Archive | February, 2025

Reading and popular literacy programmes have played an important role in revolutionary processes, from the Mexican, Chinese, and Russian revolutions in the early twentieth century to today.

A science fiction novel about the future of nature and technology reviewed by Ian Parker.

U.S. President Donald Trump has reiterated his controversial proposal to take control of Gaza, saying he is committed to “buying and owning” the war-ravaged enclave.

February 4, 2025 marked the thirty-third anniversary of the attempted seizure of power by Hugo Chávez in Venezuela.

While deportation of non-citizens found to be in violation of U.S. Immigration Law is a routine procedure, this time it was different and brazen.

In a globalized world the innovation ability of a country can be measured by the number of global patents it files.

Student suspensions, faculty purges and an all-encompassing surveillance state have become the norm as Columbia falls silent after last spring’s anti-genocide protests.

The working class is facing a period of grave instability–faced with the challenge of managing rising prices of basic goods, stagnant or even deflated wages, and a future that is increasingly insecure in more ways than one.

With federal funding paused to USAID, pro-Western media outlets from Ukraine to Nicaragua are panhandling for donations, and a multi-billion dollar regime change apparatus is in panic mode.

Trump’s return when we already see a world at war, breathtaking inequality and climate catastrophe confirms Engles’ famous dichotomy, writes MATT WILLGRESS

In a statement issued on 6 February 2025, the South African Communist Party (SACP) condemns U.S President Donald Trump’s threats against South Africa and defends the country’s national sovereignty.

The people are living in a situation of chaos and despair, deprived of security and essential resources such as housing, food and medicine. The Congolese people, who have long suffered the horrors of war, bloody conflict and the atrocities of colonization, are plunging into an even darker period.

During Netanyahu’s visit, Trump dropped Washington’s sugar coating of Israel’s 15-month genocidal destruction of Gaza. This was always about ethnic cleansing

In a blog post published on February 4, Google updated its public “ethical guidelines” regarding AI, removing any references to the use of such advanced technologies solely for peaceful purposes. For years, the controversial company was adamant that it would “never pursue high-tech that could cause or are likely to cause overall harm”.

The commune as both means and end in Venezuela’s socialist project.

Michael Burawoy was struck while walking inside the crosswalk near Children’s Fairyland.

In this interview, Mamadou Koné, curator at the Musée historique des forces armées du Sénégal, looks back at the long history of the Senegalese riflemen, the African troops employed by the French army during the colonial period.

“I watched Trump’s joint press conference with Netanyahu, in utter disbelief. Not that the idea, or indeed the practice, of ethnic cleansing of Palestine is new. But at that press conference the mask has fallen. Recently, fascism has been on the march everywhere, but that press conference seemed to herald an age of naked fascism.”

Since the beginning of the process of colonization and conquest of the territories that are commonly called the United States, the idea of it being ​​the land of abundance and opportunity has been promoted.

Doctors Without Borders notes significant increase in settler violence and systematic hindering of healthcare services.