• | Gustavo Gutiérrez PHOTO Ministerio de Educación del Perú Facebook | MR Online

    Gustavo Gutiérrez’s revolutionary mission

    On 22 October, at the age of 96, one of the key figures of liberation theology passed away.

  • | Argentinian university students hold a class in the street Buenos Aires October 2024 PHOTO Alessia MaccioniReuters | MR Online

    Inside Argentina’s university occupations

    Students are occupying more than 70 different faculties of 30 public universities across Argentina.

  • | Israeli soldiers in the Lebanese city of Sidon in 1983 PHOTO GPO | MR Online

    Israel’s history of aggression against Lebanon

    Israel’s latest murderous assault on Lebanon is part of a recurring pattern of imperialist aggression.

  • | Blue Collar Empire The Untold Story of US Labors Global Anticommunist Crusade By Jeff Schuhrke Verso 2024 352 pages | MR Online

    How U.S. union leaders worked with the CIA to undermine democracy

    Soon after Israel launched its genocidal war in Gaza with the full support of the U.S. government, opposition emerged to the Biden administration in a place that many professional political commentators found confounding: within U.S. trade unions.

  • | Karl Marx | MR Online

    Karl Marx: More than an economist

    In his lifetime, Karl Marx witnessed the establishment of capitalism as an all-encompassing, global system, and with it the international working class—a force capable of radical social transformation.

  • | 3M logo under magnifying glass by Marco Verch under Creative Commons 20 | MR Online

    How a giant corporate cover-up poisoned the planet—and everyone on it

    In 1998, the head toxicologist at 3M estimated that a safe level of PFAS in human blood is about one part per billion. The average American’s blood has not double, not triple, but 30 times that amount.

  • | Melbourne city skyline seen from Preston in the northern suburbs PHOTO Adobe Stock | MR Online

    Cities must be adapted for climate change

    In the past few years, whole towns have been wiped out by fire and flood, suburbs have been inundated by floodwaters or storm surges in Sydney and Melbourne, and extreme heat is putting more people in hospitals.

  • | Get rich or cry trying PHOTO Vox | MR Online

    The billionaire ‘nepo baby’ boom

    In every country and culture, capitalism depends on an ideological mirage of equal opportunity and reward for effort, to conceal, as much as possible, the reality of brutal exploitation and inequality.

  • | Julian Assange | MR Online

    What Julian Assange taught us about empire

    The truth, it turns out, won’t set you free: under capitalism it can get you locked up. That’s what Julian Assange discovered when he spoke truth to power.

  • | Billionaires go bunkers | MR Online

    Billionaires go bunkers

    The year is 2070. A global catastrophe—climate change, nuclear winter, civil war: pick your poison—recently ended civilisation and opened a new chapter in your life.

  • | Lenin in his own words five key texts | MR Online

    Lenin in his own words: five key texts

    Vladimir Lenin, leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution, is one of history’s most well-known figures, and one of its most maligned. Mainstream culture vilifies him as a despot. 

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    Rich whingers dominate Australian politics

    Australia’s richest people are by far the country’s biggest whingers.

  • | The importance of a mass movement | MR Online

    The importance of a mass movement

    Mass protests change people. The act of collectively standing together pushes aside the powerlessness we experience in everyday life, builds confidence and generates a sense of strength.

  • | Davos | MR Online

    At Davos, the inmates run the asylum—and the world

    The World Economic Forum (WEF) is the ruling-class Comic-Con, a fantasy fortress where the 1 percent’s 1 percent can save the world that they are sending to hell.

  • | Electric Life Teresa van Dongen | MR Online

    Thirty years of failure on climate: How did it come to this?

    It’s more than 50 years since scientists first came to understand that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from human activities could be drivers of a potentially catastrophic warming of the world’s climate.

  • | Everyone is Hitler when it suitsjust not Western leaders | MR Online

    Everyone is Hitler, when it suits—just not Western leaders

    A few signs depicting Benjamin Netanyahu as Adolf Hitler were postered in Sydney over the weekend. The police reportedly are investigating and urging people to contact Crime Stoppers if they have any “information in relation to the incident”.

  • | Food | MR Online

    How capitalism killed nutrition

    Review of ‘Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop?’ By Chris van Tulleken.

  • | Sam Bankman Fried | MR Online

    Sam Bankman-Fried and the moral abyss of the market

    “There will probably never be anything I can do to make my lifetime impact net positive”, Sam Bankman-Fried wrote in his diary after the collapse of his cryptocurrency company FTX.

  • | Coral bleaching off Heron Island in Queensland in 2016 Credit The Ocean AgencyXL Catlin Seaview SurveyRichard Vevers | MR Online

    Everybody knows the reef is dying

    Environment Minister Tanya Plibersek last week welcomed a UNESCO World Heritage Committee decision not to list the Great Barrier Reef as “in danger”. But what is “great news” to Plibersek is not great news for the reef. 

  • | The roots and reality of racism in France | MR Online

    The roots and reality of racism in France

    Liberté. Egalité. Fraternité. That was the slogan with which the French masses overthrew the hated monarchy in 1789.