Archive | May, 2026

The racist Republican tactic of redistricting to keep Trump and his base in power is turning the clock back to the 1950s, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER.

Israel has killed over 120 rescue workers, damaged 16 hospitals, and targeted over 130 ambulances in Lebanon since March 2.

Elon Musk’s xAI did not wait for permission. It built a massive gas-burning power plant outside Memphis without permits, without public hearings and with the community shut out until after the turbines were already running.

Welcome to the sixth entry in the Marx in Moments series. These are three-minute reads examining key Marxist concepts in a clear and accessible way. This week, we focus on so-called primitive accumulation — Marx’s account of the violence that made capitalism possible, and the reason he insisted on those first two words.

A draft Iran–U.S. MOU reportedly outlines changes to Strait of Hormuz transit rules, asset releases, sanctions relief, and phased nuclear negotiations.

The local media have fanned the misconception that these are anti-Jewish protests, meant to intimidate Jewish worshippers attending synagogue, when in fact they are pro-Palestine protests against illegal land sales that are strategically held inside a house of worship.

Colombia’s economic trajectory from the 1990s is anything but straightforward.

Trump is using a classic negotiating tactic to pave the way for historically high military spending.

Ghana’s UN resolution on the transatlantic slave trade and the crisis of the Global North.

The government may appease speculators by offering some blandishments in the form of a higher interest rate (may be on some specific government bonds), or some tax concessions, as an earlier government had done in 2013 when there had been a similar speculative attack on the rupee; but it will have an immediate adverse effect on the working people by cutting them out from fiscal resources or subjecting them to the recessionary effects of an interest rate hike.

Western accounts portray the Stasi as an agent of repression, but behind the stereotype, many East German security officers saw themselves as defenders of an anti-fascist socialist project under constant attack from the West, argues NICK WRIGHT.

In May 2018, the Argentine government received the largest loan in IMF history: $57 billion.

While the capitalist system rewards short-term cycles, building a dignified future is a slow task that requires disciplined organisation and an enduring struggle to bring forth the social forces of a new world.

Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System.

On Eve of Raul Castro Indictment, Archive Posts Declassified FAA Documents on Events Leading to Shootdown of Cuban Exile Planes FAA Emails Foresaw “Worst Case Scenario”“One of these days the Cubans will shoot down one of these planes”

Millions of people across the world still view the Cuban Revolution as a symbol of sovereignty, resistance and international solidarity.

Christian Castro is now the subject of a nationwide arrest warrant.

The terrorism charge is a weapon to break the strike.

Neoclassical economics had cast Marxist dependency theory (and other heterodox schools of thought) as a relic—a Latin American intellectual curiosity from the Cold War era, now superseded by globalisation, global value chains (GVCs), and the triumph of market-led development.

A U.S. lawmaker says the American military lost at least 39 aircraft during 40 days of the U.S.-Israeli war of aggression against Iran.