Subjects Archives: Inequality

Nine-year-old Wafaa Akila was killed with her father in Gaza City after leaving school to buy supplies for the new year.

We are now well into the sixth year of the Starbucks Coffee organizing drive, certainly a remarkable movement by any measure.

An investigation published by the Cubadebate Media Observatory on August 24, 2026, reconstructed a web of business, communication, and political relationships that connects Argentinian businessman Fernando Cerimedo with Miami and Washington.

Millions in U.S. defense funding are supporting university projects tied to Israeli military research, including surveillance technology, AI targeting systems, and drone development.

India was one of the countries studied, where the Nehru-Mahalanobis strategy of building heavy and capital goods industries was predictably the target of attack.

While capitalism confines the Global South to raw extraction and cheap exports, democratic planning can break dependence, claim technological control, and turn resources into collective economic power.

President Donald Trump’s executive order placing new restrictions on mail-in voting would assign state officials a Herculean task to reach compliance before the crucial midterm elections.

CounterSpin interview with Abdullah Shihipar on Medicare for All.

The system where women are systematically wrapped into sex work due to existing infrastructure and poverty, where U.S. military presence creates the demand, and where Western tourism perpetuates supply–this is femicide.

The Trump administration has cut staff, funding at agencies that track foodborne illnesses.

Fascism-forward nationalism, held patriotic by Hindutva, portends the imaginary of India as a Hindu Nation. In its pursuit, a “deeper state” has been established whose malevolent operations polarise and religionise the body politic.

Humans are part of the ‘animal kingdom’–and of nature in general – but also distinct from it and labour (work) is part of what makes us unique, declared Engels. His insights 150 years ago into how our species came to be and how we differ from the rest of nature, are as important today as they were then, says the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY.

The current energy blockade deprives the Cuban people of resources essential for their survival. It must end immediately and unconditionally.

Seneca Nation President J. Conrad Seneca said that on Aug. 28, the day after Donald Trump signed an executive order renaming Lake Ontario “Lake America.” Seneca called for the order to be rescinded and for the name to remain as it stands, reflecting the Seneca people, the other Haudenosaunee nations and all the Indigenous peoples around the lake.

In a few short years, “Abolish ICE” has gone from a position considered far too radical to receiving serious consideration from the Democratic National Committee.

While Trump’s gangster imperialism exacerbates the trade war with Canada, workers must not simply rally to the side of their own national capitalists, argues John Clarke.

The task is to recognize the political capacities that remain and to build relationships with those who continue to organize and struggle, here and abroad.

So far in 2026, Cuba has received a single shipment of oil: some 100,000 metric tons of crude donated by Russia—and nothing else.

The sanctions mean all property and interests in property of the groups or individuals that are in the U.S. “or in the possession or control of U.S. persons” are blocked.

By Aug. 21, the Cyclospora outbreak linked to shredded iceberg lettuce sold by Taylor Farms had sickened 10,930 people in 17 states, hospitalized 454 and killed two. The illnesses began June 14 and continued through Aug. 11.