Archive | December, 2025

If an Olympic high jump athlete claimed improved performance by continually lowering the bar, he would be banned for life for cheating; if a school principal claimed that the percentage of failures had fallen sharply to zero from 40 percent, and this was found to arise from lowering the pass mark from 50 out of 100 to 2 out of 100, the principal would be sacked.

It was no magic wand-the authorities took several tough steps over the years to achieve this miracle.

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been on an emotional roller coaster ever since they returned to capitalism.

Victor Grossman, born Stephen Wechsler in New York City in 1928, died in Berlin on Wednesday, December 17. His Berlin Bulletin appeared regularly on MR Online, and in 2019 Monthly Review Press published his memoir A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee. Victor was a good friend of Monthly Review for over thirty years, who […]

The Green Party of England and Wales is attracting new members in unprecedented numbers and achieving polling percentages that would have seemed impossible a year ago. However, tensions are building behind the scenes over the party’s economic programme. On December 12, 2025, just over 3 months since Zack Polanski’s election as party leader – the […]

Allowing allegedly local broadcast firms to acquire even more stations—in markets where they already have stations, and in new cities—will put control over news in still fewer, more corporate hands. And it will decrease the numbers of local journalists reporting on communities they actually live in.

Two weeks after elections in Honduras, no winner has yet been declared yet. As the irregularities grow, both the Liberal Party and LIBRE have denounced electoral fraud is being committed in favor of the far-right candidate.

The European Union is trying to eliminate sources of information that do not confirm with its official interpretation of real world events.

The New York Times has published a major exposé purporting to explain how Jeffrey Epstein rose to the top of the financial and political world, but it ignores one key topic: Israel.

While industrialization remains a top priority for Global South countries, debt-driven austerity, corporate dominance, wars, and sanctions keep many poorer nations locked into dependency and underdevelopment.

On Dec. 16, the Trump administration announced a “total and complete blockade of all sanctioned oil tankers going into, and out of, Venezuela.”

‘Intifada’ has a range of meanings, and the police must not be allowed to decide what it means themselves, explain Shabbir Lakha and Michael Lavalette.

Australian officials are still learning about the individuals who carried out the Bondi Beach attack, killing more than a dozen Jews celebrating Hanukkah in Sydney.

“Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the History of South America,” Trump wrote on social media this Tuesday, December 16, adding that “it will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before.”

Chinese leaders have described this strategy as “containment, encirclement and suppression”–a description borne out by the expanding bases, bomber patrols and alliance commitments now taking shape across the Pacific.

It’s clear that Trump hates Somalis. 

Civil Defense Spokesperson Mahmoud Basal said Tuesday that winter rains flooded 90 percent of tents in the war-torn enclave, leaving thousands of families without shelter.

An uprising against Daniel Noboa’s far-right agenda exposes how Washington fuels violence across Latin America.

The president highlighted that 22,110 grassroots assemblies were held in workplaces to elect, through qualitative debate incorporating the ideas of millions of workers, 66,330 workplace delegates.

Debunking the tired old Myth that “Communism works in Theory and Not in Practice”