The goal of the blog is to provide a foundation for understanding structures of colonial and neocolonial domination of the world-system and for understanding the revolutionary movements that have sought to develop alternative structures. The intention is to formulate an understanding of the essential characteristics of revolutionary processes, in order to contribute to the establishment of the subjective conditions necessary for a renewed popular revolution in the United States. I provide here a review of the most important themes.
Blog Titles and Dates, organized by themes and categories
Third World: The Third World project and its meaning
“The Third World grand narrative” 3/7/2017
“An integral and comprehensive narrative” 3/13/2017
“The Third World project” 10/13/2016
“The significance of the Third World project” 7/19/2016
“The Third World Project, 1948-79” 7/20/2016
“The Asian Tigers” 7/21/2016
“Derailing the Third World project” 7/22/2016
“Fidel speaks on the global crisis, 1983” 7/25/2016
“Fidel proposes new global structures, 1983” 7/27/2016
“IMF & USA attack the Third World project” 7/29/2016
“The Cuban structural adjustment plan” 8/1/2016
“Renewal of the Third World project since 1994” 8/2/2016
“The neocolonial era in Venezuela” 8/3/2016
“Hugo Chávez Frías” 8/4/2016
“The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela” 8/5/2016
“The Chávist presidency of Nicolás Maduro” 8/9/2016
“The Movement toward Socialism in Bolivia” 8/11/2016
“The citizen revolution in Ecuador” 9/19/2016
“The Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua” 9/20/2016
“Latin American and Caribbean unity” 9/21/2016
“The renewal of South-South cooperation” 9/23/2016
“Rafael Correa speaks at G-77” 1/30/2017
“The spirit of Bandung lives” 9/26/2016
“The new counterrevolution of the Right” 9/27/2016
“The subtle Eurocentrism of the Left” 10/3/2016
“Beyond Eurocentrism” 10/5/2016
“The possible and necessary popular coalition” 10/10/2016
“Reflections on the Third World” 9/24/2015
“A blog from the Third World perspective” 6/9/2013
“What is the Third World?” 7/16/2013
“What is the Third World Revolution?” 7/17/2013
“What is the Third World perspective?” 7/18/2013
“Third World anti-neocolonial movement” 7/19/2013
“Obstacles to Third World movements” 7/22/2013
“Revolutionary processes” 7/23/2013
“Third World and Marxism-Leninism” 7/24/2013
Knowledge (An understanding of understanding)
“Understanding the national turn of 1980” 12/10/2018
“The art of listening” 4/8/2018
“A foundational response to Trump” 2/23/2018
“An alternative epistemology of the Left” 3/6/2017
“Beyond Eurocentrism” 10/5/2016
“The role of US intellectuals, Part II” 8/6/2015
“States as actors in the world-system” 7/21/2014
“Domination and ideology” 3/31/2014
“Reunified historical social science” 4/1/2014
“Universal philosophical historical social science” 4/2/2014
“We can know the true and the good” 4/3/2104
“How can knowledge be reorganized?” 4/4/2014
“Wallerstein, Marx, and knowledge” 4/14/2014
“Universal human values” 4/16/2014
“An alternative epistemology” 4/17/2014
“Marx illustrates cross-horizon encounter” 1/7/2014
“Marx on human history” 1/9/2014
“History from below” 12/4/2013
“What is personal encounter?” 7/25/2013
“What is cross-horizon encounter?” 7/26/2013
“Overcoming the colonial denial” 7/29/2013
Intellectual giants
Marx
“Marx and automated industry revisited” 6/14/2016
“Marx and the working class” 1/6/2014
“Marx illustrates cross-horizon encounter” 1/7/2014
“Marx’s analysis of political economy” 1/8/2014
“Marx on human history” 1/9/2014
“Marx on the revolutionary bourgeoisie” 1/10/2014
“Marx on automated industry” 1/13/2014
“Marx on the revolutionary proletariat” 1/14/2014
“The social and historical context of Marx” 1/15/2014
Wallerstein
“Immanuel Wallerstein” 7/30/2013
“Wallerstein: A Critique” 7/31/2013
“Wallerstein and world-systems analysis” 3/25/2014
“Wallerstein and Africa” 3/26/2014
“Wallerstein: Europe-centered or universal?” 3/27/2014
“The terminal crisis of the world-system” 3/28/2014
“Domination and ideology” 3/31/2014
“Reunified historical social science” 4/1/2014
“Universal philosophical historical social science” 4/2/2014
“We can know the true and the good” 4/3/2104
“How can knowledge be reorganized?” 4/4/2014
“Wallerstein on liberalism” 4/6/2014
“Liberals or revolutionaries?” 4/7/2014
“Wallerstein on Leninism” 4/8/2014
“Wallerstein on revolution” 4/9/2014
“Wallerstein, Marx, and knowledge” 4/14/2014
“The alternative world-system from below” 4/15/2014
“Universal human values” 4/16/2014
“An alternative epistemology” 4/17/2014
Understanding with a global perspective
World History
