Archive | April, 2026

There is a broader context for the Olympics committee’s recently announced ban on transgender women athletes—one that wants to turn back the clock on gender politics.

“Capitalism has now singled out a handful (less than one-tenth of the inhabitants of the globe; less than one-fifth at a most “generous” and liberal calculation) of exceptionally rich and powerful states which plunder the whole world simply by “clipping coupons.””

Kennedy, the CIA, and the regime embarked on a race to prepare a full-scale invasion to occupy a portion of Cuban territory where they would install those who would call themselves the Revolutionary Council.

It is news media’s responsibility to reflect reality and to address the concerns of the communities they serve, regardless of the priorities of the administration in power. Failing to mention climate change where it is relevant will not stop it from occurring, but inattention will surely make it worse.

On social contract theory, economic power, and the limits of liberal democratic governance.

We have one tool to keep carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere: the substitution of clean energy for fossil fuel.

Markets are trying to keep the simulation going a little longer, but they cannot. The old is dying and the new, now, can be born.

The Tisza party defeated Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz in Hungary’s election, but a likely Magyar administration promises few radical breaks.

After several years when the far right seemed to be growing almost unopposed, there is now a growing backlash to the backlash.

There is no reason to expect it to succeed where war and negotiations have already failed.

In his first interview since returning from Gaza, David McIntosh says he witnessed Israeli soldiers firing open fire on crowds of Palestinians seeking aid.

A $40-billion plan to arm and extract from the North ignores Indigenous calls for stewardship, risks accelerating climate collapse, and turns a fragile ecosystem into a geopolitical battleground.

The idea of the “creative worker” disguises the fact that all workers are creative-and promotes self-exploitation.

A curious feature of capitalism is that it masks the social nature of its form of production, making it appear as if the commodities produced by “the aggregate labour of society” were actually produced “naturally”, autonomously, of their “own accord”, especially when they are encountered as finished products in the market to be bought and consumed (Capital, Volume 1, 165).

Efforts to control Black mobility—from early passports to the Fugitive Slave Act—laid much of the groundwork for today’s border regimes.

For the second time in less than a year, a ceasefire has been called on a genocide being carried out by imperialism.

CARLOS MARTINEZ reports on China’s role in helping Cuba develop self-sufficiency in renewable energy, which would shield it from the sort of pain Donald Trump is inflicting with his oil blockade.

Toward critical consciousness and the development of revolutionary capacity.

Recent comments by Ibrahim Traoré on democracy have spread widely in Western media following an interview, but interpretations that he rejects democracy appear to misrepresent his position.

Capitalism is invariably hostile to any collective praxis against it, even if this collective praxis takes the form of just trade union action.