NOVANEWS Image from Twitter/@TIME Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pontiff, elected nine months ago, was named Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2013, leaving whistleblower Edward Snowden in second place, the magazine revealed on […]
NOVANEWS by Sonali Kolhatkar At first glance, Time magazine’s “Person of the Year,” Pope Francis, is a mess of contradictions. On the one hand, he has vehemently denounced the evils of global capitalism, calling it “a […]
NOVANEWS By Paul O’Keeffe Global Research When one thinks of the word ’agenda’ a few obvious meanings may come to mind – a list of things to do, a plan for a meeting, a goal to […]
NOVANEWS The situation in the Middle East is getting tenser. At the same time, it looks like there might be some breakthroughs and resolution on things–the negotiations with Iran, the situation in Syria. But of […]
NOVANEWS Welcome to the World Revolution in the Global Age of Rage By: Andrew Gavin Marshall MASS PROTEST IN SPAIN I am currently writing a book on the global economic crisis and the global resistance, rebellious and […]
NOVANEWS Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid fighter, has died at the age of 95, 5.12.13, a date we shall all remember with sorrow. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and politician. He […]
NOVANEWS What happens to a municipal worker’s pension when a city goes bankrupt? Unlike banks, they won’t get bailed out ADAM J. LEVITIN Dan McNamara, president of the Detroit Fire Fighters Association, speaks to firefighters (Credit: […]
NOVANEWS Part of the genius of the Decolonize/ Occupy movement was our instinctual sense that the state can’t really control the capitalist market. In fact, the state helped create this market by colonial force and […]
NOVANEWS However, I think we can also learn from the autonomist Marxists’ recognition that the current capitalist state is not monolithic or static. The state is the product of contradictory class forces, and since classes […]
NOVANEWS The years since the financial crisis have not been boring, especially here on the West Coast. Through strikes, occupations, demonstrations, and blockades, tens of thousands of us have created social possibilities with few precedents […]