Geography Archives: Americas

Lindsey German on POTUS in the last chance saloon.

Composing a history of Detroit is an exercise in tying together many economic and social trends within a microcosm of class, race, and fraught politics. Mark Jay and Philip Conklin’s work discusses the 20th-century history of the city to offer a documentation of class struggle seen through the industrialization of the city in the early 20th century, the racial tensions of the post-World War II period, and, finally, the simultaneous processes of decay and development in the last three decades.

President Maduro called to “shake the foundations of the Venezuelan bourgeois state […] and build a communal, democratic state of the people.”

This year, Brazil and China celebrate fifty years of official diplomatic relations. The importance of the Sino-Brazilian relationship cannot be underestimated in the context of the rise of the Global South, the decline of U.S. hegemony, and the emergence of a New Cold War. With a look back into the history of bilateral relations, how can we understand the importance of these two countries in the current conjuncture in pushing forward changes unseen in a century?

In his first meeting with a foreign head of state, President-elect Donald Trump hosted fascist Argentine President Javier Milei at a gala dinner on Thursday at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

They embody a party that crossed over to the dark side years ago.

With spotlight on politicians and their pledges in Baku, fossil fuel lobbyists are racking up private meetings with Trudeau’s government.

Deborah Veneziale provides a useful analysis of the 2024 US elections.

Donald Trump’s cabinet picks are a declaration of war against the entire working class. These choices are a domestic version of the Pentagon’s “shock and awe” invasion tactics and are meant to smash any opposition.

Irrespective of the rhetoric that characterized the campaign, the world’s majority will continue to be compelled to struggle against imperialist exploitation and oppression.

A new report from Britain’s Sky News provides details of Adnan al-Bursh’s death by torture in Israel’s Ofer Prison.

Hurricanes Helene and Milton are the result of a long legacy of segregation, environmental racism, and extraction. This white supremacist capitalist system has brought us to this point in our climate crisis and puts marginalized people directly in the path of the destruction it causes.

The infamous Project 2025, a conservative policy agenda many see as a blueprint for the second Trump term, calls for the end to public broadcasting, because it is viewed as liberal propaganda.

On election night, despite receiving 57% of the vote, a ballot measure which would have restored abortion rights for Floridians failed. 

The political philosophy of classical liberalism, which provided the basis for liberal political praxis, was sustained by a long tradition of bourgeois economic thought, straddling both classical political economy and neo-classical economics.

“Every single Democrat who voted for this is not taking the threat of Trump remotely seriously and should be disqualified from any leadership positions moving forward,” said Georgia State Rep. Ruwa Romman.

UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese speaks to Tribune about Israel’s genocide as a form of ‘colonial erasure’—and why the Palestinian cause is a symbol of resistance against all forms of exploitation.

Russia has announced a $60 million diesel shipment to Cuba during bilateral meeting in Havana.

How an Indigenous commune in the Venezuelan Amazon has resisted the U.S. blockade.

On Nov. 5, voters in 10 states were presented with ballot initiatives on abortion with seven states passing pro-abortion rights measures, including in states with currently restrictive abortion laws as well as in states carried by Donald Trump.