Subjects Archives: Inequality

A lot of social media users have been wondering why their feeds have been filled with far-right, often racist, content. For me, it started with more conservative media outlets and Republican politicians in my feed.

Former Conindustria President Luigi Pisella, who is also a member of the Venezuelan government-created Special Commission for the Evaluation and Classification of Public Assets, has revealed that Washington retained approximately U.S. $4.7 billion of Venezuela’s oil-export income during the first half of 2026 as “payment” for the U.S. military operation that resulted in the January 3 bombing of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores.

AI as a broad technology is not our problem any more or less than are computers, the internet, or email. Rather, the problem is with the class interests shaping its development.

“As a trans man, I have the immense privilege of blending in. But these laws force me to choose between safety and obeying the law.”

The Tsinghua economist welcomes China’s new offshore trust tax rules and reflects on the stark disparity between taxes on capital and labour.

Chris Bambery explores the life and work of Latvian Bolshevik, Asja Lācis.

One year ago today, Donald Trump launched a federal takeover of Washington, D.C. intended to soft-launch martial law and pacify a city with a deep revolutionary history.

Though it is striving to fulfill the White House’s demand for more arrests, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is still falling short of the Trump administration’s announced goal of 2,000 arrests per day.

Despite the heroic struggle of the people of Hiroshima, 81 years ago today, and of Nagasaki, the horrors of 1945 have too often been forgotten or ignored, says Peter Kuznick.

A call for Jewish organizations around the world to publicly endorse the BDS movement and support coordinated nonviolent pressure to end Israeli impunity.

The energy blockade that the Trump administration has imposed on Cuba is hammering the island.

Japanese workers get the bill first: a weaker currency, costlier food and fuel, and wages that buy less. They had no say in the war being waged in their name.

There can be no doubt whatsoever that these weapons and ammunition were actually used by Israel in Gaza; in fact missile fragments labelled “Made in India” were found in a UN-run school in Nuseirat in Gaza sheltering displaced Palestinians, after an Israeli raid on it that killed 33 persons.

A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women.

While popular energy can fill streets and win elections, social power is the patient, organised capacity of the working class to transform society and make dignity the common sense of the age.

The nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki resulted in the deaths and fatal injuries of more than 210,000 people, who either died instantaneously or within months.

The congressional grilling of former White House Covid advisor Anthony Fauci, and the resulting editorial responses, weren’t good faith inquiries into the pandemic.

For over six decades, Cuba has been cast as a strategic threat not because of its military power, but because its enduring sovereignty and resistance to US dominance challenge Washington’s control over the hemisphere.

What happened in the final hours before the first atomic attack.

He was one of thousands of immigrants arrested during Operation Metro Surge.