As the militant threat grows, so does the West’s self-deception

A lecture delivered by Amartya Sen at the Charleston Festival in Firle, East Sussex

The Neoliberal War on Higher Education

There is no actual “populist menace” haunting democracy

The Conference of Bandung declared the will of the Asian and African nations to reconquer their sovereignty and complete their independence through a process of authentic independent consistent development

The fact is that the ordinary people of the world know who the “rotten people” in our societies are. It is up to us do something about it, in a participatory way

The overt message of the ad was: autoworkers are incompetent, but they are dedicated to the perfection of a minute task and grateful to hold a trivial role in the corporation

Nevertheless, the moment is to be remembered. It is a tiny, tiny preview of what people are capable of achieving if they organize, struggle, and make demands of those in power

People who had spent the preceding years laying out exultant visions of a better world, of the grand creative projects they planned, of adventure and discovery, were suddenly sucked into the mouths of corporations dangling money like angler fish

Kept Politicians and Demobilized Americans in a System Without a Name

A paired example in which the news media reproduced similar reporting pattern constitutes Saudi-Arabia’s intervention in Yemen in 2015 and Russia’s intervention in the Crimea in 2014

The neo-liberal nightmare is not in a distant future; it is here, and only getting worse

All great social movements begin with an unassailable and irrefutable moral argument. U.S. policies are burning up our own cities and the planet

Black Lives Matter protests have focused mainly on African American boys and men killed by police. Now the movement is growing, calling Americans to notice and recognize the many, many women

Interview about Europe’s response to the Mediterranean crisis and how borders are ‘a dystopian project whose enforcement exposes the horrific violence of the state

If you really want to get rejuvenated, skip the tourist hotspots and go directly to the village of Gangjeong to support the extraordinary community that has been opposing the building of a naval base since 2007

Reporting about Venezuela has been so terrible that it doesn’t take rigorous study of Globovisión’s content to expose it

The tasks this sets for the Left is the longer term one of winning people over to rejecting capitalism even when it is, on its own terms, functioning “well”

It’s a point of honour for Venezuela’s government that despite the sharp plunge in oil prices and acute shortages of goods, President Nicolás Maduro has ruled out austerity measures

An in-depth interview on participatory economics