Archive | April, 2026

The Bolivarian Revolution has generated a dense accumulation of lived political experience. Millions have participated in processes of organization, decision-making, and struggle. They have not only witnessed politics, they have practiced it.

This weekend news broke that the Trump Administration fired members of the National Science Board—an apolitical board of eminent experts charged with advising and providing oversight of the National Science Foundation. These experts serve staggered six-year terms, but on Friday members had their service abruptly terminated in a message signed on behalf of the president. […]

Marx, Surplus Value, and the Structure of Capitalism.

A critical analysis of ongoing social media warfare on Cuba and global African response to a revolutionary experiment under criminal siege.

Across the United States, an intense fight is raging against collaboration with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the Trump administration’s rogue “law enforcement” arm.

Health professionals and researchers working at the intersection of environment and health often bemoan the relative paucity of health considerations in climate policy, with health only recently (since 2023) starting to become more integrated into the formal UN climate negotiations.

This week’s post is a collaboration with Alex Hobson. You can find Alex’s work here: Class Chip. Alex is doing some very creative and interesting work, so please do swing by and give him a follow/subscribe.

Washington is using sanctions and naval power to decide which oil can move and which refineries can buy.

President Donald Trump is looking to eliminate funding in fiscal 2027 for the agency that serves as the primary federal funding source for libraries and museums nationwide.

Prosecutors say that the five broke into Elbit Systems’ premises early on September 8 2025, and caused an estimated €200,000 (£173K) worth of damage to the arms manufacturer by smashing up office equipment with axes.

The risks inherent in that possibility of closure are now painfully realized, but they were not factored in before.

‘It was the worst possible way to end the winter that was already worse than normal.’

Karl Marx eagerly devoured writings on all aspects of history, culture and science.

Al Mayadeen reports that Tehran has outlined a staged negotiation approach covering ceasefire guarantees, maritime coordination in the Strait of Hormuz, and later discussions on its nuclear program.

The proposed amendments included softening language criticising Israel for its bombardment of Gaza and Lebanon, and dropping a reference to “East Jerusalem” to be established as the capital of the Palestinian state as a part of the two-state solution.

Along the northern shore of the Great Lakes, across the water from Rochester, Cleveland, Toledo, and Detroit, the Canadian manufacturing industry has long been part of the greater industrial archipelago of metal-bending communities—out of which American brand-name equipment, toolmakers, and vehicle companies grew in the early decades of the twentieth century.

He taught with a kind of irreverent brilliance that made you laugh, think, and question everything you thought you knew about both the economy and economics.

U.S. naval power and dollar dominance have always worked together: one guarded the sea lanes, the other controlled payments, insurance, credit and sanctions. Now both are being challenged at once.

A critique of Jacobin’s framing of Ibrahim Traoré, and the deeper problem of purity, legibility, and distance in Western left analysis.

Trump death penalty methods expand federal executions with firing squads and gas, raising global human rights concerns.