Archive | October, 2025

Forensic examination of 120 Palestinian bodies show ‘clear evidence’ of torture and possible organ theft.

Chávez’s “Strike at the Helm” speech has been described as the masterful route to building a participatory and protagonist democracy, the 21st-century political model that is burying what Chavez referred to as the “failed and exhausted bourgeois representative democracy.”

Modotti has been an important figure in feminist and women’s studies because of her genius as an artist, her independent life and her unwillingness to subordinate herself to men (including Weston).

An interview with historian Bryan Palmer about his trilogy of books on the continuing legacy of colonialism in Canada.

The effects of climate change are disproportionately felt by the working class, with billions of workers forced to toil in conditions of excessive heat.

Cellmates use cellphones to uncover ‘America’s deadliest prison system.’

We have all the evidence that the solutions are scalable, and [if we act decisively] we would become winners in terms of modernity, security, peace and health, but also in terms of equity.

ON October 11 in New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi advised Indian farmers to grow more “export-oriented crops”.

In not quite one year since the ceasefire deal in Lebanon, Israel has broken the ceasefire 4,600 times. It has killed hundreds of people, including infants, demolished tens of thousands of homes and annexed five areas of Lebanon. It was supposed to withdraw completely.

A Trinidadian labor activist talks about his government’s submissive position to the US in the face of the imperialist buildup against Venezuela, and the correlation of forces in the region.

FROM ANDOR TO A NEW HOPE

Marxism represents the ripest product of humanity’s finest intellectual traditions.

The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas brokered by Donald Trump has come into effect.

Movement leader compares initiative to the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.

We speak with Caroline Levine, Ryan Professor of the Humanities in the Department of Literatures in English at Cornell University, about her important book The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis (Princeton University Press, 2023). Building on the theory developed in her award-winning book, Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network, Levine’s The Activist Humanist redirects the critical capacities of formalist literary study to discover and mobilize the democratic potential of political forms thought by many on the left to be irredeemably exclusive, violent, and anti-democratic.

Israel is so evil it’s actually hard to wrap your mind around it.

So AI technology could eventually deliver higher productivity growth if it manages to shed human labour sufficiently.

The Milei-Trump meeting secured a USD 20 billion financial bailout for Argentina’s unstable economy. Trump made future aid conditional on Milei winning the upcoming elections.

Unless there is going beyond neo-liberalism, which is necessary for overcoming the crisis it has caused, even a political defeat of the fascistic elements in elections, will only cause a temporary setback to them; they will come back to power again, as Donald Trump has done in the U.S., because the conjuncture that gave rise to their ascent would not have been overcome.

The criminal case of ex-France President Nicolas Sarkozy touches the historical tensions between Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya and Western powers, particularly France. In a recent development, a Paris court sentenced Sarkozy to five years in prison for criminal conspiracy, marking a historic conviction for a former French president. The charges? They are allegations that the Libyan […]