May 07th, 2020
Easter 1916 at 100: Its Marxian Dimension
By Kevin B. Anderson
This article was translated into Persian by Mobin Rahimi and Jalal al-Din Rahimi and was published in Problematicaaa.com on May 7, 2020. Its English version appeared on this site on March 29, 2016.
May 04th, 2020
Notes on Lenin at 150: Theoretical Preparation for Revolution in the Time of COVID-19
By Kevin B. Anderson
Two weeks ago, April 22, was the 150th anniversary V.I. Lenin’s birth. What does it mean to consider Lenin 150 years after his birth and at the time of COVID-19? To many on the global left — from anarchists to social democrats — the answer would be a resounding, “He means nothing at all to […]
May 02nd, 2020
Review of Marx e o mundo não-ocidental
By Lucas Parreira Álvares
This review of the new translation of Kevin B. Anderson’s Marx at the Margins Margins ( ) was first published in Portuguese in Le Monde Diplomatique Brazil. O livro oferece ao público uma investigação cuidadosa, rigorosa e de fôlego. A obra concretiza longos anos de trabalho de Kevin B. Anderson, professor da University of California, […]
January 14th, 2020
Sudan’s Revolution of 2019: At the Crossroads of Africa and the Arab World
The Sudanese uprising has unfolded in a slow, determined manner, beginning last December. By April it drove out Omar al-Bashir, who seized power three decades ago. Since April, the uprising has dug in in the face of armed repression and has forestalled repeated attempts to keep the Bashir regime in power under another name.
January 09th, 2020
The Bigger Picture
Expert on social and political theory and on global social issues highlights important aspects of political climate and culture in Iran
January 03rd, 2020
Trump’s Reckless Assassination of Iranian General Is an Act of War
The Middle East and the world woke up on the morning of Friday, January 3 to the shocking news that U.S. missiles had struck the Baghdad Airport, in a targeted assassination of Iran’s General Qassem Soleimani.
December 19th, 2019
Self-Mobilized Hirak Movement Persists in Algeria after Phony Election
What if an entrenched elite held a presidential election featuring some of its longtime members, but no one came? Or worse, what if the masses did turn out, not to vote but to protest the attempt of said elite to maintain itself?
December 11th, 2019
Millions in France Strike Against Austerity
On December 10, the mass mobilization against pension cuts that has brought the French economy to a halt entered its sixth day, with over 500,000 taking to the streets in demonstrations across the country.
October 04th, 2019
Review of Marnia Lazreg, Foucault’s Orient
Kevin B. Anderson, review of Foucault's Orient: The Conundrum of Cultural Difference, From Tunisia to Japan, by Marnia Lazreg. New York: Berghahn Books, 2017. 282 pp. ISBN: 9781785336225. Contemporary Sociology 48:5 (2019), pp. 551-553 Kevin B. Anderson University of California, Santa Barbara
September 05th, 2019
What Marx Understood About Slavery
This year marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia. Although this grim event is now being discussed in profound and penetrating ways, few in the mainstream media are noting the particularly capitalist character of the New World’s modern form of slavery — a theme that runs through Marx’s critique of capital and his extensive discussions of capitalism and slavery.