“What enables conquest?” 8/9/2013
“Food production and conquest” 8/12/2013
“European feudalism” 8/13/2013
“The modern nation-state” 8/14/2013
“Dialectic of domination and development” 10/30/2013
World-System
“The European conquest of the world” 3/4/2016
“Cuba in historical and global context” 6/12/2014
“The peripheralization of Cuba” 6/16/2014
“French colonialism in Vietnam” 4/25/2014
“What enabled French colonialism?” 4/28/2014
“The natural resources of the periphery” 10/25/2013
“What is a world-system?” 8/1/2013
“The modern world-economy” 8/2/2013
“Unequal exchange” 8/5/2013
“The origin of the modern world-economy” 8/6/2013
“Modernization of the West” 8/7/2013
“Conquest, gold, and Western development” 8/8/2013
“Consolidation of the world-economy, 1640-1815” 8/19/2013
“New peripheralization, 1750-1850” 8/20/2013
“The world-economy becomes global, 1815-1914” 8/21/2013
Neocolonialism
“A neocolonial republic is born” 7/1/2014
“The US-Cuba neocolonial relation deepens” 8/19/2014
“The erosion of neocolonialism” 3/17/2014
“The characteristics of neocolonialism” 9/16/2013
“The neocolonial world-system” 9/13/2013
“Neocolonialism in Cuba and Latin America” 9/12/2013
“Neocolonialism in Africa and Asia” 9/11/2013
Latin American History
“Raw materials & class conflict in Latin America” 3/7/2016
“The open veins of Latin America: Gold and silver” 8/16/2013
“Contradictions in colonial Latin America” 8/22/2013
“Semi-colonial Latin American republics” 8/23/2013
“Free trade in the 19th century” 8/26/2013
“The punishment of independent Paraguay” 8/27/2013
“The open veins of Latin America: Sugar” 8/28/2013
“Indigo, coffee, and liberal reform” 9/2/2013
“The Open Veins of Latin America: Coffee” 9/4/2013
“Liberal reform in 19th century Honduras” 9/5/2013
“The open veins of Latin America: Rubber” 9/6/2013
“The open veins of Latin America: Coffee, Part II” 10/14/2013
“The Open Veins of Latin America: Bananas” 10/15/2013
“The Underground Sources of Power” 10/16/2013
“Petroleum in Latin America” 10/17/2013
“Petroleum in Venezuela” 10/18/2013
“Copper in Chile” 10/22/2013
“Tin in Bolivia” 10/23/2013
“Iron in Venezuela and Brazil” 10/24/2013
“The natural resources of the periphery” 10/25/2013
US Ascent
“Cotton” 9/9/2013
“The military-industrial complex” 8/29/2013
“Slavery, development, and US ascent” 8/30/2013
US Imperialism
“The new imperialist strategy” 08/20/2018
“The new imperialist strategy, Part II” 08/30/2018
“Obama and the imperialist web” 3/11/2016
“Lenin on Imperialism” 9/10/2013
“The origin of US imperialist policies” 9/18/2013
“US Imperialism, 1903-1932” 9/19/2013
“Imperialism and the FDR New Deal” 9/20/2013
“Post-war militarization of economy & society” 9/23/2013
“The Cold War and Imperialism” 9/24/2013
“Kennedy and the Third World” 9/25/2013
“The Alliance for Progress” 9/26/2013
“US Imperialism in Latin America, 1963-76” 9/27/2013
“Imperialism falters in Vietnam” 9/30/2013
“Jimmy Carter” 10/1/2013
“Pan-Americanism and OAS” 10/2/2013
“The national turn to the Right” 10/3/2013
“Reaganism” 10/4/2013 10/4/2013
“Imperialism as neoliberalism” 10/7/2013
“The 'neocons' take control” 10/8/2013
“Obama: More continuity than change” 10/9/2013
“Imperialism as basic to foreign policy” 10/10/2013
“The imperialist discourse of Obama” 4/22/2015
World-System Crisis
“Anti-imperialism is the way” 08/25/2017
“Brexit: A sign of global crisis” 07/13/2016
“The unsustainability of US imperialism” 04/26/2016
“A possible military world-empire and its alternatives” 04/28/2016
“Causes of the global migratory crisis” 09/18/2015
“Responding to the migratory crisis” 09/20/2015
“China and the alternative world-system” 07/18/2014
“States as actors in the world-system” 07/21/2014
“The future of the world-system” 07/22/2014
“Imperialism, fascism, and democracy” 07/23/2014
“The terminal crisis of the world-system” 03/28/2014
“The alternative world-system from below” 04/15/2014
“A change of epoch?” 03/18/2014
“Is Marx today fulfilled?” 03/20/2014
Neoliberalism
“Neoliberalism” 6/16/2016
“What are the origins of neoliberalism?” 6/17/2016
“Neoliberalism and presidential elections” 6/23/2016
“Neoliberalism, multiculturalism & identity politics” 6/24/2016
“The future of neoliberalism” 6/27/2016
“Imperialism as neoliberalism” 10/7/2013
Modern revolutions and their lessons for us today
American Revolution
“Independence Day” 7/4/2014
“The US popular movement of 1775-77” 11/1/2013
“American counterrevolution, 1777-87” 11/4/2013
“Balance of power” 11/5/2013
“Popular democracy” 11/6/2013
“Social and economic rights” 11/7/2013
“Right of nations to self-determination” 11/8/2013
“The rights of women” 11/11/2013
“Sustainable development” 11/12/2013
