Archive | January, 2026

The Trump administration is using ICE to wage a brutal, racist war on the working class, but mainstream media is desperate to put the blame for ICE’s current murderous rampage squarely on Donald Trump.

Weaponizing the World’s Oil Trade is the Bedrock of the U.S. Rules-Based Order.

From ICE raids in Minneapolis to National Guard boots on the streets, the U.S. is seeing the tools of foreign intervention repurposed at home—a stark reminder that imperial violence knows no borders.

The fact that the use of AI would destroy jobs is thus indubitable, with even Elon Musk conceding this eventuality.

Amid all the bombast and threats over Greenland in his Davos speech, U.S. President Trump made a series of boasts about the success of the U.S. economy, which was, of course, down to him.

India’s liberalisation beginning in the 1990s has led to a steady decline in manufacturing. To reverse this trend and expand productive employment, industrial policy must address structural issues of dependence and inequality.

Robert Longa is a founding member of the Fuerza Patriótica Alexis Vive, a Venezuelan grassroots organization promoting communal construction. Based in Caracas’ 23 de Enero barrio, Longa has played a central role in building El Panal Commune and in advancing a strategic vision of communal power as the backbone of the Bolivarian Revolution. This conversation […]

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò (OT): There is a deep and abiding ethical impulse under the political commitments that Marxism is associated with: socialism, communism and the fight against capitalism. When you ask people who are swimming in one of those seas what they’re up to and why, they give what sounds to me—as an analytically trained moral philosopher—like moral explanations: they think there’s something wrong with capitalism, something inappropriate about the way the system treats people.

In a statement, Springsteen said he wrote the song on Saturday following Pretti’s killing and dedicated it to “the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.”

The self-appointed U.S. emperor’s ambitions go well beyond Gaza, as evidenced in his attack on Venezuela and ongoing attempt to take over its riches and his advanced plans to occupy Greenland.

Just before the holidays last year, on Dec. 18, the Department of Health and Human Services announced regulatory proposals to suspend hospitals from providing gender affirming treatments to trans youth patients.

Michael Parenti, the Marxist author and scholar, died on January 24, 2026 at the age of ninety-two. This article originally appeared in Monthly Review 45, no. 5 (October 1993). It has been frequently noted that IQ examinations, while professing to measure innate intelligence, are riddled with racial, gender, and class biases. Thus a low-income, inner-city youth, […]

“Systemic change is needed ‘from the cradle to the grave’ of plastic production, use, and disposal,” said the lead author, calling for “ambitious action from governments and industry transparency.”

“It is, ready, willing, and able to rapidly fulfill its mission, with speed and violence,” he said.

Minnesota Deputy Solicitor General: ‘(We have) very serious concerns that Pretti’s alleged firearm was not handled properly’.

Slovakia’s PM Robert Fico reportedly expressed shock at Trump’s mental state after a private meeting, contradicting his public praise of the U.S. president.

I have now been in Caracas for 48 hours and the contrast between what I have seen, and what I had read in the mainstream media, could not be more stark.

The deportation machine was built to run no matter what happens in Congress. 

Exclusive reporting by Drop Site News exposes the Trump administration’s plans for a governance structure that ‘deradicalizes’ Gaza’s population, excludes Palestinians from decision-making.

From mass firings and climate research funding cuts to the rollback of environmental protections and a retreat from international pledges, Earth.Org examines some of U.S. President Donald Trump’s most consequential actions since his inauguration on January 20, 2025, and what they mean for Americans and the world.