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The Woman’s Story: Examining Pregnancy Narratives, Bodily Autonomy, and the Invisible Woman through Kalki Koechlin’s The Elephant in the Womb
Kalki Koechlin’s memoir presents a real and uncensored picture of pregnancy that explores how pregnant women’s bodies are positioned between the public and personal threshold.
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“The Mechanic and The Luddite: A Ruthless Criticism of Technology and Capitalism” – book review
Sadowski’s book based on the This Machine Kills podcast is an incisive and important demolition of illusions around technology and AI, argues Kevin Crane.
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Trump to Gaza: “We will replace you”
The U.S. president is reviving old-style colonialism.
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Trump and his distant forerunner
By glorifying the figure of William McKinley, president of the United States between March 4, 1897 and September 14, 1901, Donald Trump is trying to find a universally acclaimed precedent for his controversial policies in the political history of the United States.
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‘One of Them Days’ marks the triumphant return of the working class comedy
While most recent class satires have focused on the perspective of the wealthy, Lawrence Lamont and Syreeta Singleton’s film debut brings class-conscious comedy back to its roots.
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Far-right leaders gather in Madrid to “make Europe great again”
Far-right Patriots for Europe group meets in Madrid to lament loss of Europe’s supposed greatness.
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Dossier no. 85: The joy of reading
Reading and popular literacy programmes have played an important role in revolutionary processes, from the Mexican, Chinese, and Russian revolutions in the early twentieth century to today.
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Did a Trump executive order just cripple the global US regime change network?
With federal funding paused to USAID, pro-Western media outlets from Ukraine to Nicaragua are panhandling for donations, and a multi-billion dollar regime change apparatus is in panic mode.
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In Venezuela, the commune is not just a utopia: A conversation with Cira Pascual Marquina
The commune as both means and end in Venezuela’s socialist project.
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Sociology world mourns after hit-and-run driver on Grand Avenue kills legendary labor scholar
Michael Burawoy was struck while walking inside the crosswalk near Children’s Fairyland.
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Trump’s plan for Gaza heralds an age of naked fascism
“I watched Trump’s joint press conference with Netanyahu, in utter disbelief. Not that the idea, or indeed the practice, of ethnic cleansing of Palestine is new. But at that press conference the mask has fallen. Recently, fascism has been on the march everywhere, but that press conference seemed to herald an age of naked fascism.”
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Trump and the crisis of hegemony in the United States
Since the beginning of the process of colonization and conquest of the territories that are commonly called the United States, the idea of it being the land of abundance and opportunity has been promoted.
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With zero evidence, NPR suggests Trump may ‘work for working class’ in second term
“Can Trump’s Second Act Work for the Working Class While Giving Back to His Super Donors?” asks NPR.com
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Unprecedented anti-fascist, anti-racist march against Milei
One million people mobilized in the City of Buenos Aires–according to the organizers–as a result of the fuse lit by the LGBT community.
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Trump’s Executive Orders – The return of Cold War repression
In 1950, Nevada Democratic Senator Pat McCarran said he wanted to save the United States from communism and “Jewish interests.”
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The forever charade
Gitmo, Yesterday, Today… and Tomorrow
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In major expansion of U.S. nuclear buildup, Trump orders construction of nationwide missile defense system
The executive order “directs implementation of a next-generation missile defense shield for the United States against ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missile, and other next-generation aerial attacks.”
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Nazi billionaires: Fascism in the Elon Musk family tree
It’s not a secret that Elon Musk embraces fascist and reactionary political movements.
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The oligarchs’ picnic–what’s on the menu when Trump’s oligarchs negotiate with Putin’s oligarchs
Today we are at roughly the same point, but oligarchs think in commercial terms, not social or ethical ones. For the oligarchs, the point on both sides is that the sanctions war over the past three years has created the largest gap between true asset value and trade value which exists in the global market today–this is the gap between the pre-war bankable value of Russian commodities, resources, and corporate assets and their discounted price under sanctions.
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The Promethean aspirations of the darker Nations: The Fourth Newsletter (2025)
The U.S. sees the emergence of China and other Asian countries as a ‘fierce competition’. For the Global South, however, these developments bring new opportunities to pursue sovereign development.