Cuba has been able to achieve remarkable success in the fields of medicine, education, sustainable development, sports, etc. In this article, I will briefly highlight how the Cuban healthcare system functions, some of its successes, and...
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Defined as an equitable and democratic reduction of energy and material throughput targeted at rich nations and the globally wealthy, degrowth has grown in popularity over the last few years with growing political support.
At the turn of the twentieth century, a small and dwindling crocodile population lived in the Zor al-Zarqa/Kabbara marshlands near Palestine’s Mediterranean coast. Colonial zoologists had a geographically disproportionate fascination with...
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.
A recent umbrella study sent shockwaves across the scientific community and popular outlets as it disproved the “serotonin hypothesis” of depression. How did a flawed theory dominate research and health care for decades? What is the...
The “tragedy” has been apparent in COVID-19, big tech, irrationalism, and intensified geopolitical conflict—all intricately linked to science under capitalism. A science for the people is more urgent than ever.
Now as in the nineteenth century, the problem with technology is one of organization and social relations. It is past time for a true Luddite resurgence.
Paul Farmer passed away in February 2022. More than a renowned public health expert, clinician, and humanitarian hero, he sought to understand the root of global health inequality in order to change it.
This article is a snapshot from The Mapping Project: a project created by activists and organizers in eastern Massachusetts, investigating local links between entities responsible for the colonization of Palestine, for dispossession, and...
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...