“Before everyone gets excited about Pruitt, remember we’re going to get all the same horrific policy under Andrew Wheeler, without any of the comic, attention-drawing personal corruption.”
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In a repeat of Brazil model, judge orders detention of Rafael Correa
The former president of Ecuador is accused of being involved in the failed kidnapping of a coup plotter based on mails between officials.
Climbers in Vancouver blockade Trans Mountain oil tanker’s route
Seven climbers have rappelled from Vancouver’s Ironworkers Memorial Bridge and are blocking the path of a tar sands oil tanker, Serene Sea, currently docked at Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline terminal. The tanker was scheduled to leave port this morning.
Bolivian President reiterates U.S. pro-coup plan against Venezuela
Bolivian President Evo Morales reiterated today the existence of armed invasion plans against Venezuela and the head of State, Nicolas Maduro, by U.S. President Donald Trump and his administration.
Race, gender and social reproduction in British capitalism, 1945-78
How can we understand the way that capitalism comes to be gendered and racialised?
Labour is back as the ‘political voice of the working class’
Jeremy Corbyn tells Unite conference class politics is essential for ‘transformational change’.
Trump’s “infrastructure” plan: pump up the Pentagon
This year alone will bring total spending on the Pentagon and related agencies (like the Department of Energy where work on nuclear warheads takes place) to $716 billion.
Love me I’m a liberal – updated for Trump
Phil Ochs’s song “Love Me I’m a Liberal” updated with some of my own words since the election of DJT.
Nicaragua, unraveling a plot
The United States’ National Endowment for Democracy distributed some 4.2 million dollars in Nicaragua, between 2014 and 2017, to train “new leaders” to overthrow the Sandinista government | Francisco Arias Fernández*
American behavioral fascism, anti-fascism and democracy
Dark Thoughts from Paris on a Hot and Sunny Friday.
How the West and its allies sabotaged Venezuela
Venezuela and Colombia differ in their relations and involvement with the U.S. government and its functions.
Ocasio-Cortez’s win: opportunities and challenges for the left
Ocasio’s victory in the Democratic primaries is a sign of increasing openness to socialism among U.S. voters. The left may squander the opportunity revealed by her win if the wrong lessons are drawn.
No migration without economic exploitation
Why are thousands of Central Americans fleeing violence and economic devastation and flocking to the United States? Because of the American dream? Because the streets are paved in gold?
Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Dystopia
What is the structural basis for Trump’s anti-immigrant dystopia? How are anti-immigrant policies rooted in US imperialist relations with Mexico?
From the news media to Hollywood, powerful elites control the messages the masses receive
IN EARLY May the Disney blockbuster Avengers: Infinity War took over $1 billion from box offices around the world.
Puerto Rico’s inalienable right to self-determination and independence reiterated in the UN
This Monday saw a session of the UN Special Committee on Decolonization, and the approval of a draft resolution that would call upon the U.S. to facilitate the island’s self‑determination.
A Marxist theory of music: it’s all in the groove
It is a defence of popular music, but in the first place it is an attempt to explain why the music of our time sounds the way it does.
On Marx and Epicurus
Given the fragments, literally, of the works of Epicurus available to Marx at the time, the materialist analysis that he manages to develop from them is pretty amazing.
What you didn’t know about the new global treaty to rule them all
A new report from Corporate Europe Observatory and TNI exposes how the little-known Energy Charter Treaty gives corporations the power to obstruct the transition from climate-wrecking fossil fuels towards renewable energy.
It’s official: The United States is a rogue state
It is clear U.S. officials have no intention of operating within the rule-based international order designed to govern relations between states and between people and governments.
