Archive | July, 2025

Brazil’s collaboration with China has been flourishing. President Lula traveled to Beijing in May for his third bilateral meeting with China’s president, Xi Jinping, since returning to the presidency in 2023, declaring that “our relationship with China will be indestructible.”

In January 2024 Taiwan’s current President Lai Ching-te won the election against two other candidates. (Taiwan has no run off elections.)

The Canadian branch of B’nai B’rith has accused author, activist, and political candidate Yves Engler of genocide denial.

India needs to shed the comfort of diplomacy and not concede the space it has fought so hard to occupy, in response to Trump’s message to U.S. tech giants “to stop hiring in India”.

For the first time in decades, a regional power was militarily assaulted during active negotiations; not for escalating tensions, but rather, in spite of de-escalating them.

France’s nuclear weapons stockpile has remained stable over the past decade and contains approximately 290 warheads for delivery by ballistic missile submarines and aircraft.

A foreign national spoke out against a country he accused of killing his family. After fleeing that country to escape persecution, the U.S. government arrested him and tried to deport him.

As climate collapse accelerates, its unequal impacts reveal the class divisions at its core.

Today, three and a half decades since the parody trial that sent him to the firing squad, Ceausescu seems to take an extraordinary revenge from the counterrevolutionaries who overthrew his power.

As western pundits, politicians and celebrities suddenly pivot to denouncing Israel’s genocidal atrocities after two years of silence, it’s hard to believe that just a few weeks ago we were being told that saying “death to the IDF” is a hate crime.

In 2022, Nazi-saluter Elon Musk opened his brand-new Tesla plant in the East-German town of Grünheide. Ever since, locals came to know that working at Tesla is a backbreaking job.

“The political tradition I grew up in emphasised the importance of supporting the socialist states, and always prioritised the struggle against imperialism, colonialism and racism.” – Carlos Martinez

In the wake of Frantz Fanon’s 100th birthday, Sam Chian offers a close reading of The Wretched of the Earth, arguing that Fanon’s primary intervention lies in his class analysis of colonial societies. He examines his critique of the national bourgeoisie and the urban working class, and his insistence on the revolutionary potential of the rural peasantry and radical intellectuals. Chian suggest that for Fanon, the social composition of the anti-colonial struggle decisively shapes the post-colonial order, and that the socialist path he outlines remains structurally constrained but politically urgent.

Jeremy Corbyn’s strength lies in his ability to inspire a movement, but translating this into a viable party requires overcoming the same hegemonic forces that destroyed his Labour leadership.

A communal leader and mayoral candidate explains how the July 27 elections could mark a turn toward women’s leadership and people’s power in her township.

This aggressive use of public lands and services, including the use of millions of dollars in FEMA funds, was carried out not in order to respond to the real needs of Floridians, but in order to wage war on immigrants in a purposefully theatrical and cruel way.

An eight-day strike by municipal employees in Philadelphia disrupted the operations of one of the largest cities in the United States amid systematic attacks on the interests and status of working people.

Against Trump’s threat to raise tariffs against imports from China, the Chinese government announced a temporary moratorium on the export of certain rare earth elements to the U.S.

U.S.-led sanctions have functioned as ‘silent killers’ in countries such as Iraq, Syria, and Venezuela.

Rosa Luxemburg (born Rozalia Luksenburg; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was an important thinker and activist. She was a socialist and Marxist philosopher from Poland. She also worked hard for peace and against war.