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Western climate agenda goes against African development
This commentary provides an overview of carbon and biodiversity offsets as an expansion of global capitalism under the western environmental agenda marshalled against development in Africa.
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Part-time jobs, no benefits: The real state of the working class
In his March 6 State of the Union address, President Joe Biden declared, “We have the best economy in the world.” He said millions of new jobs had been created in the last three years and that unemployment was at record lows.
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Seven reasons not to leave Lenin to our enemies
The Left has tossed Lenin’s corpse to the victors of history—both the Stalinists and their liberal opponents.
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UNRWA staffers tortured by Israeli troops to falsely admit ‘Hamas links’
Israel has sought for years to dismantle the UN agency to destroy Palestinian refugees’ right of return.
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October Revolution: The first general recognition of women’s equality in history
The land of the October revolution: a country of women walking on the road to emancipation
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A vision for transforming education in the face of climate and ecological breakdown
Preparing students for their futures requires nothing short of transformative systemic change in all aspects of society.
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Indigenous women in Greenland sue Denmark over involuntary contraception
Greenland, part of Denmark, was a colony until 1953, after which it became a province of the Scandinavian country.
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Working class films and social change: An interview with Ken Loach
Ken Loach talks to Hilary Wainwright about his latest film, The Old Oak, and his long career dignifying the lives and struggles of ordinary people.
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How Hearst’s ‘weather wonks’ invisibilize climate crisis
Hearst Newspapers’ ‘science-informed’ weather reporting initiative promised to help keep readers safe, but the ‘Texas Weather Wonks’ have entirely ignored the primary driver of recent extreme heat—human fossil-fueled industry.
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Lenin in his own words: five key texts
Vladimir Lenin, leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution, is one of history’s most well-known figures, and one of its most maligned. Mainstream culture vilifies him as a despot.
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‘We are the masters of the house’: Israeli channels air snuff videos featuring systematic torture of Palestinians
Israeli TV channels aired a number of reports showing the torture and humiliation of Palestinians in Israeli prisons. The videos are consumed by the Israeli public as entertainment, revealing the sadism of Israeli society.
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Rochdale has shown what can be done
Sunak’s quivering, late-night address, expressing dire concerns over George Galloway’s win in Rochdale, unveils a profound unease within the elite—good. Now let’s build from here, writes ANDREW MURRAY.
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Growth is not good: the great GDP myth
It’s not some question of being realistic yet effective over being compassionate but economically incompetent: there is absolutely no material basis to continue to measure societies by their GDP, explains BERT SCHOUWENBURG
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[UPDATED] Another lost Cold War document: Zhou Enlai’s March 8, 1952 denunciation of U.S. germ warfare
When the U.S. began its aerial germ war bombing campaign over No. Korea & China in Winter 1952, China’s Foreign Affairs Minister publicly accused the U.S. of dropping infected insects in Northeast China.
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Climate crisis and nuclear waste in the U.S.
Climate crisis could disturb Cold War-era nuclear waste buried by the U.S. decades ago, according to a U.S. federal report.
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Illegal Israeli settlements land for sale in Canada
The Canada Files became aware of planned Canadian illegal settlement events for selling land in the West Bank and Gaza through a Twitter post from Ghada Sasa, a Palestinian PhD Candidate at McMaster University.
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Intellectual and political lessons of ‘The Communist Manifesto’ for our time
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ Communist Manifesto was published in February, 1848. It is truly a part of what Marx called world literature that capitalism has given rise to. The Manifesto is a call to revolutionary action. It is important to return to the text now when a large number of people around the world […]
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When Einstein called “fascists” those who rule Israel for the last 44 years…
What would you say if the notorious racist and anti-semite prime minister of Hungary Victor Orban accused Einstein of … anti-semitism? And Hanna Arendt as well? Together with the most iconic author of Holocaust literature Primo Levi?
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Bombay HC acquits ex-DU Prof G N Saibaba, 5 others, in alleged Maoist Link case
The verdict by the Nagpur Bench of Bombay HC was delivered by Justices Vinay Joshi and Valmiki SA Menezes, who reheard Saibaba’s appeal after the SC set aside an earlier HC acquittal order.
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Igniting conflict in the heart of Africa
The perils of U.S. empire have driven a spiral of violence in the Sahel.