“The limitations of American democracy” 11/13/2013
“What is revolution?” 11/14/2013
French Revolution (posted in reverse chronological order)
“Bourgeois revolution in France, 1787-1799” 11/25/2013
“The French Revolution in global context” 11/26/2013
“Class and the French Revolution” 11/27/2013
“Popular assemblies” 11/28/2013
“Popular militias” 11/30/2013
“Revolutionary Terror” 12/2/2013
“Revolution and religion” 12/3/2013
“History from below” 12/4/2013
Haitian Revolution
“Slave rebellion in Haiti” 12/9/2013
“Toussaint L’Ouverture” 12/10/2013
“The problem of dependency” 12/11/2013
“Toussaint seeks North-South cooperation” 12/12/2013
“Toussaint and racial conciliation” 12/13/2013
“Toussaint and revolutionary terror” 12/16/2013
“The isolation and poverty of Haiti” 12/17/2013
“Lessons from the Haitian Revolution” 12/18/2013
Russian Revolution (posted in reverse chronological order)
“The Russian Revolution (February)” 1/22/2014
“The Russian Revolution (October)” 1/23/2014
“The proletarian vanguard” 1/24/2014
“The revolutionary party of the vanguard” 1/25/2014
“A permanent global revolution” 1/27/2014
“The role of the petit bourgeoisie” 1/28/2014
“Reflections on the Russian Revolution” 1/29/2014
Mexican Revolution (posted in reverse chronological order)
“The Mexican Revolution” 2/3/2014
“Liberal reform and the Porfirian era” 2/4/2014
“Peasant armies occupy Mexico City, 1914” 2/5/2014
“Zapata” 2/6/2014
“Pancho Villa” 2/7/2014
“A peasant-worker alliance from above” 2/10/2014
“The consolidation of reform from above” 2/11/2014
“The new Mexican bourgeoisie of 1920” 2/12/2014
“The Morelos commune” 2/13/2014
“The proletariat and the Mexican Revolution” 2/14/2014
“Flores Magón and the petit bourgeoisie” 2/17/2014
“The legacy of the Mexican Revolution” 2/18/2014
“Lessons of the Mexican Revolution” 2/19/2014
Vietnam (posted in reverse chronological order)
“Posts on Vietnam” 4/16/2018
“On the meaning of Vietnam” 4/23/2014
“Vietnamese empires” 4/24/2014
“French colonialism in Vietnam” 4/25/2014
“What enabled French colonialism?” 4/28/2014
“Confucian scholars and nationalism” 4/29/2014
“On the charismatic leader” 4/30/2014
“Who was Ho Chi Minh?” 5/2/2014
“Ho encounters French socialism” 5/5/2014
“Ho the delegate of the colonized” 5/6/2014
“Ho reformulates Lenin” 5/7/2014
“Ho synthesizes socialism and nationalism” 5/8/2014
“Ho’s practical theoretical synthesis” 5/9/2014
“The Indochinese Communist Party” 5/12/2014
“The Vietminh and the taking of power” 5/13/2014
“Vietnam declares independence” 5/14/2014
“France seeks re-conquest of Vietnam” 5/15/2014
“The French-Indochinese War” 5/16/2014
“The Geneva Conference of 1954” 5/19/2014
“South Vietnam” 5/20/2014
“The National Liberation Front (NLF)” 5/21/2014
“Construction of socialism in the North” 5/22/2014
“Agrarian reform in Vietnam” 5/23/2014
“The failure of US military escalation” 5/26/2014
“The ideology of anti-communism” 5/27/2014
“Cold War ideology & US policy in Vietnam” 5/28/2014
“The teachings of Ho Chi Minh” 5/29/2014
“The imperialist lesson of Vietnam” 5/30/2014
“US support for French war of reconquest” 6/5/2014
“Nuclear weapons and Dien Bien Phu” 6/6/2014
“Revolutionary sacrifice” 6/9/2014
Revolution and its characteristics
“Popular revolution and the US military” 05/22/2019
“Socialism for the Twenty-First Century” 01/07/2019
“After Marx” 09/12/2018
“Pragmatic socialism: The necessary road” 05/14/2018
“What is a revolutionary?” 02/08/2018
“Does socialism work?” 12/04/2017
“The historic contradiction of socialist states” 12/07/2017
“The infantile disorder of the Left” 12/19/2016
“The possible and necessary popular coalition” 10/10/2016
“What is revolutionary socialism?” 05/04/2016
“A revolution of, by, and for the people” 04/22/2016
“A just, democratic & sustainable world-system” 01/12/2016
“The twelve practices of socialism” 01/14/2016
“Popular democratic socialist revolution” 01/15/2016
“Lessons of socialism for the USA” 01/18/2016
“Race and Revolution” 01/19/2016
“Gender and revolution” 01/21/2016
“Gay rights and revolution” 01/22/2016
“Race, the university and revolution” 01/25/2016
“Ecology in an integral form” 01/27/2016
“Patriotism” 01/28/2016
“On spirituality and heroism” 01/30/2016
“A socialist revolution in the USA” 02/01/2016
“Presidential primaries in USA” 08/25/2015
“Guiteras and the Revolutionary Union” 08/06/2014
“The lesson of sectarianism” 08/15/2014
“Unifying the Cuban revolutionary process” 09/17/2014
“Revolutionary sacrifice” 06/09/2014
“How can knowledge be reorganized?” 04/04/2014
“Liberals or revolutionaries?” 04/07/2014
“Wallerstein on revolution” 04/09/2014
“Lessons of the Mexican Revolution” 02/19/2014
