Introduction: Democracy in Crisis
There is widespread recognition that democracy faces a crisis. The dominant narrative has focused on the illiberal behaviors of “populist” leaders whose discursive styles and lack of respect for liberal... read more
FOREWORD: This article was first published in late April 2023 in the open-access journal of the European Society of Medicine (ESMED), Medical Research Archives (... read more
Our civilization … is founded on coal, more completely than one realizes until one stops to think about it. The machines that keep us alive, and the machines that make machines, are all directly or indirectly... read more
Introduction: Beyond the Dialectic of Enlightenment
Arguably the most influential Western Marxist text on fascism is the Dialectic of Enlightenment, written by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer in exile, during the... read more
Introduction
The history of tenant movements and rent strikes is a blind spot in the general history of emancipatory social movements. As the primary protagonists of protest against the... read more
Introduction
The climate strike is a special kind of strike. It does not usually involve the collective withdrawal of wage labour, neither does it require union... read more
Introduction
Naturally, we call our system a democracy because, first, it rests on all the people; second, it gives participation to the people as they have never had in any other human... read more
In his poem, “Such a Parcel of Rogues in a Nation” (1791), the great Scottish crofter poet, Robert Burns, wrote scathingly of the betrayal of Scotland by... read more
Between 1845 and 1930 1.2 million people left Sweden and emigrated to America. This corresponded to one fifth of the whole population, making it proportionately the largest exodus of people to the United States from any single country. It was... read more
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