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To the emerging political force who could change the world
This is truly a new political fact: particularly on the issue of war, but not only, the 20-year-olds are coming back on the scene.
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Open science and agroecology: A Conversation with Miguel Ángel Núñez
An independent researcher argues that Venezuela is undergoing an agroecological transition.
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Israel is holding more hostages than Hamas
Hamas is holding 132 hostages: 130 of them were taken captive on October 7 and two were taken hostage before then (one in 2014, the other in 2015).
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When Che Guevara came to Gaza
The iconic revolutionary visited Gaza to inspire a popular uprising against Israeli dominance, writes Yousef al-Helou.
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AI chatbots: Hype meets reality
The chatbot revolution began in 2022 with OpenAI’s introduction of ChatGPT.
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Barnard AAUP chapter unanimously issues vote of ‘no confidence’ in Rosenbury
Barnard AAUP Chapter President Frederick Neuhouser said the vote calls for a change in course such as “implicitly a call for resignation.”
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Eco-socialism to fight climate change
With Lima failing to tackle critical issues on global warming, Bolivia outlines socialist project to save the planet.
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Two, three, many Gaza encampments: Veteran of 1968 Columbia strike speaks out
To rebel is justified. Palestine must be free! Palestine will be free!
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Rural labour in the Modi years
The two phenomena, a reduction in real wages and a reduction in employment opportunities, in fact go together.
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How Africa’s national liberation struggles brought democracy to Europe: The Seventeenth Newsletter (2024)
African liberation struggles not only won independence in their own countries; they also defeated Estado Novo colonialism, which spurred the Carnation Revolution 50 years ago.
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Protect the Arctic Region: Already threatened Arctic ecology can be devastated further by rapid militarization
The Arctic region is warming at twice the global rate, leading to rapid melting of ice–some have even predicted ice-free summers by year 2034.
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Portugal’s forgotten revolution
The ‘carnation revolution’ saw soldiers, workers and communities join forces to overthrow fascism and challenge capitalist power. Peter Robinson traces events from April 1974.
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Ukraine war funding and failed Russian sanctions
Russia is extremely unlikely to fall a third time for a Biden/NATO request to ‘freeze’ military operations and negotiate again.
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From World War II to Gaza: U.S. Labour opposition to war and fascism
To understand the growing support within union ranks for an end to unconditional U.S. military and financial support for Israel in its conduct of a brutal war, it is important to look back at the legacy to which the UAW statements refer.
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Netanyahu calls for crackdown on pro-Palestine protesters in the U.S.
Echoing President Biden, Netanyahu labeled the demonstrations ‘antisemitic’.
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Socialist climate struggle for a world worth living in
On 19 April, tens of thousands of young and oppressed as well as working class people more broadly will once again hit the streets for the next global climate strike with actions expected on all continents.
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India as a tool to contain China-Geopolitics explained
When one of the rivals gets a bit too strong, it will be attacked mercilessly.
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Further thoughts on the economics of imperialism
Since the end of WW2, the imperialist bloc (IC) annually got around 1% of their GDP through the transfer of surplus value in international trade from the rest of the major ‘developing’ economies (DC) in the G20; while the latter lost about 1% of their GDP in surplus value transferred to the imperialist bloc. And these ratios were rising.
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Israel is turning hospitals into mass graves while the West fixates on ‘antisemitism’
The IDF are just attacking hospitals and mowing down civilians and trying to bury the evidence of their crimes, so naturally we’re seeing the western political-media class focus very hard on the problem of antisemitism allegations on college campuses. Reading by Tim Foley.
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‘A monopoly on the bomb would be a catastrophe for the world’
CounterSpin interview with Dave Lindorff on Spy for No Country.