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Global war on labor: Report says workers’ rights in freefall as right-wing power grows
Around the world, workers’ rights are in “freefall,” with the Trump administration in the lead of a global far-right alliance that’s waging a “global war on labor rights.”
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‘Dangerous times demand dangerous music’
CounterSpin interview with Tom Morello on music as protest.
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A retreat from justice: Shielding cops from accountability
Trump’s dismantling of police reform is a gift to white supremacy.
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Pizza goeth before a ball? Changes in Americans’ eating habits foretell a deep recession
In its February 24th earnings call with the financial press, Domino’s Pizza CEO Russell Weiner reported a 3.2 percent spike in carryout orders during the previous quarter, combined with a 1.4 percent decrease in deliveries.
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Is China finally breaking the U.S. stranglehold?
The U.S. is in desperate economic and military “competition” with China and has lost a lot of ground fast.
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Economics and the concept of progress
THE mercantilists had defined a nation’s prosperity in terms of the amount of precious metals it possessed and a nation’s progress in terms of the increase in its amount of precious metals.
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The ‘chaos’ of aid distribution in Gaza is not a system failure. The system is designed to fail.
Israel is using the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to condense Palestinians into increasingly narrow enclaves, forcing displacement through need. We are witnessing the rise of a new humanitarianism where aid sites double as kill zones.
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Wes Anderson takes on Western Imperialism: ‘The Phoenician Scheme’ – Review
This entertaining Wes Anderson satire on imperialist scheming combines a slightly weak plot with clever characterisation but is mysterious in its intention and timing, finds Lucy Nichols.
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Trump and the fantasy of a ‘White Genocide’
Irony is dead. It lies buried in Gaza, under the rubble the West helped create.
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Israel as a tool of U.S. imperialism
A number of notable parallels run through the histories of Israel and the United States.
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America is a scam
Donald Trump is many things: a racist, an authoritarian, a rapist… but what he is, and has always been, above all and from the very start, is a scammer.
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Charles Rangel and the end of Black politics
The late Charles Rangel served as a member of the Congressional Black Caucus for more than 40 years. But the goals of Black politics and electoral politics are not necessarily the same.
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The U.S. blockade on Cuba
As workers and socialists, Cuba’s struggle is our struggle.
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Trump’s ‘big beautiful’ cuts to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and more
Following is a fact sheet about how Trump’s “big beautiful” budget bill cuts essential services and benefits for workers to give to the wealthy.
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Outrage as Netanyahu says no mass starvation in Gaza, suggests Palestinians are overweight
Prime minister says Israel has photographs of thousands of unclothed prisoners, an ‘indication’ of sufficient food, as experts warn of looming famine.
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Donald Trump and Panama: A return to 1903?
A mobilization is beginning to defend national sovereignty, trampled by Yankee imperialism and local traitors.
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After Trump’s Harvard ban, China invites students with offers
Harvard faces legal and political turmoil after Trump revokes its ability to admit foreign students, but China responds with open offers.
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PUCL condemns the extrajudicial killing of Nambala Keshava Rao and 26 others in Chhattisgarh
The People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) strongly condemns the extrajudicial killing of Nambala Keshava Rao, General Secretary of the CPI (Maoist), and 26 others, many of whom were Adivasi residents, in an alleged encounter carried out under the guise of counterinsurgency operations in Narayanpur district, Chhattisgarh.
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SAFTU condemns imperialist blackmail disguised as diplomacy in Ramaphosa’s secret deal with Trump
The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) condemns in the strongest terms the disgraceful deception of the South African public by President Cyril Ramaphosa and his delegation during their recent meeting with Donald Trump in Washington.
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Extermination as negotiation: Understanding Israel’s strategy in Gaza
Whether it’s total conquest or managed containment, Israel doesn’t have a single grand strategy for Gaza, but it uses the possibility of both to prolong the war.