Archive | January, 2026

“I can’t begin to tell you how insane this is,” said one critic. “He did not inform Congress but he’s saying he informed the oil companies.”

José Antonio Kast’s resounding victory in Chile’s runoff election last December is bound to have a profound influence on the country. Two radical variants of Pinochetism—one led by Kast and another, even more extreme, led by Johannes Kaiser—converged to form a solid neofascist force, joined by the standard-bearer of a political fiction called the “democratic […]

“The last three years are all likely to have exceeded 1.4C and we expect 2026 will be the fourth year in succession to do this,” said Adam Scaife, who leads the team behind the Met Office’s global forecast for 2026.

Beijing is taking notice.

What has occurred is a grave violation of international law and of Venezuela’s sovereignty.

“The ‘Trump corollary’ to the Monroe Doctrine—applied in recent hours with violent force over the skies of Caracas—is the single greatest threat to peace and prosperity that the Americas confront today,” said Progressive International.

It remains unclear if Vice President Delcy Rodríguez will follow the Constitutional path of presidential succession or if the PSUV will instead continue to demand the return of President Maduro—a formula that many consider highly improbable—or whether both of these options will be pursued simultaneously.

The BJP-led government has just got parliament to pass a legislation permitting up to 100 percent foreign equity-ownership in India’s insurance sector.

Vice President of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez, denounced an “unprecedented” U.S. military aggression against Venezuela that culminated in the “illegal kidnapping” of President Nicolás Maduro and First Fighter Lady Cilia Flores.

Monthly Review and MR Online contributor Chris Gilbert recorded this video near the Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, on January 3, 2026. We post it here with his permission. —The Editors

A little after 2 am Venezuela time on January 3, 2026, in violation of Article 2 of the United Nations Charter, the United States began an attack on several sites in the country, including Caracas, the capital. Residents awoke to loud noises and flashes, as well as large helicopters in the sky. Videos began to […]

As we enter the new year amid wars and deepening economic and environmental crises, we must turn frustration into a politics of possibility. Our New Development Theory sets out a path forward.

Restructuring the agriculture system to grow crops and raise livestock that thrive in a drier climate is the first logical step to reducing water consumption.

Jason Garcia, a veteran investigative reporter in Florida, reports on the ongoing scandals in the Sunshine State.

Ellis Simani found that over a thousand nonprofits had removed or minimized language tied to race, inequity and historically disadvantaged communities in their mission statements, with some also scrubbing DEI language from their websites, job titles and, in some cases, even the group’s name.

In 2025, there was notable momentum in both the Democratic and Republican parties toward substantive change in U.S. policy on Palestine.

He’s vowed to press Pretoria to “end” its genocide case against Israel.

On December 11, 2025, the Critical Theory Workshop hosted an online book launch and discussion in celebration of Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?, published by Monthly Review Press. Rockhill was joined in conversation by Ali Kadri and Monthly Review editor John Bellamy Foster, with Jennifer Ponce de León as moderator. A […]