ZNetwork focuses on vision and strategy for a better world but it also publishes content on history that is relevant to vision and strategy or that provides exceptional summaries and interesting viewpoints on what can be deemed important to the history of left politics.
The defeat in the southern state of Kerala of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPI (M), in recent elections means…
Every year on 11 July, the public sphere across the former Yugoslavia becomes, almost without fail, the arena for the same long-predictable…
This article positively presents Classical Marxist Theory as one part of Classical Marxist Leninist ideology. I hope it will introduce the conceptual…
There has been something almost surreal in President Donald Trumpās efforts to both whitewash US history as well as make 4 July…
Season after season, year after year, the tides have come in and out of New York Harbor. Long before the name āNew…
Major anniversaries of the Declaration of Independence have a way of coming at inconvenient times. When the bicentennial took place, the United…
Since the early 1990s, the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk, located on the Amur River, has steadily reemerged as one of Russiaās most…
āThere is nothing more common than to confound the terms of the American Revolution with those of the late American war. The…
The global tech landscape no longer resembles a global village; it is a fractured theater of war. Data sovereignty laws are carving…
It is often said that generals are ready to fight the last war. In other words, after every war, the military evaluates…
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