Dear West: Your ‘Age of Monsters’ Has Begun
By Ramzy Baroud I find it important to reflect on Gramsci’s understanding of the process of change in society due to the ongoing chaos underway in various western countries. Antonio Gramsci was not a […]
Antonio Gramsci
‘May God Be Pleased with You, Son’ – Mothers of Arouri, Gramsci
By Romana Rubeo As I listened to the powerful message of Arouri’s mother, I felt that Gramsci’s fear of hurting his mother had been addressed, in the most convincing way possible. Saleh al-Arouri, the […]
Palestinians ‘Are Not Animals in a Zoo’: On Kanafani and the Need to Redefine the Role of the ‘Victim Intellectual’
By Ramzy Baroud (To the memory of Ghassan Kanafani, an iconic Palestinian leader and engaged intellectual who was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad on July 8, 1972) Years before the United States invaded Iraq […]
Debunking the ‘Opium of the People’ Maxim: Football is about Politics and Class Struggle
By Ramzy Baroud Noam Chomsky is right when he says that, in the US, sports creates the necessary “fantasy world” required to shield people from understanding, organizing, and attempting to “influence the real world”. […]
‘Optimism of the Will’: Palestinian Freedom is Possible Now
By Ramzy Baroud In a recent TV discussion, a respected pro-Palestine journalist declared that if any positive change or transformation ever occurs in the tragic Palestinian saga, it would not happen now, but that […]
Will the Coronavirus Change the World? On Gramsci’s ‘Interregnum’ and Zizek’s Ethnocentric Philosophy
By Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo The prophecies are here and it is a foregone conclusion: the post-coronavirus world will look fundamentally different from anything that we have seen or experienced, at least since the […]
Bassam Shakaa: The Making of a Palestinian ‘Organic Intellectual’
By Ramzy Baroud It would be unfair to claim that Palestine has not produced great leaders. It has, and Bassam Shakaa, the former Mayor of Nablus, who passed away on 22 July at the […]
Gramsci and the Palestinian Narrative: Ramzy Baroud Speaks at ‘Nakba71’ in Vancouver (VIDEO)
Following are excerpts from Ramzy Baroud’s talk at ‘Nakba71 – The Palestinian Narrative’, a meeting held on May 18, in Vancouver, Canada, at the Simon Fraser University to commemorate the 71st anniversary of the Palestinian […]
Madonna’s Fake Revolution: Eurovision, Cultural Hegemony and Resistance
By Ramzy Baroud Rim Banna, a famous Palestinian singer who translated Palestine’s most moving poetry into song, passed away last March at the age of 51. Banna captured the struggle for Palestinian freedom in […]
New Year Reflections from Gaza
By Haidar Eid The great Italian, Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci wrote about the reasons why he does not celebrate the coming of the new year from a critical perspective. He also wrote very eloquently […]
What Would Gramsci and Said Do? A Socialist Perspective on BDS
By Rod Such The prominent Palestinian intellectual Edward Said, author of Orientalism and The Question of Palestine, admired the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci for his views on cultural hegemony. What might have transpired if these […]
