From copper in Chile, gold in South Africa, to rare earth elements in China, extraction delimits world history and the current geopolitical landscape. Natural resources are not neutral; we must understand who extracts them, where do they...
Why do I keep talking about memories?
Summer falls, and I peel open the scab
I’ve chosen not to open until now.
Oil kills everything—the land, the mangrove,
the water bodies and the creek.
In the Anthropocene era, extractivism has become a core symptom of the planetary disease of late capitalism/imperialism, threatening humanity and the inhabitants of the earth in general.
Galen, a scientist from ancient Greece, mistakenly thought that the liver and the heart produce and pump blood centrifugally, and that the lungs distribute air in the same manner until these vital essences simply dissipate or are consumed at the extremities. This view of unidirectional blood and air flow was hegemonic...
Antibiotics are extracted from soil microorganisms, whose evolution for millions of years created the molecules that fueled modern medicine. But just like fossil capitalism, expropriation of nature creates an irreparable ecological rift.
The mass shooting in Buffalo of May 2022 was sparked by a long history of racialist ideology and weaponized science. Mere recognition from the scientific community is no longer enough; we must organize and mobilize against the right.
Palestinian youths today are paving the way toward establishing food sovereignty and reducing dependence on the products and employment of the occupation. They uphold their values and principles through a cooperative organizational model...
From the beginning, Marxism took science extremely seriously, not only for its economic promise in building a socialist society, but also for its revelatory power in understanding the world. Marxism has made the strongest claims of any...
Like all historical processes, laboratories are shaped by class conflicts. This article presents a critical history of the lab and plots a future toward socializing our means of knowledge production.
Science for the People (SftP), the most important radical science movement in US history, arose in 1969 out of the anti-war movement and lasted until 1989. With a Marxist analysis and non-hierarchical governing structure, SftP tackled...
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