Archive | May, 2026

If bee keepers can’t keep hives alive, food brands pay more for things like cereal and ice cream. Many of those brands trade on U.S. stock markets.

A close look at how data‑fusion platforms embed into public health, education, and corporate systems creates states’ long‑term dependencies.

Residents are concerned about rising electricity prices and environmental harms.

An attempt at understanding.

The authentic rage fueling the CJP is a volatile political asset.

It is unsurprising that generative AI is being used to churn out atrocity propaganda to manufacture consent for imperial war projects, because these new technologies lend themselves perfectly to the task of creating realistic-looking video footage of events which never transpired.

Tenant movements are emerging as one of the most significant movements of our era.

CounterSpin interview with Karma Chávez on academic freedom.

Tech monopolies—Apple, Nvidia, Google, Microsoft and Intel—depend on mineral supply chains that run through eastern Congo.

There is nothing mysterious about Trump’s effort to curb legal immigration. White supremacy is the explanation.

In contrast, global military spending climbed to nearly $3 trillion in 2025, marking the 11th consecutive year of growth.

We believe that it is not international observers, but the Chavista grassroots—the people who have sustained this revolutionary process for twenty-seven years, who buried their dead and resisted sanctions and destabilization, and who are still, slowly and stubbornly, building communes—who should carry the most weight.

The screaming about “tax grabs”, “death taxes”, “class war” and “communism” from the sorry brigade of start-up shysters, investors, small businesses, big capitalists, right-wing journos and politicians is an absolute festival of reaction.

Marx and Engels incorporated in their writings a critique of the way that capitalism destroys the environment but it is only in the last half century that environmental concerns have become an integral part of the fight for socialism, writes the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School.

An in-depth article of Magnifica Humanitas Encyclical and its call to dismantle corporate algorithmic control, protect national sovereignty, and restore the dignity of human labor.

From Gaza to Tehran, from the politics of resistance to the limits of regional diplomacy, a pressing question has resurfaced amid the 2026 war: why was Palestine not explicitly placed at the center of Iran’s ceasefire framework? In this critical reading, Ramzy Baroud challenges the assumption of abandonment, arguing instead that the answer lies in the fragmented nature of Palestinian representation and the uneven political architecture of the resistance camp itself.

From Freeports to AI Growth Zones, Britain is quietly being transformed into a network of deregulated corporate enclaves where democracy is replaced by private governance.

Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

A new rule change will allow the government to count having a place to sleep as income, and deduct it from SSI payments.

Evidence of catastrophic shifts in the climate is mounting alarmingly, yet leaders show no signs of action, so anti-capitalism is the only route to solving the crisis, argues John Clarke.