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Assange victorious in High Court
The threat of immediate extradition has been lifted in today’s ruling against the U.S. government, reports John Rees from the court.
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Ian Angus’s “The War Against the Commons”: A vital new history of the bloody rise of capitalism
Primitive accumulation is the historical process through which capitalists stole their wealth or took it by force. Canadian ecosocialist Ian Angus has contributed an excellent new book on this history, covering the violent transition from feudalism to capitalism in depth while demonstrating its continuing relevance to the modern world..
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Israeli forces kill Palestinian students, teacher and doctor in Jenin assault
Troops open fire indiscriminately at Palestinians amid large-scale incursion in West Bank city.
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Capitalism’s new age of plagues. Part 5: The pandemic machines
In March, Cal-Maine Foods, the largest U.S. egg producer, reported that chickens in one of its Texas egg factories had contracted Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Type A–better known as Bird Flu. To stop the disease from spreading, the corporation slaughtered 1.6 million birds.
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A captive’s musings on freedom: Gautam Navlakha’s notes from prison
It is at a time like this that one faces a critical choice: to either fall silent and submit to the authorities or to continue to strive and struggle for freedom, unmindful of the outcome.
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CIA targeting smartphone app data
The same agencies that used and abused private user data with total impunity for years are being granted responsibility for crafting their own internal policies for what is and isn’t acceptable to intercept, analyse, exploit, and act upon.
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As corals bleach worldwide, some outlets are willing to name the cause: Fossil fuels
Record levels of heat in the ocean are causing once-colorful coral reefs around the world to bleach a ghostly white.
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A mad world: Capitalism and the rise of mental illness
What if it’s not us who are sick, asks Rod Tweedy, but a system at odds with who we are as social beings?
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Israel: State of denial
The lies. The packs of lies–deliberate, filthy, and deadly.
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The Global South in the Arctic North: Indigenous nations struggle for sovereignty
Indigenous nations fight for sovereignty in the Arctic regions of North America and Europe. Connecting their struggle to Palestine, they are resisting NATO militarization — as the US Army pledges to “regain Arctic dominance”.
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Schools should protect trans youth, not ‘out’ them
Young people from California to Alabama are under threat from policies that require school staff to alert parents if a student identifies as trans.
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‘Are you going to end the genocide, President Biden? That’s the central question’
CounterSpin interview with Ahmad Abuznaid on Rafah invasion.
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NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha to be released on bail after arrest ruled illegal
Police charged Prabir and NewsClick with colluding with foreign powers to sabotage India on the basis of a New York Times “hit piece” published in August 2023 which targeted several other anti-war organizations in the U.S. as well.
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Conga against Homophobia and Transphobia in Cuba defends peace in Palestine
Representatives of Cuban LGBTI activism and friends from other countries joined the parade calling for “All rights for all people”, organized by the National Center for Sex Education (Cenesex) as part of the Cuban Days against Homophobia and Transphobia, May 3-18.
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Elgar Parishad Case: After 4 years, activist-journalist Gautam Navlakha gets bail
Charges not framed yet… trial would take years and years and years for completion, observes the SC bench while lifting the stay on Bombay HC’s order granting bail in 2023.
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CNN exposes horrible Israeli torture methods on Palestinian detainees
According to the whistleblowers, the beatings inflicted upon detainees were said to be done out of spite and not intended for intelligence gathering.
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“I make $3500 worth of lattes each day. I take home $144.”
Blue Bottle rakes in hundreds of billions a year.
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Practicing science as class struggle
Tenant Unionism, Public Health, and Radical Science in Connecticut.
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An interconnected whole–an interview with Mark Duffield
ROAPE interviews Mark Duffield about his life and work.
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‘Found dead in Gaza’? No, murdered by Israel
After six year-old Hind Rajab was killed by the Israeli army, Britain’s national media failed to unequivocally pinpoint Israel as responsible, refused to follow up the story and cover important new information, and then moved on.