Workers in the Spanish state are teaching us all how to deal effectively with the housing crisis.

Gaza is a generational touchstone and the key dividing line of politics in the West. It has laid bare the lies of the society we live in. It has exposed the genocidal bloodlust of the political right. And it has tested official “progressive” liberal politics.

The bosses are trying to convince workers that lower corporate taxes, fewer regulations and workers’ rights, and less union power would be good for real wages. What they really want is more profits.

Rebel teachers are taking the energy and inspiration of their industrial struggle against the Victorian government into the state election this November.

If you want to know how many lives our rulers are willing to sacrifice to defend the fossil fuel industry, you could start by looking at Europe.

On 4 July, the 100th anniversary of the Nazi Party’s second conference in the German state of Thuringia, the far-right Alternative for Germany (Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) held its federal party conference in a neighbouring city in the same state.

Just as slavery did not end because plantation owners suddenly developed a conscience, today’s ruling class will fight tooth and nail against making concessions to workers and the oppressed until they are forced to, from below.

The screaming about “tax grabs”, “death taxes”, “class war” and “communism” from the sorry brigade of start-up shysters, investors, small businesses, big capitalists, right-wing journos and politicians is an absolute festival of reaction.

Around the world, the political right is normalising misogyny and the sexual objectification of women.

Lenin stated that he became a Marxist in the rural town of Samara, south of Kazan.

The 2020s have been “a good decade for billionaires”, according to Oxfam’s annual report on global wealth inequality.

The shooting took place just six blocks from where George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis Police in 2020—the event that saw the Black Lives Matter movement explode into riots and protests across the U.S. and the world.

Marxists advocate a world in which the working class is in the driver’s seat.

Most of the Impressionist artists were from comfortable, if not wealthy, families. This relative privilege coloured their attitudes to contemporary events.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics does not collect data on “class”.

Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Western imperialism’s key military alliance, describe recently announced increases in European arms spending as a collective effort to “safeguard our freedom and democracy”.

Women are conditioned to accept sexism, but they are also able to rebel against it in the right circumstances.

The country’s ruling class had operated for centuries by pillaging its colonies while neglecting to build much industry at home. Portugal was the least developed country in Western Europe; 37 percent of the population couldn’t read or write.

Every dollar added to the world’s military budgets takes us closer to a potentially apocalyptic scenario of world war.

It’s a historic anniversary that the U.S. ruling class and its allies around the world wish we would forget.