Archive | August, 2025

In a wide-ranging interview with Tribune, Jeremy Corbyn discusses his hopes for the new Left party, the potential for coalition building, and his determination to overcome sectarianism on the way to forging a truly democratic form of modern socialism.

Two human rights practitioners used to have hope that Israel could be reformed, but no longer. “Today it is one solid mass of distilled evil,” writes human rights lawyer Michael Sfard.

Donald Trump’s takeover of the Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department is not merely a result of his racist and authoritarian tendencies, nor is it new. It is part and parcel of a history of militarized policing against Black people and a bipartisan consensus promoting racist crime panics, which are often conducted with the help of the Black misleadership class.

There are two reasons for the U.S. tariffs imposed on India: first, India’s refusal to open its agricultural market to U.S. imports; second, India’s refusal to stop purchasing oil from Russia.

This is a time when we need more openness, not less. A policy that would ban Antonio Gramsci should not be approved.

The U.S. Departments of Justice and State announced the increased bounty—from $25 million to $50 million—for information leading to Maduro’s arrest.

ON ISLAMOPHOBIA, DEMOGRAPHICS, AND RADICAL POLITICS.

The state is far from perfect. But it offers a glimpse of what the world could look like when human well-being is prioritised in everyday life.

The accumulation of still growing greenhouse gas emissions in an increasingly unequal world is accelerating planetary heating. This is worsening inequalities, both nationally and internationally.

Of all the issues currently facing humanity, there is none so existential as the climate and environmental crisis. 

Trump’s tariffs intend to keep it that way, while Latin America’s orientation towards Asia, China and the BRICS is correctly pushing in the opposite direction: to a fairer, multipolar world. 

Liberalism likes to wear its Sunday best.

After reaching an agreement with President Trump, David Ellison—the son of the second-richest man in the world, Larry Ellison—has acquired Paramount Global, the media giant that owns CBS News.

Documentary filmmaker Sam Feder on the backlash to trans visibility.

Washington, D.C., is a federal territory (the District of Columbia) and is not part of any state. Under the Home Rule Act of 1973, it has an elected mayor and city council, but Congress retains ultimate authority and can (and regularly does) override local laws and budgets.

A young activist talks about maroon resistance has deep roots in Venezuela, and it resonates with the country’s current communal project.

Western Marxism is not a tradition to be reclaimed—it’s an enemy ideology crafted in the image of empire. Domenico Losurdo’s final intervention is not an invitation to debate, but a call to defect. From critique to combat. From the seminar to the struggle. From the West to the world.

From Eastern Europe to the Middle East, the legacy of the Holocaust has been used to denigrate left anti-fascism and promote the interests of ethno-nationalist establishments. But we should remember who really killed the ‘Judeo-Bolsheviks’ of the Second World War.

Under the Death in Custody Reporting Act, the government is supposed to track how many people die in law enforcement custody—but the data is a mess.

The U.S. climate movement claims to fight for change while systematically silencing radical action. This isn’t resistance. It’s controlled opposition dressed in green.