Archive | February, 2026

Imperial violence was not invented by Trump. It has been an integral part of this nation’s relationships with the rest of the world from its beginning. However, Trump is more direct in saying out loud what former presidents hesitated to acknowledge, instead either keeping it hidden from public view, justifying it as self-defense, or employing subtler means of intimidation.

Neither the U.S. nor Israel has even attempted to hide the fact that this aggression is being carried out to facilitate a regime change that they would find amenable to their goals of total domination of the entire region of West Asia militarily, economically and politically, and to deprive the Palestinian people under occupation and facing an ongoing genocide of support for their capacity to resist and free themselves of this unlawful occupation.

A POLITICO-EPISTEMOLOGICAL EXASPERATION

The lights are going out in Cuba–and people are organizing their lives around the outage schedule.

Cold War II is transforming the global system, with two competing visions: The U.S. seeks to revive colonialism and imperialist spheres of influence. China wants a multipolar order based on peace, sovereign equality, and win-win cooperation. Compare speeches by their top officials.

In a 1952 song entitled “Bye Bye Big Brass,” anti-war singer Woody Guthrie dreamed up a scenario in which he is shipped off to the Korean War and, rather than kill a Chinese soldier he encounters, sits and talks with him by a campfire, hides out with him, and fights back against the U.S. Army with him.

Much of organized labor in the United States seems to go merrily on its way as we enter the second year of Trump’s second term. Many unions are dutifully hiding in the weeds and still hoping to go unnoticed.

The sociologist James Petras died on January 17, 2026, at the age of eighty-nine. This article originally appeared in Monthly Review 51, no. 6 (November 1999). Frances Stonor Saunders, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (London: Granta Books), £20. This book provides a detailed account of the ways in which the […]

As a new mood in the Global South advances, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently urged Europe to embrace its colonial past and defend Western values against the communist menace.

Guano, global inequality, and the long history of shifting environmental costs from centres of power to distant and expendable regions.

Lenin stated that he became a Marxist in the rural town of Samara, south of Kazan.

We publish the collective interview with the New York group Cycling x Solidarity NYC, inspired by the similar group in Chicago.

Since 2023, the Israeli army has systematically targeted hundreds of journalists in Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran.

Brazil’s left, headed by the ruling Workers’ Party (PT), has long been a leading voice in Latin America against U.S. interventionism. When the United States launched its military action to kidnap Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2025, the Brazilian government and the PT joined a global chorus of shock and denunciation of this […]

The MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY unpicks the two principal ways in which capitalists maximise the difference between what they put into the workplace and workforce – and the much greater profits they get out.

When nations with well-resourced intelligence gathering services, like the United Kingdom and Australia, choose to shield their citizens from the very real impacts of planetary warming and ecological disruption, they risk aligning themselves with climate denialism efforts like those occurring in the United States, such as current National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard’s decision to excise any mention of climate change from the spy community’s most recent Annual Threat Assessment.

As a key pro-Israel powerbroker, Peter Mandelson and his protégé toppled Jeremy Corbyn, installed Keir Starmer, and reshaped Labour. Now his arrest threatens to shake British politics to its core.

A MARXIST RESPONSE TO VIVEK CHIBBER’S MATERIALIST SOCIALISM.

The National Endowment for Democracy’s president, Damon Wilson, bragged to a House committee of his group’s aggressive efforts to spark unrest in Iran, including by smuggling Starlink terminals and fashioning anti-Iran narratives for the media.

Tell me if this sounds familiar: Your city entered into an agreement with a developer to build a massive data center on the outskirts of town.