Chia Barsen: Fidel and Worker-Communism

Fidel Castro’s death has split the mainstream media in their coverage of the revolutionary character. CNN and the BBC characterise him as...

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Chia Barsen: The world after Trump

There is one question that is being asked around the world, by both the working-class and the bourgeois: what will the world look like u...

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Chia Barsen:The Orlando Terrorist Attack and the Response from the Secular Left

In a 911 call made at the time of the Orlando attack, Omar Mateen, declared his allegiance to the Islamic State and also mentioned the Bo...

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Chia Barsen: Transparency, Occlusion, and Capital

Examining the historical changes in capitalism, both in productivity of labour and social struggle, can be viewed (at least in part), wi...

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Chia Barsen:Panama Papers and the Legitimacy Crisis of Capitalism

The “Panama papers” are the leak of 11.5 million files from the database of the world’s fourth largest offshore law firm called Mossack ...

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Chia Barsen: Women in Sweden wear the hijab to “support” Muslim women

Recently Swedish women have been wearing the hijab in public in order to declare their “solidarity” with Muslim women. This action is to...

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Chia Barsen: Explaining Universal Basic Income

Canada is the latest country to pilot “Universal Basic Income” after European countries such as Finland, and several Dutch cities. The Ca...

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Chia Barsen: Erdogan closing the doors on Turkish society

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continued his domestic and foreign war on his opposition by closing the newspaper Zaman this week. Police...

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March 8th: the struggle against the executioners of gender equality

Internationally, women’s rights and freedoms continue to be under attack by the instruments of patriarchy, organized religion and global ...

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Chia Barsen: Paris agreement and capital’s relation to nature

This year, in Paris, 196 nations signed an agreement to curb carbon dioxide emissions and ‘save’ the world from the brink of complete e...

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Chia Barsen: “Sharing Economy” and the state of today’s class-struggle

The phenomenon titled the “sharing economy” by the Economist in 2013, is an important development in capitalism economy with both ruinous...

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Chia Barsen: The value of being human: from Islam to anti-theism

In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Paris that have left scores of people dead and many critically injured, it is important to u...

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Chia Barsen: The Turkish election and Political Islam

The Turkish AKP (Justice and Development Party) will face an insurmountable opposition from the Turkish people in this coming election. E...

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