“A permanent global revolution” 01/27/2014
“The role of the petit bourgeoisie” 01/28/2014
“Reflections on the Russian Revolution” 01/29/2014
“The Paris Commune” 01/20/2014
“Marx on the revolutionary bourgeoisie” 01/10/2014
“Toussaint and revolutionary terror” 12/16/2013
“Lessons from the Haitian Revolution” 12/18/2013
“The French Revolution in global context” 11/26/2013
“Popular assemblies” 11/28/2013
“Popular militias” 11/30/2013
“Revolutionary Terror” 12/02/2013
“Revolution and religion” 12/03/2013
“Popular democracy” 11/06/2013
“Right of nations to self-determination” 11/08/2013
“What is revolution?” 11/14/2013
“Revolution and the modern world-system” 10/31/2013
"Revolutionary patriotism" 08/15/2013
“Revolutionary processes” 07/23/2013
The necessary Charismatic Leader
“Charismatic Leaders of the global revolution” 12/25/2019
“A tribute to Fidel” 08/13/2017
“Nicolás Maduro” 06/07/2017
“Fidel speaks on the global crisis, 1983” 07/25/2016
“Fidel proposes new global structures, 1983” 07/27/2016
“Thank you, Fidel” 08/13/2016
“Hugo Chávez Frías” 08/04/2016
“The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela” 08/05/2016
“The Movement toward Socialism in Bolivia” 08/11/2016
“The citizen revolution in Ecuador” 09/19/2016
“The Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua” 09/20/2016
“Latin American and Caribbean unity” 09/21/2016
“The Cuban tradition of heroism” 09/01/2014
“Moncada: a great and heroic act” 09/02/2014
“Fidel: ‘History will absolve me’” 09/04/2014
“The Moncada program for the people” 09/05/2014
“Reflections on “History will absolve me” 09/08/2014
“Fidel adapts Marxism-Leninism to Cuba” 09/09/2014
“Fidel’s social roots” 09/10/2014
“Fidel becomes revolutionary at the university” 09/11/2014
“The revolutionary faith of Fidel” 09/15/2014
“Unifying the Cuban revolutionary process” 09/17/2014
“The pluralism of revolutionary unity” 09/18/2014
“The defining moment of the Cuban Revolution” 09/24/2014
“Radicalization of the revolutionary government” 09/25/2014
“On the charismatic leader” 04/30/2014
“Ho’s practical theoretical synthesis” 05/09/2014
“The dream renewed” 03/06/2014
“Is Marx today fulfilled?” 03/20/2014
“Zapata” 02/06/2014
“Lessons of the Mexican Revolution” 02/19/2014
“Reflections on the Russian Revolution” 01/29/2014
“Toussaint L’Ouverture” 12/10/2013
“The problem of dependency” 12/11/2013
“Toussaint seeks North-South cooperation” 12/12/2013
“The isolation and poverty of Haiti” 12/17/2013
The Vanguard Party, the revolutionary educator of the people
“The legacy of Lenin” 12/22/2016
“The vanguard party model” 05/10/2016
“From proletarian to popular revolution” 12/23/2015
“Presidential primaries in USA” 08/25/2015
“Fidel adapts Marxism-Leninism to Cuba” 09/09/2014
“The pluralism of revolutionary unity” 09/18/2014
“Ho reformulates Lenin” 05/07/2014
“The proletariat and the Mexican Revolution” 02/14/2014
“The proletarian vanguard” 01/24/2014
“The revolutionary party of the vanguard” 01/25/2014
“Marx on the revolutionary proletariat” 01/14/2014
“The social and historical context of Marx” 01/15/2014
Marxism-Leninism and its evolution
“After Marx” 09/12/2018
“The significance of Marx” 02/16/2018
“The legacy of Lenin” 12/22/2016
“What is revolutionary socialism?” 05/04/2016
“Who defines socialism?” 04/20/2016
“Mella fuses Martí and Marxism-Leninism” 07/09/2014
“Fidel adapts Marxism-Leninism to Cuba” 09/09/2014
“Ho reformulates Lenin” 05/07/2014
“Ho synthesizes socialism and nationalism” 05/08/2014
“Ho’s practical theoretical synthesis” 05/09/2014
“The alternative world-system from below” 04/15/2014
“A change of epoch?” 03/18/2014
“Is Marx today fulfilled?” 03/20/2014
“Reflections on the Russian Revolution” 01/29/2014
“The social and historical context of Marx” 01/15/2014
“Third World and Marxism-Leninism” 07/24/2013
Religion and Revolution, complementary visions
“The prophets of our time” 12/07/2016
“A just, democratic & sustainable world-system” 01/12/2016
“On spirituality and heroism” 01/30/2016
“The visit of Pope Francis to Cuba” 12/10/2015
“Pope Francis: A progressive discourse” 12/11/2015
“Pope speaks for nature and the excluded” 12/12/2015
“Pope Francis: Care for our Common Home” 12/14/2015
“Socialist-Christian-Islamic alliance” 12/15/2015
“We can know the true and the good” 04/03/2104
“Revolution and religion” 12/03/2013
Race
“Spike Lee and the Black Klansman” 03/18/2019
“The teachings of Fidel on race” 10/22/2018
“Race, colonialism, and neocolonialism” 10/24/2018
“Fidel, Martin, and Malcolm” 10/26/2018
“Race in Cuba today” 10/30/2018
“Black political organizations in Cuba” 04/18/2016
“Using race to discredit Cuba” 04/19/2016
