Archive | March, 2026

Sri Lanka has declared Wednesdays a holiday and started rationing fuel because of the Ramadan War.

This interview with Henri Lefebvre was conducted for the French Communist Party (PCF) journal La Nouvelle Critique in 1979. As the interview shows, Lefebvre’s renewed engagement with the PCF was neither nostalgic nor opportunistic but grounded in his conviction that Marxism required continual theoretical renegotiation if it was to remain capable of grasping contemporary reality.

At stake is U.S. capacity to use global finance as a weapon of war.

The government won on most of its charges, including convicting defendants for moving a box of radical zines.

Three recent reports provide the gory details about massive and growing wealth inequality in Canada.

Militarization is increasing, transforming the Arctic from a once largely peaceful “exceptional” region into an additional front in Cold War Two, and a new arena for U.S. imperial ambition.

Tennessee’s claim of being “tough on crime” means racialized policing and incarceration, and profit making off of marginalized people.

Wastewater handling varies by facility.

Anyone who cares about humanity should be deeply concerned.

Since the beneficiaries of the oil price rise will be immediately holding their windfall profits quite substantially as bank deposits that create no direct demand for goods and services, while the losers from inflation will have to curtail their total demand for goods and services in real terms, such an inflation will have a depressing effect on the level of world aggregate demand, and hence will cause a recession in the world economy.

Mexico’s president reiterates Support with Cuba and confirms continued oil shipments despite logistical challenges.

Modern environmental crises are not accidental byproducts of economic activity but expressions of a structural contradiction embedded within capitalism’s organization.

Re-reading Rodney, Nkrumah, and Mbembe in the age of data capitalism.

Report also reveals racial disparities.

Saudi Arabia is trying to avoid damage from the war on Iran by diverting oil exports from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea through its East-West pipeline. This scheme however will fail at least as long as it takes part in that war.

The Spanish government condemned this Saturday’s attack on a health center in Lebanon, which it described as “a flagrant and unacceptable violation of international humanitarian law,” and urged that such acts be investigated because hospitals “are never military objectives.”

For Paki Wieland (1944-2026), who fought the cruelty of U.S. imperialism all her adult life.

Organizers are working to have demonstrations take place throughout England, and it’s something that tenants and activists in the United States and other countries can learn from.

The Cuban president links ongoing blackouts to U.S. energy blockade.

The U.S. is careening towards economic and military disaster, a moment when the Black radical tradition is missing but badly needed.