Archive | August, 2026

Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro this Monday presented evidence of an algorithmic and systematic electoral fraud that allegedly altered the results of seven million votes to impose Abelardo de la Espriella as elected-President.

It is clearly not a political agitation; it clearly has no “leaders”. The Bharatiya Janata Party is adept at dealing with “leaders”, by dividing them, by defaming them, by corrupting them, by buying them up, and by threatening them with the Enforcement Directorate and the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act; had this agitation been led by “leaders” it would not have gone as far as it did.

Today, there is growing recognition of the German Democratic Republic’s (DDR) building-integrated art and the type of society rooted in education, dignity, and imagination of the working class the DDR sought to build.

Ecological science turned toward struggle must be intimately associated with the class struggle.

In the United States, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and others have stepped in to bolster cash-strapped education departments.

At least 60,000 people have evacuated eastern Washington as uncontrolled wildfires destroy hundreds of homes and continue spreading around Spokane. The emergency has prompted a statewide disaster declaration while smoke and elevated fire risks affect much of the western United States.

The outgoing president of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, made a trip to Cuba on Friday, his last trip abroad before his term ends and he hands over the presidency to far-right Abelardo de la Espriella, who will take office on August 7 in Cali.

On 4 July, the 100th anniversary of the Nazi Party’s second conference in the German state of Thuringia, the far-right Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) held its federal party conference in a neighbouring city in the same state.

Israel is home to droves of international criminals accused or found guilty in a second country of various crimes. Among them is Tomás Zerón, accused mastermind of the kidnapping and murder of 43 Mexican students in Ayotzinapa.

The immediate demands of the recent student-youth rallies in Delhi and elsewhere related to the incessant leaks of examination papers.

We must push back against ideological containment that blocks the development of rebellious thinking and movements of resistance.

A new Minnesota law banning the use of technology that creates sexually explicit images or videos of a person without their consent will go into effect Saturday after a federal judge rejected the request of an Elon Musk AI company to delay the law’s enforcement.

It’s said that Nero fiddled while Rome burned.

CounterSpin interview with Dorothee Benz on Prairieland.

Congressional Republicans want to sabotage the capital city’s incoming progressive government, and the owners of the DoorDash food delivery app, upset over having to pay their fair share of taxes in D.C., are helping them do it.