“Racial inequality in Cuba” 04/21/2016
“Black community control” 05/10/2015
“The unresolved issue of race in the USA” 06/23/2015
“The abandonment of the black lower class” 06/24/2015
“On racism and affirmative action” 06/26/2015
“The need for a popular coalition” 06/27/2015
“Race and Revolution” 01/19/2016
“Race, the university and revolution” 01/25/2016
“Toussaint and racial conciliation” 12/13/2013
Women and Revolution
“Gender and revolution” 01/21/2016
“The Cuban women’s movement of the 1920s” 07/11/2014
“The rights of women” 11/11/2013
Environment
“Trump, corporations, and the environment” 02/27/2017
“Ecology in an integral form” 01/27/2016
“Sustainable development” 11/12/2013
Key nations in the world today
Cuba: Cuban History
“Cuban property ‘confiscations,’ 1959-1962” 07/11/2019
“Agrarian Reform in Cuba: 60th anniversary” 05/17/2019
“Introduction to Cuban History” 9/22/2015 (rev 4/25/2019)
“The social sources of revolutionary leadership” 04/22/2019
“The Cuban structural adjustment plan” 08/01/2016
“Cuba in historical and global context” 06/12/2014
“Cuba and the United States” 06/13/2014
“The peripheralization of Cuba” 06/16/2014
“The Cuban war of independence of 1868” 06/17/2014
“José Martí” 06/26/2014
“The US intervention in Cuba of 1898” 06/28/2014
“The “democratic” constitution of 1901” 06/30/2014
“A neocolonial republic is born” 07/01/2014
“Instability in the neocolonial republic” 07/02/2014
“The Cuban workers’ movement of the 1920s” 07/07/2014
“Julio A. Mella and the student movement” 07/08/2014
“Mella fuses Martí and Marxism-Leninism” 07/09/2014
“The Cuban women’s movement of the 1920s” 07/11/2014
“Machado and the promise of reform” 07/16/2014
“‘Democracy’ becomes tyranny” 07/17/2014
“The Cuban popular revolution of 1930-33;
Rubén Martínez Villena” 08/05/2014
“Guiteras and the Revolutionary Union” 08/06/2014
“FDR and US mediation in Cuba” 08/07/2014
“The rise of Batista” 08/08/2014
“Guiteras & the ‘government of 100 days’” 08/11/2014
“Guiteras and Joven Cuba” 08/12/2014
“The Cuban Communist Party of the 1930s” 08/13/2014
“The lesson of sectarianism” 08/15/2014
“Batista takes control” 08/18/2014
“The US-Cuba neocolonial relation deepens” 08/19/2014
“The failure of the Cuban NLF, 1936-37” 08/20/2014
“The return of ‘democracy,’” 1937-40” 08/22/2014
“The failure of ‘democracy,’ 1940-52” 08/25/2014
“Grau and reformism” 08/26/2014
“Reform from above; reform from below” 08/27/2014
“The Communist Party-Batista alliance” 08/28/2014
“The Republic of Martí lives, hidden” 08/29/2014
“The Cuban tradition of heroism” 09/01/2014
“Moncada: a great and heroic act” 09/02/2014
“Fidel: ‘History will absolve me’” 09/04/2014
“The Moncada program for the people” 09/05/2014
“Reflections on “History will absolve me” 09/08/2014
“Fidel adapts Marxism-Leninism to Cuba” 09/09/2014
“Fidel’s social roots” 09/10/2014
“Fidel becomes revolutionary at the university” 09/11/2014
“The revolutionary faith of Fidel” 09/15/2014
“Unifying the Cuban revolutionary process” 09/17/2014
“The pluralism of revolutionary unity” 09/18/2014
“The Provisional Revolutionary Government of 1959” 09/19/2014
“Decisive revolutionary steps of 1959” 09/22/2014
“The Agrarian Reform Law of 1959” 09/23/2014
“The defining moment of the Cuban Revolution” 09/24/2014
“Radicalization of the revolutionary government” 09/25/2014
“The phantom of communism” 09/26/2014
“Communism and the Revolution” 09/29/2014
Cuba Today
“ALBA backs Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua” 05/24/2019
“Agrarian Reform in Cuba: 60th anniversary” 05/17/2019
“May Day in Cuba” 05/03/2019
“The social sources of revolutionary leadership” 04/22/2019
“A final testament of the generation of the Revolution” 04/24/2019
“Cuba convokes world peace movement” 02/20/2019
“Constitutional Democracy in Cuba” 01/09/2019
“People’s Constitutional Assembly in Cuba” 01/11/2019
“The Cuban people speak” 01/18/2019
“Cuban Constitutional Commission Reports” 01/21/2019
“The Cuban National Assembly debates” 01/24/2019
“The new Cuban Constitution: Continuity” 01/28/2019
“A more inclusive Cuban Revolution” 02/01/2019
“A more pragmatic Cuban Revolution” 02/07/2019
“Cuba seeks greater state efficiency” 02/11/2019
“Cuban people affirm socialist Magna Carta” 02/26/2019
“Race in Cuba today” 10/30/2018
“Cuba is still Cuba: Continuity, not rupture” 10/04/2018
“Human rights and Cuba’s reasons” 10/08/2018
“Reconciliation of peoples, Cuba-USA” 10/10/2018
“The Cuban Revolution and the U.S. Left” 10/12/2018
“Exploitation in Cuba” 09/10/2018
“The Party and the Parliament in Cuba” 06/19/2018
“Two heroic peoples in solidarity” 04/16/2018
“Raúl Castro fulfills his final duty” 03/08/2018
