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Mattarella: ‘Batons against young people are an expression of failure.’ The president issues a sharp warning to the police and interior minister. The government: ‘Law enforcement is not to be touched.’

The prosecution lawyers in the High Court seeking to ensure Julian’s extradition to the U.S. rely almost exclusively on the judicial opinions of Gordon Kromberg, a highly controversial U.S. attorney.

A stunning animation displays the pulse of the Earth System’s metabolism.

For many continental philosophers, the first two decades of the new millennium were a time of vibrant matter, hyperobjects, and a weird fixation with intestinal microbes. The late Bruno Latour saw this ‘new materialist’ doctrine–which decentred the human subject in favour of the world of ‘things’, believed to have agency of their own–as a useful resource in his career-long polemic against Marxism.

People across the world have highlighted the bravery and sacrifice of the U.S. active duty soldier who was protesting the genocide in Gaza.

The tiny but incredibly privileged 0.1% really are a breed apart, even from their not-quite-so-rich neighbours.

A celebrity performer who devoted his life to social justice struggles, Paul Robeson is an icon of the civil rights movement who helped set the groundwork for the political awakening of the 1960s.

Alexei Navalny, a Russian political opposition figure whose popularity in the West far exceeded his support in Russia, died while incarcerated in a Russian prison. He was serving a combined 30-and-a-half-year sentence for fraud and political extremism, charges that Navalny and his supporters claim were little more than trumped up accusations designed to silence a […]

Israel’s war in Gaza has now entered its fifth month. 

Britain’s nuclear arsenal has failed two tests in a row. Why must we still pay for these extortionate weapons of mass destruction?

Texas’ largest county remains the state’s deadliest when it comes to capital murder convictions, a new report says.

Socialists across the globe in countries such as India, Brazil, and the United States celebrate the Manifesto and all “Red Books” that shaped the world.

“As Africans living in the belly of the beast of imperialism we recognize that our domestic struggle against police terrorism, super exploitation, and domestic colonization are themselves part of the larger anti-imperialist struggle of the underdeveloped world.”

In 2021, after a year-long protest, India’s farmers brought about the repeal of three farm laws that were intended to ‘liberalize’ the agriculture sector. Now, in 2024, farmers are again protesting. The underlying issues and the facilitation of the neoliberal corporatization of farming that sparked the previous protest remain and have not been resolved.

A new Israeli Democracy Institute survey shows that 68% of Jewish Israelis oppose “the transfer of humanitarian aid to Gaza residents.”

At a rally against the House Un-American Activities Committee, insurgent playwright Lorrainne Hansberry called on artists to shake off the fear and incoherency of the world to defend the peoples’ rights.

Universities must be places where criticisms of official discourses, dominant worldviews can be voiced without fear of reprisal.

On the 59th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, two former security guards are speaking out for the first time about how they were falsely arrested by the New York Police Department as part of a conspiracy to remove his protection before he was killed.

All of this–the language of genocide, the genocide itself and the threats of committing a greater genocide–is rooted, not in a rational political theory, but in Zionism.

Wednesday was a day of shame for the House of Commons. Few powers around the world are more important in supporting Israel’s genocidal attack on the Palestinians of Gaza than Britain.