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25 years ago, 9/11 triggered a U.S. crusade of torture
A quarter-century has passed since the terrorist attack that killed almost 3,000 people in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.
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UK rejects Jamaica’s historic demand for reparations for slavery
The UK government has firmly rejected this Monday Jamaica’s demand for financial reparations for its role in the transatlantic slave trade, as a Jamaican delegation formally requested £10 billion in compensation from King Charles III.
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The ‘longstanding tradition’ of defense corruption in Ukraine
Western media mostly ignore the issue. It only comes up when it is needed to interfere in favor of this or that faction within Ukraine.
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Fifty Years After Mao: A Legacy for Changing the Current of History
The revolutionary period left more than a founding image. It created institutions, social expectations, and forms of political work that continue to move within the society built upon them.
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Who was Wafaa Akila, the Gaza girl killed on her first day of school?
Nine-year-old Wafaa Akila was killed with her father in Gaza City after leaving school to buy supplies for the new year.
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The remarkable Starbucks uprising: Has the Labor Movement learned anything?
We are now well into the sixth year of the Starbucks Coffee organizing drive, certainly a remarkable movement by any measure.
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Cerimedo: MAGA comes to Latin America
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.
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Israeli military taps 30 U.S. universities for AI, drones, and robotics
Millions in U.S. defense funding are supporting university projects tied to Israeli military research, including surveillance technology, AI targeting systems, and drone development.
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A theoretical sleight-of-hand
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.
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Why the Global South needs an industrial policy: The Thirty-Sixth Newsletter (2026)
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.
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Why the rushed Postal Service plan for mail-in voting has states in a panic
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.
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‘Medicare for all is a system that can absolutely be built in the U.S.’
CounterSpin interview with Abdullah Shihipar on Medicare for All.
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The USS Lincoln’s ‘leisure trip’ to Thailand: a port call of U.S. neocolonialism and femicide
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.
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A summer of recalls exposes holes in the nation’s food safety net
The Trump administration has cut staff, funding at agencies that track foodborne illnesses.
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Fascism-Forward: Into the shadows with Hindu Nationalism
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.
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Where did we come from? How did we get here?
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.
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Defend Cuba and Demand the Lifting of the U.S. Energy Blockade and Embargo
The current energy blockade deprives the Cuban people of resources essential for their survival. It must end immediately and unconditionally.
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Seneca Nation rejects Trump’s colonial claim on Lake Ontario
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.
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Abolish ICE? Perish the thought, says Press
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.
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U.S. Canada trade war intensifies
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.