“The 2017-2018 elections in Cuba” 03/13/2018
“The political legacy of Fidel” 11/28/2017
“Cuba denies acoustic attacks” 10/12/2017
“Cuba denies acoustic attacks (P.S.)” 10/20/2017
“The USA lies and isolates itself” 11/02/2017
“Cuba speaks in Washington on ‘sonic Maine’” 11/08/2017
“Cuba confronts Irma” 09/20/2017
“A tribute to Fidel” 08/13/2017
“Cuba responds to Trump” 06/21/2017
“Trump’s distortions of Cuban reality” 06/28/2017
“OAS, Cuba and Venezuela” 06/16/2017
“Fidel Castro dies at 90” 11/26/2016
“Fidel siempre presente” 11/29/2016
“‘Yo soy Fidel’” 12/01/2016
“Tears, commitment, determination & hope” 12/05/2016
“‘Fidel is sacred’” 12/06/2016
“The prophets of our time” 12/07/2016
“The pride and the glory of Cuba” 10/27/2016
“Cuba’s high-quality public discourse” 10/29/2016
“US moves from hard to soft power in Cuba” 10/31/2016
“Thank you, Fidel” 08/13/2016
“Black political organizations in Cuba” 04/18/2016
“Using race to discredit Cuba” 04/19/2016
“Racial inequality in Cuba” 04/21/2016
“A revolution of, by, and for the people” 04/22/2016
“The visit of Calvin Coolidge to Cuba in 1928” 03/15/2016
“The normalization of Cuba-USA relations” 03/16/2016
“What does Obama intend for Cuba?” 03/17/2016
“Cuba insists on its sovereignty” 03/18/2016
“Cuba will receive President Obama with respect” 03/19/2016
“Obama stresses human rights in Cuba” 03/23/2016
“Obama seeks to expand Cuban middle class” 03/24/2016
“Obama’s historic address to the Cuban people” 03/25/2016
“Cuban and US economic perspectives” 03/26/2016
“A softer imperialism, not yet civilized” 03/28/2016
“Fidel reflects on Obama visit to Cuba” 03/30/2016
“Cuba responds to the visit of Obama” 03/31/2016
“The problem of bureaucratism in socialism” 01/11/2016
“Cuban students prepare for battle” 09/17/2015
“CELAC to USA: Return Guantanamo to Cuba” 09/07/2015
“The Internet in Cuba” 09/03/2015
“The arrogance of power” 08/15/2015
“Fidel celebrates 89th birthday” 08/14/2015
“The role of US intellectuals, Part I” 08/05/2015
“Cooperatives and social change in Cuba” 08/07/2015
“Workers’ cooperatives” 08/11/2015
“USA and Cuba establish relations” 07/24/2015
“Cuba is and will be sovereign” 07/03/2015
“The Cuban people reaffirm socialist revolution” 04/28/2015
“Raúl Castro speaks to the two Americas” 04/17/2015
“Cuba and the Civil Society Debate” 04/13/2015
“Cuba, United States, and human rights” 04/09/2015
“The Unfolding Cuba-USA Drama” 03/11/2015
“The Dawn of a New Era in Cuba?” 12/22/2014
“Russia & Cuba: A renewed relation for a new era” 07/14/2014
“Cuban news media on Syria” 09/03/2013
Venezuela
“The unconventional war on Venezuela” 05/13/2019
“The legitimacy of Maduro and Venezuela” 01/15/2019
“Juan Guaidó: The savior of Venezuela” 02/04/2019
“Cuba declares on Venezuela” 02/18/2019
“Cuba convokes world peace movement” 02/20/2019
“Venezuela blocks coup attempt” 03/04/2019
“What enabled Venezuela to block the US coup?” 03/06/2019
“Venezuela and world-systemic tendencies” 03/08/2019
“Victory for Chavistas in Venezuela” 10/17/2017
“How was the Chavist victory possible?” 10/18/2017
“ALBA backs Venezuela” 04/21/2017
“Venezuela attains 100% medical attention” 04/25/2017
“Nicolás Maduro” 06/07/2017
“OAS, Cuba and Venezuela” 06/16/2017
“The campaign of violence in Venezuela” 06/20/2017
“Venezuela calls Constitutional Assembly” 06/22/2017
“The neocolonial era in Venezuela” 08/03/2016
“Hugo Chávez Frías” 08/04/2016
“The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela” 08/05/2016
“The Chávist presidency of Nicolás Maduro” 08/09/2016
“Economic and media war against Venezuela” 06/09/2016
“ALBA, UNISUR & ACS support Maduro in Venezuela” 06/10/2016
“The problem of bureaucratism in socialism” 01/11/2016
“Economic war in Venezuela” 01/07/2016
“Political polarization in Venezuela” 01/08/2016
“Obama and Venezuela” 03/16/2015
“World rejects Obama order re Venezuela” 04/03/2015
“Cuba, Venezuela and freedom of the press” 02/24/2014
“Events in Venezuela” 02/25/2014
“Venezuela and the mass media” 02/27/2014
“US policy in Latin America and Venezuela” 02/28/2014
“Petroleum in Venezuela” 10/18/2013
"Venezuela and OPEC" 10/21/2013
Nicaragua
“The Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua” 09/20/2016
“The Sandinistas: Remembering the basics” 08/16/2018
Bolivia
“The Movement toward Socialism in Bolivia” 08/11/2016
“Evo Morales speaks at UN General Assembly” 09/30/2014
“Tin in Bolivia” 10/23/2013
Ecuador
“The citizen revolution in Ecuador” 09/19/2016
“Rafael Correa speaks at G-77” 01/30/2017
“Ecuador: The Citizen Revolution advances” 06/19/2015
China
“Does socialism work?” 12/04/2017
“The historic contradiction of socialist states” 12/07/2017
