Archive | July, 2026

Guinea-Bissau’s geography had always made it profitable for smuggling–particularly in the Bijagós archipelago, with its more than eighty islands and complex coastal waterways.

The struggles over what kind of place we inhabit and what kind of people we want to be is a form of general political and social struggle that is central to what socialist consciousness must embrace. It is oppositional to the alienated and exclusionary nationalism that frequently attaches to the toxic form of developmentalism that too often corrupts anticapitalist politics.

The clearest things said about Graham Platner as he was forced to suspend his triumphantly buoyant campaign for a Maine Senate seat this week came from Graham Platner.

Trump and Elon Musk, his billionaire cohort took a chainsaw to needed government programs allegedly to save money but ended up saving nothing.

Apolinario Mabini is the most neglected or ignored figure in the pantheon of heroes of the revolution against Spain and the United States.

Trump is using the authority that the Supreme Court appeared to give him in a decision last week allowing him to remove members of independent agencies, except for Federal Reserve governors.

These toys of the ultrarich are environmentally destructive and multiplying fast. They should not exist.

The 30th AFL-CIO Constitutional Convention wrapped up in Minneapolis on June 10. One resolution in particular hints at a shift in its staunchly pro-imperialist record.

More and more, as an electoral left movement makes key wins in the lead-up to the November mid-terms, Trump will most likely ratchet up his anti-communist rhetoric, painting even the most rabid, establishment anticommunist Democrats as party to a nefarious communist plot. That has already included targeting more organized formations of the socialist and anti-imperialist left.

The Jewish settlers reportedly wielded U.S.-made rifles to intimidate the U.S. lawmaker and his delegation.

The U.S. Air Force now runs Venezuela’s main international airport.

What remains of the scientific enterprise is focused narrowly on research and development that profits its industry sponsors and perpetuates planetary overshoot.

Burkina Faso on July 9 has inaugurated its first state-owned gold mine, marking a major milestone in the government’s strategy to expand public control over the country’s natural resources and strengthen its economic sovereignty.

Pre-capitalist societies even in normal times have been characterized by a degree of deference by the common people towards the intelligentsia; this was strengthened by the role played by the intelligentsia during the anti-colonial struggle and the period of post-independence dirigisme in countries like India.

A new report finds that governments worldwide are reshaping labour law to favour corporate power.

At the Marxism 2026 conference in Toronto last month, Ian Angus spoke at a release event for his new book, Metabolic Rifts: Capitalism’s Assault on the Earth System, out now from Monthly Review Press.

Every year, unsafe food causes 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths, with young children suffering nearly a third of all cases of foodborne disease. This is the predictable outcome of a food economy organised around profit rather than the right to food.

The Patriot Front’s bold incursions into U.S. cities are a sign of their burgeoning strength and of the weakness of Black movement politics.

U.S. President declared he didn’t want to deal with the Iranians anymore.

Government silence won’t help Cuba. Grassroots solidarity can.