Archive | January, 2026

“Killing Democracy” should at bare minimum be a university textbook, distributed to every institution of higher learning in America.

The IDF has carried out demolitions on both sides of the ‘yellow line,’ the vague boundary that separates the IDF-occupied side of Gaza from the rest of the Strip.

The world is grappling with a host of pressing environmental challenges that demand immediate attention and action. From climate change-induced disasters, biodiversity loss and plastic pollution to the rise of artificial intelligence, the 16 biggest environmental problems of 2026 paint a stark picture of the urgent need for climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Will Beaman joins Billy Saas & Scott Ferguson to discuss the enduring influence of David Graeber’s debt-centered work in the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s election to Mayor of New York City. Will and Scott unpack their jointly authored essay, “The Utopia of Refusal: David Graeber, Debt & the Left Monetary Imagination,” which is the latest in a series of pieces by the Money on the Left Editorial Collective to agitate for credit-centered experimentation through and beyond the Mamdani mayoralty.

The importance of revolutionary democracy is manifested in two critical axes of the socialist economy: the planning of economic development and the distribution of wealth.

Delcy Rodriguez outlines three strategic objectives, including rescuing President Maduro.

A plot to kill Burkina Faso’s president, Ibrahim Traoré, and disable a drone base, ahead of a planned foreign military intervention, was thwarted by security forces, while Burkinabes took to the streets sloganeering in support of Traoré.

Solidarity with Palestine tests morality, but solidarity with Venezuela tests politics. The recent U.S. intervention demands a radical left moving from moral outrage to a material confrontation with its own state.

“I just don’t understand how we provide votes for a bill that funds the extent of the depravity,” said Sen. Chris Murphy.

On November 28, 2025, the editors of Theory & Struggle, the journal of the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School in London, interviewed Gabriel Rockhill about his new book Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?, published by Monthly Review Press. Watch a video of the interview below.

Drinking water standards vary widely from state-to-state, which “creates an environmental justice issue, in which certain communities are less protected than others, through no fault of their own,” Udasin noted.

During the International Anti-Fascist Forum in solidarity with Venezuela held by video conference on Thursday, January 8, Maduro Guerra pointed out that the military invasion ordered by U.S. President Donald Trump, in addition to violating all international and even U.S. law, was a crime against humanity and turned Maduro and Flores into “prisoners of war” of an operation aimed at seizing Venezuela’s natural resources.

It was shocking how quickly the psychopaths in power launched their vicious lies about Renée Good—“violent rioter,” “domestic terrorist,” “self-defense”—shot in the face for trying to drive away from ICE.

The gangster state stands poised for another naked breach of international law.

Cuba’s fate will not be decided in editorials or think-tank reports.

The shooting took place just six blocks from where George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis Police in 2020—the event that saw the Black Lives Matter movement explode into riots and protests across the U.S. and the world.

On October 26, 2025, Trump announced that he had signed an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade with Malaysia.

The recent sound of explosions over Venezuela, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, and Nigeria are not merely the spasms by a declining U.S. empire. They are something much more terrifying—the dawning of the age of impunity.

An argument is being put forward, in particular by the European allies of the U.S., to the effect that Nicolas Maduro was an authoritarian ruler, so that no tears need be shed over his removal.

Artificial light may illuminate our cities, but it casts shadows over wildlife, insects, and human health while erasing the stars from our skies. From disrupted ecosystems to sleep loss, the urgent fight to reclaim the night affects everyone.