“The nationalist origins of Chinese Marxism” 12/18/2017
“The triumph of the Chinese Revolution, Oct. 1, 1949” 01/09/2018
“The Chinese transition to socialism” 01/11/2018
“The Chinese ‘bureaucratic elite’” 01/16/2018
“The emergence of Maoism” 01/18/2018
“The Cultural Revolution in China” 01/25/2018
“Mao’s ‘ultra-Leftist’ political errors” 02/01/2018
“The five heresies of Chinese socialism” 03/02/2018
“Mao: The foundation of the New China” 03/05/2018
“China’s Reform and Opening, 1978-2012” 03/26/2018
“Socialism with Chinese characteristics” 03/29/2018
“On dismissing official explanations” 04/03/2018
“China-CELAC cooperation” 07/25/2014
“China treats Latin America with respect” 07/28/2014
“China and the alternative world-system” 07/18/2014
“States as actors in the world-system” 07/21/2014
The quest for a more just, sustainable, and democratic world
Latin American Unity
“ALBA backs Venezuela, Cuba, and Nicaragua” 05/24/2019
“Sixteenth ALBA Summit held in Havana” 01/04/2019
“The dream of La Patria Grande” 03/04/2014
“The dream deferred” 03/05/2014
“The dream renewed” 03/06/2014
“The fall of FTAA” 03/07/2014
“The rise of ALBA” 03/11/2014
“Latin American union and integration” 03/13/2014
“The Declaration of Havana 2014” 03/14/2014
“The erosion of neocolonialism” 03/17/2014
“A change of epoch?” 03/18/2014
“Is Marx today fulfilled?” 03/20/2014
“OAS: Transformed from below” 06/10/2014
South-South Cooperation
“Caricom-Cuba & South-South cooperation” 12/12/2017
“The renewal of South-South cooperation” 09/23/2016
“The fall & rise of South-South cooperation” 07/24/2914
“China-CELAC cooperation” 07/25/2014
“China treats Latin America with respect” 07/28/2014
“BRICS advances to South-South cooperation” 07/29/2014
“The BRICS Bank of Development” 07/30/2014
“The nations of the Global South speak” 06/19/2014
“VII BRICS Summit” 08/13/2015
North-South Cooperation
“Russia & Cuba: A renewed relation for a new era” 07/14/2014
“Toussaint seeks North-South cooperation” 12/12/2013
Latin American Right
“The probable endurance of the ‘Pink Tide’” 05/29/2019
“The end of the Leftist cycle in Latin America?” 04/05/2019
“The ultra-Right wins in Brazil” 11/26/2018
“P.S. on Brazil: Neoliberal fascism” 11/28/2018
“Parliamentary coup d’état in Brazil” 09/02/2016
“The new counterrevolution of the Right” 09/27/2016
“Economic and media war against Venezuela” 06/09/2016
“Parliamentary coups of the Right in Latin America” 05/23/2016
“The Right takes power in Argentina” 01/04/2016
“The ideology of free trade” 01/05/2016
“Economic war in Venezuela” 01/07/2016
“Political polarization in Venezuela” 01/08/2016
The confusions of the Global North
Critique of the Left
“Popular revolution and the US military” 05/22/2019
“Spike Lee and the Black Klansman” 03/18/2019
“The white strategy” 10/19/2018
“The new imperialist strategy” 08/20/2018
“The new imperialist strategy, Part II” 08/30/2018
“On liberals” 08/08/2018
“Trump, reactionary populism, & the Left” 07/18/2018
“Immigration: Reframing the debate” 06/22/2018
“The Party and the Parliament in Cuba” 06/19/2018
“Leftist anti-revolutionary tendencies” 06/12/2018
“A foundational response to Trump” 02/23/2018
“On ‘ultra-Leftist’ political errors” 02/04/2018
“Anti-fascism is not the way” 08/17/2017
“Anti-imperialism is the way” 08/25/2017
“A tribute to Fidel” 08/13/2017
“The ISA Global South Caucus in Havana” 07/18/2017
“Responding to Trump’s Cuba policy” 07/05/2017
“Trump on immigration” 02/22/2017
“Let’s build houses in Mexico” 02/23/2017
“A Left narrative on the Third World” 03/08/2017
“A Left narrative on immigration” 03/09/2017
“A narrative on morality in international affairs” 03/10/2017
“An integral and comprehensive narrative” 03/13/2017
“The function of government” 03/14/2017
“Power to the people!” 03/16/2017
“The errors of the Left” 01/23/2017
“The fall of the revolution of 1968” 01/25/2017
“The limitations of the Left” 12/14/2016
“The infantile disorder of the Left” 12/19/2016
“The legacy of Lenin” 12/22/2016
“The Dangers of Trump and Trumpism” 09/05/2016
“The relation between theory and practice” 09/09/2016
“Third World socialism” 09/13/2016
“Why exclude white middle-class men?” 09/16/2016
“The Green Party Platform” 08/26/2016
“Can the Green Party evolve?” 08/29/2016
“Fidel Castro at 90” 08/20/2016
“The subtle Eurocentrism of the Left” 10/03/2016
“Progressive strategy after Sanders campaign” 07/01/2016
“Reflections on Neoliberalism” 06/28/2016
“Neoliberalism” 06/16/2016
“What are the origins of neoliberalism?” 06/17/2016
“Ideological frames” 06/20/2016
“The nation-state in a neoliberal world” 06/21/2016
“Neoliberalism and presidential elections” 06/23/2016
