Archive | August, 2026

I found, in studying Epicurus more deeply, that the central question is really the question of human freedom.

Rebel teachers are taking the energy and inspiration of their industrial struggle against the Victorian government into the state election this November.

A lot of social media users have been wondering why their feeds have been filled with far-right, often racist, content. For me, it started with more conservative media outlets and Republican politicians in my feed.

Former Conindustria President Luigi Pisella, who is also a member of the Venezuelan government-created Special Commission for the Evaluation and Classification of Public Assets, has revealed that Washington retained approximately U.S. $4.7 billion of Venezuela’s oil-export income during the first half of 2026 as “payment” for the U.S. military operation that resulted in the January 3 bombing of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores.

The Indo-U.S. Trade Agreement as it had been negotiated earlier, before its basis was knocked out by a court ruling on Trump tariffs, had been an “unequal treaty”, allowing the U.S. to charge much higher tariffs on Indian exports than the other way round, and stipulating amounts of American goods that India had to buy, but not the other way around.

AI as a broad technology is not our problem any more or less than are computers, the internet, or email. Rather, the problem is with the class interests shaping its development.

All of us hoped that our brigade would not only build popular power but also serve as a springboard for recharging Venezuela’s socialist project.

From taxi, bus and IT workers to communities fighting the spread of Data centers, it’s right to rebel against the use and misuse of any new technology by elites. Owen McCormack argues that these campaigns can be part of a more general revolt against capitalism with profound implications for socialists and revolutionaries in the coming years.

On Forms, Relations, and Social Powers.

“As a trans man, I have the immense privilege of blending in. But these laws force me to choose between safety and obeying the law.”

The Tsinghua economist welcomes China’s new offshore trust tax rules and reflects on the stark disparity between taxes on capital and labour.

Our minds have been carefully groomed to accept the imperial status quo as normal and healthy, and to see every failure of the system as a failure of the individual.

As Governor Pritzker and Mayor Johnson push this project through, they are continuing to make the people of Chicago complicit in war crimes across the globe.

RON JACOBS welcomes the political lessons for today, about organisation and withdrawal from conflict, made by an erudite and conversational biography.

Chris Bambery explores the life and work of Latvian Bolshevik, Asja Lācis.

AI developers, in particular the two industry leaders, OpenAI and Anthropic, have yet to make a profit. 

Victor Pickard returns to Money on the Left six years after his first appearance on the show to discuss the state of the U.S. media system under Trump 2.0. Pickard is C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication and Co-Director at the Media, Inequality & Change Center. Placing current developments in broad historical context, Pickard situates today’s media crisis within a century-long struggle to establish and maintain genuine public media against the overpowering dominance and relentless pushback of private corporate media.

CounterSpin interview with Gina Plata-Nino on food aid cuts.

The controversial decision was announced by the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry on social media.

The revolutionary road opened on 26 July 1953, when a group of young rebels led by the 26-year-old Fidel attacked the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba against the dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista.