues to pose a national security threat to the United States.    ―One Hundred Fourth Congress of the United States of America, 1996 Today, Cuba stands as one of the only non-capitalist countries in...

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No God but Capitalism: A Review of Wolf of Wall Street

It is not uncommon for Martin Scorsese to run his films around the three-hour mark. But strangely, his most recent film, Wolf of Wall Street (starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, and Margot Robbie), felt much longer. It’s not that the film lacked action, intensity, or any other essential Hollywood...

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Medicare for All Could Solve the Problems of Obamacare

Forty years ago, we had a fight about health insurance in this country; a political struggle over how to cover the uninsured. On one side was President Richard Nixon, who advocated bringing the uninsured into the existing system of private insurance through an employer mandate—a law requiring corporations to buy health insurance for their workers. On the other side were the liberals, led by Senator...

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Do You Hear the People Sing, Citoyen Burke?

It is the year 1832, and France is bleeding. King Louis Philippe has reneged on his promise to help the poor of Paris during a time when the economy has tanked and the hardships of disease and poverty bear down on the people of France more than ever. At this point, a brave group of revolutionaries...

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