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Few asylum-seekers actually reach Australia‘s shores, and if they do, their treatment beggars belief One of my first assignments as a…
LAST week, the US government announced that it was building the biggest-ever war machine. Military spending will rise to $379billion, of which…
Since September 11th, the progressive movement has been on the defensive. But times are changing. The mushrooming Enron scandal; European criticism of…
Even by Washington’s standards, the ability of John Ashcroft to reinvent himself has been a wonder to behold. Just a year ago,…
The art of the deal is a media dream: Savvy achievers get to the top. Guile and artifice — even outright deception…
1. Is there life after capitalism? Yes, I think there is not only life after capitalism…but a menagerie of sorts –…
The AFL-CIO’s uncritical support of the government’s war in Afghanistan and sham “war on terrorism” has disappointed, if not disillusioned, many activists,…
Tony Blair’s heroic peacemaking is not as it seems. Take the Middle East. When Blair welcomed Yasser Arafat to Downing Street following…
Tony Blair’s heroic peacemaking is not as it seems. Take the Middle East. When Blair welcomed Yasser Arafat to Downing Street following…
A Difficulty Criticizing Third World States For a leftist from the third world, living in the first world, there is a certain…
PacificaĆ¢€ā¢s struggle is in a new phase, about to take a big leap forward. Countless activists have pursued diverse strategies and have…
The response to Professor Noam Chomsky’s visit to Pakistan in November 2001 was too overwhelming for words. Chomsky is known to be…
Today a Village Voice reporter called to interview me for a story he is writing. His assignment? To do a post-mortem on…
[ZNet Editor’s note: ‘New Politics: a journal of socialist thought’ invited Michael Albert to answer the query “Is Socialism Still on the…
[ZNet Editor’s note: ‘New Politics: a journal of socialist thought’ invited Michael Albert to answer the query “Is Socialism Still on the…
It is unfortunate that with such serious issues to attend to, Christopher Hitchens insists on wasting time on irrelevant and fanciful diatribes…
I have gotten a lot of mail asking me to react to Christopher Hitchens comments in the Nation magazine and on the…
Note: This debate occurred in 2001. Christopher Hitchens wrote an essay in the Nation, and a subsequent comment on the Nation web…
(Revised, 22 Sept. 2001) The list below presents some specific incidents of U.S. policy in the Middle East. The list minimizes the…
BY ITS own claims economics is the most scientific “social science.” Yet non-economist critics such as E.F. Schumacher tell us that “to…
REGULAR READERS of Z know I frequently use this column to argue that private ownership yields grotesque inequalities, while markets: · hide…
Just after the Washington Demos, the NY Times, Washington Post, and many other mainstream media outlets did “evaluative” pieces on the events.…
This Fall Michael Albert went to Canada for some talks and did an interview with the excellent Canadian Magazine, Canadian Dimension. Here…
In a 1962 speech titled "The Duty of the Revolutionary." Fidel Castro said, The summary of the nightmare which torments America from…
Ā [This essay is part of an extended debate with David Horowitz found here.] Ā David, Ā I can understand being busy,…
Ā [This essay is part of an extended debate with David Horowitz foundĀ here.] Ā David, Ā Let’s assume all your assertions about…
[This essay is part of an extended debate with David Horowitz found here.] David, You say “Socialism doesn’t work first because you…
[This essay is part of an extended debate with David Horowitz foundĀ here.] The essay Horowitz is referring to is titled “Is Socialism…
Albert Replies to Critics of His Anarchism Essay We have attempted to incorporate all the materials that have come our way, and…
In a number of mainstream media outlets, anarchism has recently been associated with John Zerzan. In my last ZNet commentary (Anarchism), I…
[ZNet Editor’s Note: In early November, 1999, ZNet posted an article by Michael Albert entitled Assessing Libertarian Municipalism. This page is devoted…
For purposes of exploration and debate with Libertarian Municipalism’s Peter Staudenmaier. See whole debate here. Hi Peter, We have to stop…
For purposes of exploration and debate with ISO’s Alan Maass. The whole debate can be found here. Maass has written a rejoinder focusing…
For purposes of exploration and debate with ISO’s Alan Maass. The whole debate can be found here. Maass opens his essay by…
For purposes of exploration and debate with Libertarian Municipalism’s Peter Staudenmaier. See whole debate here. Peter, you begin by saying you may have…
For purposes of exploration and debate with ISO’s Alan Maass. The whole debate can be found here. Our topic in this…
For purposes of exploration and debate with ISO’s Alan Maass. The whole debate can be found here. Alan, I hope you won’t mind…
For purposes of exploration and debate with Alan Maass of the International Socialist Organization. The whole debate can be found here. How…
For purposes of exploration and debate with Libertarian Municipalism’s Peter Staudenmaier. See whole debate here. Peter, you begin by saying we…
For purposes of exploration and debate of Libertarian Municipalism. See whole debate here. Hello… I received a post from Michael Caplan, who is engineering/moderating…
For purposes of exploration and debate with Libertarian Municipalism’s Peter Staudenmaier. See whole debate here. Hi, Peter. What have we embarked on–keeping…
For purposes of exploration and debate with Libertarian Municipalism’s Peter Staudenmaier. See whole debate here. Peter, I am happy to…
For purposes of exploration and debate with Libertarian Municipalism’s Peter Staudenmaier. See whole debate here. Since we have already had some exchange…
On a recent speaking tour to Montreal (1999) a number of folks asked me my reactions to Libertarian Municipalism-a vision for politics…
Article from New Politics Symposium: The Relevance of Marxism on the 150th Anniversary of The Communist Manifesto, Winter, 1998 Perhaps the most…
In the face of employer attack, the proportion of workers in unions fell from 27 percent in 1978 to 15 percent in…
I first became politically active in 1966. By 1969—it was a fast moving time—I had a pretty well developed political perspective. For…
Left activists are moved, first and foremost, by refusal to tolerate injustice. Still, a clear conception of improved social relations can help…
To retain control of oil prices, forestall a peace dividend, and divert attention from the abominable price of Reagan’s war on the…
In January 1993 Michael Albert and Noam Chomsky recorded a series of conversations which were later distributed by Z Magazine. Here we…
