The crisis in science: progress, stagnation, and revolution The history of science is that of humanity’s quest to understand the workings of the universe, free from mysticism and supernatural forces. In this article, Adam Booth explores the revolutionary process by which scientific ideas advance, the link between developments in science and wider society, and the crisis of science under capitalism today.
Canada: learning the ideas that will change the world – review of fall Marxist schools Before you can change the world, you have to understand it. That’s why, in October, dozens of communists gathered in Halifax, Quebec City, and Vancouver for a weekend of presentations and discussion aimed at deepening...
Amazon Web Services crash: who owns the internet? In the early hours of 20 October, a simple error disrupted the operations of a data centre hub for Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Northern Virginia. The ripple effect over the next few hours caused global outages to...
US imperialism and Latin America: Trump threatens war on Venezuela Over the last few weeks, Trump has been brazenly ratcheting up tensions with Venezuela. Having declared its president, Maduro, the leader of a drug cartel, he has moved a tenth of America’s navy and B-52 bombers to...
Ireland: presidential election – a thundering rejection of the establishment Left-wing independent Catherine Connolly was elected the tenth president of Ireland with a thumping majority of 63 percent of the valid votes cast – the highest share of first preferences a presidential candidate has...
