How Prostitution Became the World’s Most Modern Profession

By Kajsa Ekis Ekman Sep 7, 2016 There is considerable difference between the reality for those caught up in the sex trade and the rhetoric promoted by sex-workers unions and pro-prostitution advocates—including feminists. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Mexico’s Zapatista Movement May Offer Solutions to Neoliberal Threats to Global Food Security

By Levi Gahman / The Solutions Journal Aug 21, 2016 The indigenous group has built an autonomous, locally based food system that escapes corporate programs and practices that are fostering unprecedented poverty, hunger and suffering. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Sheldon Wolin and Inverted Totalitarianism

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Nov 2, 2015 America's most important contemporary political theorist, who died Oct. 21, warned that militarists and corporate capitalists, obsessed with creating a global empire, would extinguish our democracy. We should have heeded his warning. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

Truthdigger of the Week: Bidhya Devi Bhandari, Nepal’s First Female President

BLANK Nov 1, 2015 Bhandari’s pro-democracy campaigning is helping to end the oppressive legacies of a monarchy that lasted 240 years in the country she now heads. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Pope Visits

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The Imperative of Revolt

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Oct 20, 2014 Two leading political philosophers, Sheldon Wolin and John Ralston Saul, explore the corporations' slow-motion coup d’état and the prospects of financial collapse and revolt (Above, a moment in a Sept 22 protest at the intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street in New York City) . Dig deeper ( 10 Min. Read )

A Market Basket of Dignity

E.J. Dionne Jr. / Truthdig Sep 1, 2014 Who knew that one of the best made-for-Labor Day speeches in American history would be delivered by a CEO? And who could have guessed that the summer's major labor story would not be about a CEO saving the jobs of his workers but about the workers saving the job of their CEO? Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

The Shifting Economics of the ANC: From Liberation Movement to…

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Dec 13, 2013 Leading anti-apartheid activist and former South African Intelligence Minister Ronnie Kasrils told "Democracy Now!" that the African National Congress led by Nelson Mandela made a "Faustian pact" with neo-liberalism to end the official policy of segregation and avoid civil war. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Eduardo Galeano: ‘This World Is Not Democratic at All’ (Video)

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 25, 2013 The "poet laureate of the anti-globalization movement," who has been published here at Truthdig, says "the world is organized by the war economy and the war culture." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Marxist Group Claims It Bombed U.S. Embassy in Turkey

Staff / Truthdig Feb 3, 2013 A Marxist group called the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front claimed responsibility Saturday for a suicide bombing the previous day at the U.S. Embassy in Ankara, Turkey. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Karl Marx Is More Relevant Than Ever

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 26, 2013 “For many in my generation, the ideological underpinnings of capitalism have been undermined,” writes Jacobin editor Bhaskar Sunkara at The Guardian. “That a higher percentage of Americans between the ages of 18 and 30 have a more favorable opinion of socialism than capitalism … signals that the cold war era conflation of socialism with Stalinism no longer holds sway.” Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

A Drumroll for Marxism in Europe

Staff / Truthdig Jul 5, 2012 European youths, disaffected by the amorality of modern capitalism, are turning to Marxism in increasing numbers. Could America undergo a similar revival? Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )