Archive | December, 2025

‘Anti-Communism Week’ is a legal blueprint for crushing dissent. By labeling social justice activism as terrorism and empowering a new national task force, the state is preparing for the most intense domestic political crackdown in decades.

From the heart of the U.S. colony, a geographer and activist explains that Washington’s “new” security strategy looks a great deal like the old one.

Over the years, the Center has trained thousands of popular educators. Marilín explains how the educators often find themselves in complex situations. “The Christians see us as communists, and the communists see us as Christians—though some of the latter recognize we are more communist than they are.”

We are joined by David I. Backer, associate professor of education policy at Seton Hall University, to discuss his new book: As Public as Possible: Radical Finance for America’s Schools (The New Press, 2025). The right-wing attack on education has cut deep. In response, millions of Americans have rallied to defend their cherished public schools. Backer’s incisive book asks whether choosing between our embattled status quo and the stingy privatized vision of the right is the only path forward.

Some of David Graeber’s basic assumptions about money and public provisioning limit what the left can imagine and accomplish.

An analysis of the Asia regions division of labor, uneven development, and regional dynamics drawing from Tricontinental Asia’s latest intervention.

The choices we make in the coming years will determine whether the global economy continues down a path of extreme concentration or moves toward shared prosperity.

After the Trump Regime Hijacks a Venezuelan Vessel, Iran hits back by Confiscating an Oil Tanker, the Phoenix, under Cook Islands Flag.

The relatively empty roads have not brought relief, as measures taken to control emissions fail to show results, partly due to weather conditions.

If they had accused Yves of being too progressive, too bold, too blunt, I would understand, but the reasons they give make me suspect that they haven’t read his books and articles.

The immanent dialectic of the ancient Greek materialist philosopher, Epicurus (341-270 BCE), helped inspire the nineteenth-century ideas of Karl Marx, forming the subject of his doctoral dissertation.

If the maintenance of full employment is impossible under capitalism, then so is the maintenance of a welfare state.

States Parties to the Genocide Convention, as well as other influential states, must take concrete and immediate steps to prevent the continuation of genocide in Gaza, including halting the supply of weapons and military support to Israel that are used to commit violations, and reviewing existing political and security cooperation in line with their obligation to prevent, and not contribute to, genocide.

The Indian state of Kerala has eradicated extreme poverty through clear public policy, decentralized planning, and the leadership of its cooperative movement.

Study shows that the hotter climate regime will last centuries, not decades.

Trump bragged about the operation, calling it the “largest” tanker ever taken and adding, “we keep it, I guess.”

This is the implementation of the Trump administration’s avowed policy of criminalizing dissent—in the words of the NSPM-7 decree, outlawing “organized campaigns of…radicalization…designed to…change or direct policy outcomes”—and as such is another giant step towards authoritarianism.

Leaked files reviewed by The Grayzone show the U.S. gov’t covertly funded Nepalese youth groups in the run-up to a violent coup. The “Gen Z” shadow army mobilized as the U.S. sought to neutralize Chinese and Indian influence over Kathmandu–now controlled by a leader chosen by an informal social media poll.

Chris Nineham on Starmer taking authoritarianism to new heights.

Europe celebrated defeating fascism in 1945 but immediately resumed its colonial control of the Global South. Now, eighty years later, the West is bankrupt financially and morally and is discovering that colonialism’s bill has finally come due.