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Harry Magdoff Memorial Library: The Hidden Library of Marx, Lenin, and Mao in Kathmandu
In the basement of Helping Hands Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, there is a meeting room. Its left and right sides are lined with stacks of large books, some with torn covers. These are rare books about Marx, Lenin, Stalin, and others. They sit like prisoners, yearning for readers to set them free. The place is known as Harry Magdoff Memorial Library.
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To cozy up to Trump, Bezos banishes dissent from WaPo
“When billionaires talk about ‘personal liberties,’” media critic Parker Molloy noted, “they’re usually thinking about their personal liberty to avoid taxation and regulation.”
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Trump’s MAGA and deregulation
Trump sees the United States as just a big capitalist corporation of which he is chief executive.
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Remembering nuclear victims 71 years after the Castle Bravo test
Pushing for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons and War.
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The empire rebrands
The larger rebrand underway is seeing elite “reconciliation” under Trump and plutocrats line up behind the repackaging from a “woke” empire to a more old-fashioned version focused on race, religion and more brazen exploitation.
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Trump approves $3 billion in arms sales to Israel without U.S. Congressional approval
In a series of notifications sent to Congress on Friday, the State Department has reported it has approved the sale of more than 35,500 MK 84 and BLU-117 bombs and 4,000 Predator warheads worth $2.04 billion to Israel.
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The empire at its most honest
President Donald Trump has shared a shockingly awful AI-generated music video envisioning a future Gaza.
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Plundering Africa–Income deflation and unequal ecological exchange under structural adjustment programmes
Presenting new research, Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel mount a devastating critique of the impact of structural adjustment in Africa in the 1980s and 1990s. Drawing on recent data on Africa’s material resource use, Sullivan and Hickel show how during this period structural adjustment programmes led to a significant increase in ‘unequal ecological exchange’, a process whereby African countries were compelled to export more materials, energy, and other resources than they received in imports. The difference between the two, Sullivan and Hickel argue, represented a transfer of real tangible materials from Africa to the capitalist world economy, for free.
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Imperialism’s revival strategy
The Trump strategy for the revival of imperialism amounts to having one’s cake and eating it too.
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Trump’s Nationalist Conservative White Christian Agenda
The Trump-orchestrated blitzkrieg exposition of a Nationalist Conservative White Christian Agenda raises a series of questions, including: What are the internal contradictions within the US ruling class that have given rise to recent developments? What are the underlying changes within the base and superstructure of the United States? What are the long-term ideological and political consequences on US foreign policy? How should the Global South respond?
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U.S. House adopts budget plan to spearhead social counterrevolution
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday night took the first step in the Trump administration’s plans for devastating cuts in social spending, particularly on healthcare, adopting an initial budget plan by a 217-215 vote.
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The House Republicans’ plan to cut Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for the rich would slash incomes for the bottom 40%
The clearest legislative priority of the Trump administration and the Republican-led Congress is to keep taxes low for the richest households and corporations.
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The crimes and victims of Italian colonialism: A story that must be told, beginning with Yekatit 12 የካቲት ፲፪
Today’s countries such as the United Kingdom, Belgium, and France have, to varying degrees, confronted their imperial legacies, however incomplete or contested these reckonings may be.
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Standing up to Fox News
Despite shifting political climate, media reformers press forward with Fox News TV license challenge.
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Specter of stagflation spooks Wall Street
On Friday, February 21, all the major U.S. stock indices fell.
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The U.S. saw just half of the number of strikes in 2024 as Canada
This past week, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) at Cornell University once again released the annual report of its Labor Action Tracker (LAT), which records all strikes and lockouts in the United States.
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Yes, Ukraine started the war
The outcry spread quickly across the Western world: Donald Trump dared say Ukraine started the war.
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Condemn and Counter U.S. Imperialist Aggression and War in the Philippines
This month marks the 126th anniversary of the Philippine-American war and the start of U.S. imperialist domination in the Philippines. We call on all friends of the Filipino people and struggle to expose the ongoing U.S. imperialist war in the Philippines and counter it with all our might.
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Israel pushes new atrocity narrative just as ceasefire deadline approaches
A new narrative is being aggressively pushed by Israel and its apologists to justify resuming the Gaza genocide, conveniently just as an important deadline for ceasefire negotiations draws near.
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Free Yves Engler
In today’s Canada, offending Zionist influencers is enough to land you behind bars.