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On dozens of occasions I’ve responded to Kurtz’ racist, violent anti-Palestinian posts on X. Six weeks ago I wrote an article..

Trump administration officials and fascists from around the world are currently gathering at Maryland’s National Harbor for the annual U.S. Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

The fall of the Berlin Wall enabled neo-fascist activity to spill over into East Germany, laying the groundwork for the strengthening of right-wing forces today.

The official hope is that the workers’ bargaining strength gets sufficiently lowered by having greater unemployment so that they cannot bargain for higher money wages to compensate for the price-rise, because of which inflation would eventually peter out.

The ‘Big Five’ publishing houses wield enormous global power, controlling 80% of the English-language trade publishing market.

On a cold New York afternoon in Harlem February 21, 1965, “Don’t Do it,” were the last words that the world heard from the voice of El Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, better known as Malcolm X, before the assassins opened fire with a barrage of bullets that would take Malcolm away from us physically.

The decline in manufacturing jobs is common to most developed economies and is not unique to the U.S. Further, Donald Trump is nothing if not delusional, and his tariffs will only damage both the U.S. economy and others as well.

Real estate event organized by company promoting land sales in illegal Israeli settlements in West Bank turns violent.

The arrest of a well-known Palestinian bookstore’s co-owner was part of a pattern of raids and repression, booksellers say.

Literacy gives us the power to build a collective life–it allows us to see our history with clarity, be critical of our present, and demand the impossible of the future.

The hard right is making serious ground globally. But, while increasingly powerful, their ideas are not hegemonic. Now is not the time to despair, but to fight for a better world.

Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier finally returns home today. In the last moments of his presidency, Joe Biden commuted his two consecutive life sentences to home confinement.

“Why should we feel constrained by a free trade agreement?”

It was clear during the U.S. presidential election campaign that if re-elected Donald Trump would be no friend to the environment. The assault on climate science and action began immediately.

Billionaire Peter Thiel had a fascinating televised moment the other day when asked by Piers Morgan what he thought about the public making a hero of the man suspected of murdering health insurance CEO Brian Thompson.

The 1940s saw a series of movies with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, starting with the Road to Singapore in 1940.

The following text is based on a talk given by Gary Wilson at the “Deep Seek and the Challenge to U.S. Technological Hegemony” webinar on Feb. 16, hosted by the Friends of Socialist China and the International Manifesto Group.

While it is certainly true that Trumpism is not identical with capitalism per se, it would be a mistake to see Trumpism as a completely separate and alien phenomenon.

What is the meaning of “multipolarity”? Donald Trump and Marco Rubio say “great power competition” with imperial spheres of influence. China and much of the Global South have an anti-imperialist view: “equality among all countries regardless of size”.

Trump’s aggression does not reflect strength. He is desperately trying to slow the decline of U.S. empire.