Archive | May, 2026

A partial Electric System failure affected six Cuba’s eastern provinces, as progressive service restoration continues, amid the oil sanctions and the economic blockade imposed by the U.S..

Earth scientists Brian Toon and Alan Robock discuss their latest book on nuclear winter, “Earth in Flames” (Oxford University Press, 2025).

The movement for Palestine has become one of the largest mass mobilisations in British history. Labour’s local election drubbing shows it is now beginning to reshape electoral politics.

A growing movement in Utah is challenging the “Stratos Project,” a city-sized AI data center backed by TV personality Kevin O’Leary, over concerns about democratic oversight, water use, and environmental collapse.

The Warao people have faced brutal missionary campaigns, ecological destruction, capitalist penetration, state neglect, racism, disease, forced migration, and now the effects of one of the most aggressive sanctions regimes imposed on any country in the world.

The widespread misery imposed by capitalism demands that we organise hope through collective struggle; only then can we build a future where human dignity supersedes the destructive profit motive.

Trump will bring with him a delegation from the biggest U.S. banks, tech firms, manufacturers and financial monopolies: Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, Tesla’s Elon Musk, Apple’s Tim Cook, BlackRock’s Larry Fink, Blackstone’s Stephen Schwarzman, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg, Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser, Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach, Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra, Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon, Visa CEO Ryan McInerney, Meta executive Dina Powell McCormick, and others.

Tel Aviv’s pageant of kidney-donor virtue cannot wash away the Palestinian bodies, forensic warnings, and trafficking scandals that still demand a reckoning.

‘Jail is not just a microcosm of society, but it also mimics the social hierarchy and divisions outside.’

Toronto-based Sherritt International Corporation, the largest foreign investor in Cuba for over three decades, announced on May 7 that it was suspending all direct participation in its joint venture activities on the island and immediately bringing back its Canadian employees currently stationed in Cuba.

In previous writings, we advanced an inventive new model for municipal finance: what we call the Seattle Loop. By establishing a city-owned public bank, we propose, Seattle can not only expand public investment through municipal lending and provide residents with low-cost financial services; it can also purchase its own bonds and “loop” the interest back to the […]

For decades, the Southern Ocean defied global warming trends – until 2015.

The building of socialism, for a ‘community with a shared future for mankind’ is China’s solution to global crises, and is a major innovation of Marxism in the 21st century, Chinese scholars believe.

His views on Israel and Zionism were concealed and distorted for decades.

In my 25 years as a union organizer and labor educator, my core purpose has been to help working-class people recognize and act on their own power.

Western Marxism is a particular version of Marxist theory developed in–and acceptable to–the capitalist nations of Europe and North America and largely divorced from political action, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY.

Capitalism, Fossil Finance, and the Structural Logic of Ecological Breakdown.

This investigation excavates how Associated Press reporting frames U.S.-Israeli coercion as diplomacy while presenting Iranian sovereignty as instability and defiance. It reconstructs the omitted legal, geopolitical, and economic terrain surrounding the war, exposing the contradiction between the UN Charter system and the operational reality of imperial power. It reframes the conflict as part of a broader struggle over sovereignty, technological development, sanctions warfare, and the declining legitimacy of U.S. global domination. Finally, it advances a program of anti-imperialist organization and international solidarity aimed at resisting war, blockade, sanctions, and the normalization of permanent coercion against nations of the Global South.

Trump still hasn’t recognized that, after he has lost the war, the sanctions game is also over. It is certainly not in Chinese, or anyone other’s interest to help the U.S. to regain the hegemonic position it has now lost in the Gulf.

Over 30 years since apartheid was abolished, nasty anti-migrant rhetoric sweeps the corporate media. The Commnunist Party is ready to fight back, says ROGER McKENZIE.