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Over 500 people arrested in London at Palestine Action protest
Palestine Action, a direct-action group protesting against Israeli war crimes, was proscribed by the British government in July 2025.
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Britain’s most iconic fish nears breaking point
Rising temperatures and overfishing have seen the U.K.’s iconic cod decline for over a decade. Now, consumers are warned to “completely avoid” eating the fish.
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On Iran’s ten-point proposal for peace
None of these points are unreasonable. In fact, a serious commitment to their fulfillment may very well provide the basis for a stability long stolen from the region by continuous war.
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The empire of cannibals
Trump Is Not the Problem—the System That Produced Him Is.
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Millions excluded from voter rolls in a move to allegedly help ultra-right-wing ruling party win elections
The Election Commission of India struck out the names of over 9 million voters, mostly belonging to minority Muslims, just before the legislative assembly elections in the country’s eastern state of West Bengal.
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Explaining AI with Marx: Turns out that class matters a lot!
With the AI “revolution” coming for our jobs, our creativity, our politics, our environment, and just about anything else you’d care to think of, it is heartening to see an emerging critique of the shameless boosterism characteristic of so much discussion of the technology.
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As Israel eyes executions, Canada targets Palestine solidarity
Ottawa’s actions at home contradict its criticism of Israel’s death penalty law.
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Metabolic Rifts: Ian Angus Interviewed by Michael Roberts
Ian Angus was interviewed by noted Marxist economist Michael Roberts about Angus’s new book, Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System, out now from Monthly Review Press.
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The Strait of Hormuz, Gate to the Great Sea: The Fifteenth Newsletter (2026)
The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran has turned the Strait of Hormuz into a choke point for the world economy, with the gravest consequences falling not on the powerful but on the poorer nations of the Global South.
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War on Iran disrupts efforts to save the Asiatic cheetah, world’s rarest big cat
Before the war began in February 2026, there was some rare good news for Iran’s imperiled Asiatic cheetahs.
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What Marx actually meant by dialectics
Marx’s dialectic is misinterpreted, twisted, and vulgarized to this day, 180 years after he first expounded on his method.
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Israeli soldiers beat elderly Palestinian woman to death during West Bank home raid
Israeli soldiers beat a 68-year-old Palestinian woman to death during a raid on her home in the town of Jayyous, in the northern occupied West Bank on Tuesday.
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If the AFL-CIO had a convention, would anyone notice?
Current AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler, always eager to share the news that “public opinion polls show that big majorities of working people in the U.S. support unions…”
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard distrusts U.S. promises
The Iranian military remain ready to confront any ‘new mistake by the enemy.’
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9 April 1948 – The Deir Yassin massacre
This week in working class history.
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Thousands protest at U.S. Embassy over Israeli killing of Indonesia peacekeepers
Thousands of Muslims protested in front of the United States (U.S.) Embassy in Central Jakarta on Sunday morning April 5. The action followed the death of three Indonesian Military (TNI) soldiers in an Israeli attack while carrying out a UN peacekeeping mission in South Lebanon.
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A socialist political earthquake strikes Seattle
As Rosenblum writes, an average of 1,000 people were moving to Seattle every week during the city’s tech boom, and developers and big landlords took advantage of this boom by raising rents and gentrifying previously affordable neighborhoods.
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Venezuela calls nationwide rally for 20 years of communal councils law
The United Socialist Party of Venezuela called for a march on April 9, to commemorate 20 years since the promulgation of the Communal Councils Law, reaffirming support for the Bolivarian Revolution and peace in the country.
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Senior BBC Iran reporter exposed as opposition activist
After a top reporter at the BBC drew outrage for publishing a quote demanding Iran be nuked, she’s been revealed as a dedicated regime change activist whose career was launched by a CIA-founded propaganda network. Serious questions remain about the BBC’s editorial process.
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Experts raise concerns over Trump’s cognitive, behavioral decline
Psychologist Dr. John Gartner warns that President Trump is “not the same man he was four weeks ago” and exhibiting signs of frontotemporal dementia.
