Burning questions put to Shaman Rufino of Venezuela
A Huottüja leader easily dispatches most of the major political issues the country is facing, including the electoral dispute.
View ArticleSurrealism as a revolutionary movement
Surrealism has been an international movement since its inception. However, here michael löwy focuses mainly on the Paris surrealist group, initially around André Breton, but which continued its...
View ArticleJudges in TikTok case seem ready to discount First Amendment
Earlier this year, despite widespread protest, President Joe Biden signed legislation forcing TikTok’s owner “to sell it or face a nationwide prohibition in the United States”.
View ArticleThe political beginnings of AMLO, the Mexican politician who did not give up
We review some of the key moments in the political life of Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), from his beginnings until the 2006 presidential election. AMLO concluded his presidential term on...
View ArticleThe U.S. privately encouraged Israel to escalate in Lebanon
POLITICO reports that U.S. officials Brett McGurk and Amos Hochstein, an IDF veteran, told Israeli officials they agreed with the plan to escalate.
View ArticleIsraeli Nuclear Weapons: Risks, Consequences and Disarmament
Despite the policy of ambiguity around Israeli nuclear weapons, it is clear that Israel’s nuclear arsenal poses a significant risk for humanitarian catastrophe in the Middle East and it should take...
View ArticleIn first speech since release, Assange says imprisonment set ‘dangerous...
"I am not free today because the system worked," said Assange. "I am free today because after years of incarceration I pleaded guilty to journalism."
View ArticleRising costs but no pay rise: U.S. workers fight back
As the presidential election closes in, Jamal Elaheebocus reports on working class strike actions across the USA.
View ArticleTwenty years too many for Simón Trinidad
Human rights organizations launch an international campaign to return Colombian peace negotiator Simon Trinidad back to his home country after being imprisoned in a U.S. supermax prison for over 20 years.
View Article‘Western press obscured the sheer terror of what Israel had carried out’
CounterSpin interview with Mohamad Bazzi on Lebanon pager attacks.
View ArticleIsrael’s history of aggression against Lebanon
Israel’s latest murderous assault on Lebanon is part of a recurring pattern of imperialist aggression.
View ArticleMarx’s theory of value: Collapse, AI and Petro
A site called Marxism and Collapse (M&C) has conducted a ‘dialogue’ with an AI model called Genesis Zero (GZ) that includes “an expansion and refutation” of Marx’s theory of value. The human voice...
View ArticleOn Adam Hanieh’s Crude Capitalism
Andy Higginbottom reviews Adam Hanieh’s crucial new book, Crude Capitalism.
View ArticleA walk along the Baiyangdian Lake in the Xiong’an new area: The Fortieth...
On 1 October 1949, the People’s Republic of China was established. Seventy-five years into its revolutionary process, China has made rapid advances while still facing many challenges.
View ArticleThe Western media helped create these horrors in the Middle East
All the mass media personnel who’ve been lying and manipulating for Israel helped pave the way to this.
View ArticleThe stagnation of the world economy
The fact that the world economy has slowed down since the financial crisis of 2008 is beyond dispute.
View Article“Loot: How Israel Stole Palestinian Property”– book review
Adam Raz has made an important addition to the study of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in this detailed volume containing original research.
View ArticleLeonard Peltier’s 80th birthday statement released
Greetings All, On this Wrongful Conviction Day, Leonard Peltier, the longest-serving Indigenous political prisoner, is incarcerated in lockdown-modified operations conditions at USP Coleman I, operated...
View ArticleWe’ve solved the housing crisis before. We can do it again
Pierre Trudeau made housing an instrument of economic justice. Fifty years later his son remade it as an engine of inequality.
View ArticleIsrael’s impunity endangers us all
The West's failure to bring Israel to justice for its genocide in Gaza has emboldened it to attack Lebanon—and brought the region to the brink of all-out war.
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