Archive | December, 2025

MAT COWARD tells how 18th-century scholar and revolutionary democrat Joseph Ritson turned a medieval outlaw into England’s people’s hero—soon to be gracing panto halls around the nation.

Sudan’s Communists hope that their “comrades in the world Communist movement will answer that call,” Saied said, and “do whatever they can to build an international movement to help win peace in Sudan and open the path for our people to decide our own future, free of interference and war.

In the current era in which anti-science ideology, disinformation and ‘the destruction of reason’ are again increasingly being utilized as key components of a broader anti-materialism which reinforces a transition from neoliberalism to neofascism in response to crises of capitalism, Albert Einstein’s ‘Why Socialism?’: The Enduring Relevance of His Classic Essay is timely.

After restoring the France-backed regime of Patrice Talon following a coup, foreign troops have remained in Benin, maintaining control over the Presidential residence and several key government buildings.

They reaffirmed support for President Maduro and the Bolivarian Revolution.

Ten days after right-wing destabilization attempts, Mexico’s leadership has emerged strengthened, securing historic labour and wage agreements, while opposition-backed protests have crumbled under scrutiny, says DAVID RABY.

Leaked training videos and new evidence expose Intellexa as more than just a rogue surveillance company. The Israeli firm stands as a pillar of Tel Aviv’s global cyberwarfare infrastructure, infiltrating phones worldwide through ‘zero-click’ methods, ad-based infections, and covert partnerships with authoritarian governments.

This is the choice in front of us: a future of permanent war and permanent hunger, or a fight for a society where budgets are written to meet human needs, not to guarantee profits for war corporations and the rich.

A Leninist Perspective on Postone and anti-anti-imperialism.

HOW likely is a U.S. war on Venezuela? States across the region are alarmed one is imminent.

Israel is coming apart at the seams, both on a cultural and political basis.

Geopolitics commentator Peter Yang takes a deep dive into America’s chip-war defeat. Washington weaponized the semiconductor stack it built, turning interdependence into containment—and the strategy backfired. Reshoring stalled, allies absorbed the costs, and decoupling isolated the U.S. from markets. China pivoted to survival instead: dominating mature nodes, expanding globally, and building institutions to outlast disruption.

This is the second part of a two-part interview with Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster for Italy’s OttolinaTV. Watch the first part here.

It has become a cliché that award ceremonies serve the award givers more than the laureates.

The AI bubble continues.

From Israel’s occupation and genocide in Palestine, to threats of invasion of Venezuela, the endless proxy war in Ukraine, to military buildup pointing at China–there is one common cause, U.S. imperialism.

Failure to air footage of Israeli soldiers executing unarmed Palestinians shows the corporation’s true bias.

By now, you may have seen the story making the rounds. It’s about a University of Oklahoma student named Samantha Fulnecky who received a zero on a psychology essay, filed a discrimination complaint, and got her trans graduate instructor placed on administrative leave.

The monthly report by human resources firm ADP (Automatic Data Processing) found that U.S. private employers cut 32,000 jobs in the month of November, the latest sign of an accelerating jobs massacre.

The Trump administration added a new feature to the official White House website that lists U.S. news outlets it frames as “fake news,” in an effort to delegitimize reports that take a critical stance toward the government.