Archive | January, 2026

The following is from the news roundup during the 15 January livestream. Watch the entire episode here. Israel continues to kill and injure Palestinians across the Gaza Strip while the Israeli blockade remains firmly in place, despite nearly 100 days since the so-called ceasefire was agreed upon in October 2025. Israeli attacks killed at least […]

The annual ritual of sanitizing Martin Luther King Jr. serves to obscure his radical anti-war politics, which are urgently needed to challenge U.S. imperialism.

The intensified bombardment of Somalia and the assault on Somali communities in Minnesota are not separate policies.

On December 18, 2025, the White House issued an executive order titled “Ensuring American Space Superiority.”

On his way to meet Joseph Stalin in July 1941, Harry Hopkins landed just out of range of German guns on a Moscow city airfield which, later, stretched a few hundred metres from my kitchen window.

Thomas Bass shows how insistence that nuclear power is a safe answer to energy needs is contradicted by the reality of the Fukushima disaster’s aftermath, finds Elaine Graham-Leigh.

Shaking the World: Reports from Revolutionary Venezuela is a new biweekly column by Cira Pascual Marquina for MR Online, offering frontline analysis of imperialism, popular power, and revolutionary struggle in Venezuela. There are moments when geopolitics stops being an abstraction and becomes something you feel in your body. In Caracas, January 3 was one of […]

As Kwame Nkrumah used to say, ‘forward ever, backward never’.

Part Three of a series. Plastics are a delivery system for 16,000 potentially toxic chemicals.

U.S. suspends immigrant visas from 75 nations, including Brazil, Egypt, Thailand, and Somalia, under “public charge” rules.

The drums of protest and calls to boycott the 2026 FIFA World Cup are beating louder in the United States.

Increasing repression against pro-Palestine students is happening now—we must stop it

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

Vijay Prashad offers six points to make sense of the situation in Iran amid protests, violence, and threats of military intervention from Washington.

The Oglala Sioux Tribe confirmed that ICE is holding four Oglala Lakota people who were arrested near the Little Earth housing complex in the East Phillips neighborhood.

Western claims are contradicted by empirical evidence.

This week in working class history.

On Monday, the Board of Directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) voted to dissolve the 58-year-old organization. The action follows the elimination of all federal funding for the agency by Congress, on the demand of the Trump White House, earlier this year.

In the year marking his centenary, the life and thought of Fidel Castro must continue to be an integral part of Cuban classrooms, not as distant history but as a living reference.

Why Venezuela demands a deeper analysis of U.S. imperialism.