“Neoliberalism, multiculturalism & identity politics” 06/24/2016
“The future of neoliberalism” 06/27/2016
“May Day and the socialist alternative” 05/18/2016
“Authoritarianism vs. legitimate power” 05/16/2016
“What is direct action?” 05/09/2016
“The vanguard party model” 05/10/2016
“Connecting to the needs of our people” 05/11/2016
“Herbert Marcuse Revisited” 05/12/2016
“The New Left and its errors” 05/13/2016
“What should Bernie Sanders have done?” 05/02/2016
“What is revolutionary socialism?” 05/04/2016
“Black political organizations in Cuba” 04/18/2016
“Using race to discredit Cuba” 04/19/2016
“Who defines socialism?” 04/20/2016
“Racial inequality in Cuba” 04/21/2016
“A revolution of, by, and for the people” 04/22/2016
“The role of US intellectuals, Part I” 08/05/2015
“The role of US intellectuals, Part II” 08/06/2015
“Cooperatives and social change in Cuba” 08/07/2015
“Utopian socialism in the USA” 08/10/2015
“Workers’ cooperatives” 08/11/2015
“China and the alternative world-system” 07/18/2014
“States as actors in the world-system” 07/21/2014
“The future of the world-system” 07/22/2014
“Imperialism, fascism, and democracy” 07/23/2014
“Immanuel Wallerstein” 07/30/2013
“Wallerstein: A Critique” 07/31/2013
“Wallerstein and world-systems analysis” 03/25/2014
“Wallerstein and Africa” 03/26/2014
“Wallerstein: Europe-centered or universal?” 03/27/2014
“The terminal crisis of the world-system” 03/28/2014
“Domination and ideology” 03/31/2014
“Reunified historical social science” 04/01/2014
“Universal philosophical historical social science” 04/02/2014
“We can know the true and the good” 04/03/2104
“Wallerstein on liberalism” 04/06/2014
“Liberals or revolutionaries?” 04/07/2014
“Wallerstein on Leninism” 04/08/2014
“Wallerstein on revolution” 04/09/2014
“Wallerstein, Marx, and knowledge” 04/14/2014
Gay Rights
“Gay rights and revolution” 01/22/2016
Press (Media)
“Freedom of the press and socialism” 10/15/2018
“Cuba, Venezuela and freedom of the press” 02/24/2014
“Venezuela and the mass media” 02/27/2014
“Cuban news media on Syria” 09/03/2013
Public Debate in USA
“The white working class ignored” 12/03/2018
“The limits of bipartisanship” 12/05/2018
“Understanding the national turn of 1980” 12/10/2018
“Empowering the working class” 12/12/2018
“A white-male-centric take on the USA and the world” 12/18/2018
Presidential Elections 2016
“Can the Electoral College deny Trump?” 11/24/2016
“The Dangers of Trump and Trumpism” 09/05/2016
“Hillary Clinton or the Greens?” 08/24/2016
“The Green Party Platform” 08/26/2016
“Can the Green Party evolve?” 08/29/2016
“Neoliberalism and presidential elections” 06/23/2016
“What should Bernie Sanders have done?” 05/02/2016
“Presidential primaries in USA” 08/25/2015
Trump
“Cuban property ‘confiscations,’ 1959-1962” 07/11/2019
“Trump and NATO” 07/16/2018
“Trump’s global realignment” 07/24/2018
“Is Trump wrong about trade?” 07/26/2018
“The State of the Union under Trump” 02/13/2018
“America as seen by Donald Trump” 10/23/2017
“Military strength and tax relief: Trump and Reagan” 10/24/2017
“The effective populism of Trump” 10/25/2017
“Trump and the independence of nations” 10/26/2017
“Trump, the UN, and human rights” 10/30/2017
“Trump’s speech on Cuba” 06/17/2017
“What is Trump changing with his Cuba policy?” 06/19/2017
“Cuba responds to Trump” 06/21/2017
“Trump’s distortions of Cuban reality” 06/28/2017
“The logic of Trump” 06/30/2017
“Responding to Trump’s Cuba policy” 07/05/2017
“Reflections on Trump” 03/17/2017
“Trump and the war on terrorism, Part One” 02/20/2017
“Trump and the war on terrorism, Part Two” 02/21/2017
“Trump on immigration” 02/22/2017
“Let’s build houses in Mexico” 02/23/2017
“Trump’s economic nationalism” 02/24/2017
“Trump, corporations, and the environment” 02/27/2017
“Trump’s populism” 02/28/2017
“Trump and US militarist foreign policy” 03/01/2017
“Trump’s neofascist project” 03/02/2017
“A grand narrative from the Left” 03/03/2017
“An alternative epistemology of the Left” 03/06/2017
“The Third World grand narrative” 03/07/2017
“A Left narrative on the Third World” 03/08/2017
“A Left narrative on immigration” 03/09/2017
“A narrative on morality in international affairs” 03/10/2017
“An integral and comprehensive narrative” 03/13/2017
“The function of government” 03/14/2017
“Trump’s masterful speech” 03/15/2017
“Power to the people!” 03/16/2017
“Making America great again” 11/09/2016
“The Dangers of Trump and Trumpism” 09/05/2016
Miscellaneous
“Who is cyberattacking whom?” 10/17/2018
“Obama, Hiroshima and hypocrisy” 06/01/2016
“Holiday Review” 12/24/2013
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