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California’s megadrought and the fight for socialism
The history of California in the capitalist era is as mythic as the American Dream itself. From around the world, countless workers have emigrated to the “Golden State” in search of a better life.
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‘The Last G7’: Satirical cartoon mocking bloc’s attempt to suppress China goes viral
A Chinese cartoonist’s political satire, which mocked the Group of Seven (G7) members that attempt to suppress China, went viral on Chinese social media on Sunday, when the G7 summit was underway in Cornwall, the UK.
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Book review: Roland Boer – Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners
Socialism with Chinese Characteristics challenges the simplistic mutually exclusive dualistic lens through which socialism in China is often viewed and judged.
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U.S. blockade on Cuba causes record losses during coronavirus pandemic
CUBA’S economy lost more than $9 billion (£6.5bn) amid the coronavirus pandemic last year, due to the impact of the six decade-long U.S. blockade, government officials said on Thursday.
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Outrage at ProPublica tax leaks underscores their importance
The report doesn’t show illegal activity; that’s what makes it so damning.
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Volcano vs. volcano
On the anniversary of his birth, we recall the volcanic strength Ernesto Guevara carried within, already evident in the young man who met Fidel in Mexico.
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Celebrating Pride Month: Honoring the movement to end discrimination against LGBTQ people amid record-breaking year for anti-trans laws
June is Pride Month–a time set aside to honor the Stonewall uprising, which launched the movement to end discriminatory laws against LGBTQ people–and to remember the many important cultural and legislative victories since that pivotal summer in 1969.
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What does Biden’s summit spree tell us about the future of U.S. empire?
Joe Biden took part in several key international meetings over the last week covering a wide range of issues but with one key goal in mind: intensify the new Cold War with China and construct a global front towards this end.
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Nicaragua’s political opposition as organized crime
Despite numerous reports in international media to the contrary, none of the people arrested had been selected by any of Nicaragua’s political alliances or parties as possible candidates for the upcoming general election on November 7th this year.
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Lessons from Eldridge Cleaver and the Black Panther Party
“Revolutionary or Death” is the 2020 biography written about former Black Panther Party (BPP) Minister of Information Leroy “Eldridge” Cleaver.
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Rob Wallace on the political economy of pandemics
Jair Bolsonaro, Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and such leaders across the world are malicious miscreants, convening necropolitical death cults. But the alternatives, also tied to capitalist sociopathy, are only a little bit better. Our “progressives” worship at the altar of the circuits of capital.
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Paint Your Town Red: How Preston Took Back Control and Your Town Can Too
In this timely book, Matthew Brown and Rhian E. Jones explore new forms of democratic collectivism across the UK, writes Hilary Wainwright.
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The Kisan [Farmers’] Commune in India
On 26 June 2021, tens of thousands of Indian farmers will gather in front of the government offices in India’s twenty-eight states.
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From G7 to NATO meetings, imperialist powers turn more aggressive towards China
In both the crucial summits of global north nations, political leaders led by U.S. president Joe Biden, made sweeping and unsubstantiated charges against China.
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The Techfare state: The ‘new’ face of neoliberal state regulation
recent article in the New York Times takes aim at ‘How Big Tech Won the Pandemic’, highlighting how in the last year alone, Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook posted a combined revenue of more than $1.2 trillion.
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Walter Rodney’s death records to be amended and children’s books placed in schools
The martyred revolutionary’s assassination has finally been acknowledged by the Guyana state, and his works will become part of the educational curriculum.
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America’s soup-brained president says the U.S. never interferes in other countries’ elections
The U.S. is far and away the single most egregious offender in the world on this front, which is largely why it is perceived around the world as a greater threat to democracy than any other government.
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Small State but big questions
A week ago Saxony-Anhalt voted! The media prediction – a neck-and-neck race – was cock-eyed! But outside Sachsen-Anhalt (in German), did anyone really give a damn? Yes, some did!
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Grenfell Anniversary: Activist rapper Lowkey takes aim at Boris Johnson and UK neoliberalism
Four years after the Grenfell Tower fire, rapper and activist Lowkey revisits the tragic fire that tore through the North Kensington tower block on June 14, 2017—killing 72 low-income residents of housing owned by real-estate moguls.
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Breaking the Stasis: The Left writes a new chapter in Peru
On June 10, 2021, the National Office of Electoral Processes (ONPE) published the results of the second round of elections to elect the new president of Peru, with the winner being Pedro Castillo, the candidate for the leftist party Peru Libre (PL).