soapbox

Forgive student debt: Yo-yo no more!

April 2023

After being promised debt relief, the author castigates politicians and courts for resolving nothing and leaving students like him out on a limb.

The British monarchy has got to go

December 2022

An Irish American socialist ruminates on the special relationship the British monarchs have enjoyed with capitalism.

Passing the torch

February 2022

Vietnam-era radicals have an urgent task – to pass on the lessons of history to today’s activists opposing war and fighting capitalism’s crimes.

The supply chain blues

December 2021

Megan Cornish, a student and teacher of Marxist economics, looks at the absurdity of capitalists unable to get their goods to market.