Month: June 2025

Originally From: https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/nuclear-options?pc=1682 Tariq Ali 17 June 2025Politics The expansion of the war from Palestine to Iran, which began on 13 June, signals an Israeli obsession persisting for four decades. As the Trump administration was negotiating in bad faith with Iran over its nuclear programme, the Israeli regime took advantage of an interval to bomb Tehran, assassinating leading scientists, a senior general and other officials, some of them engaged in the talks. After a few unconvincing denials, Trump admitted that the US had been informed of the attack ahead of time.…

By Joe Coleman (Posted Jun 12, 2025) Originally From: https://mronline.org/2025/06/12/pedagogy-and-class-power-reclaiming-freire-in-an-age-of-reaction/# In the early decades of the twenty-first century, education has become a frontline in the ideological struggle over the future of global capitalism. The coordinated assault on teachers, curriculum, and institutions of public learning is not an isolated culture war but a structural feature of neoliberal governance. In this context, the pedagogical philosophy of Paulo Freire demands renewed attention—not as an abstract theory of “engaged learning,” but as a revolutionary praxis situated in a broader Marxist tradition of class struggle.¹…