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Modernisation does not mean capitalism: The Thirty-Eighth Newsletter (2026)
For the Global South, development cannot be achieved by imitating the capitalist West; it requires breaking imperialist dependency through the defence of sovereignty, socialist planning, and the transformation of social relations.
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Cars out, weapons in at Volkswagen’s Osnabrück factory
Volkswagen’s plant in Osnabrück, Germany, is running out of cars. Weapons production is moving in.
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Ecuador: Criminal submission
A chilling aspect of the assault on the people of Ecuador is that it is led by an individual against whom there is strong evidence of links to large-scale drug trafficking: between 2020 and 2025, at least eight large shipments of cocaine—camouflaged in banana crates belonging to the Noboa family and destined for Europe—were seized.
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Displaced Chagossians are among victims of Iran war
The Trump administration is blocking an agreement that would allow Chagossians who were displaced 60 years ago to return to their homeland.
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A Predatory State: Excavating the Architecture of Zionist Depravity
The Report makes clear that sexualized violence is not an episodic add-on to occupation and genocide. Rather, it is a foundational, legalized aspect of the Zionist project.
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The university’s deportable workers
International students occupy a peculiar position within the contemporary university.
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Pentagon’s secret plan: Reviving Cold War doctrines to lower the threshold for nuclear war
The American public will need many more voices and new collective efforts to erect more barriers to nuclear war, not give a president more options for starting one.
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Riyadh phones Tel Aviv: From petro-power to palace panic
For decades, the Saudi state cultivated the mythology of sovereignty while constructing one of the most elaborate systems of strategic dependency in modern history.
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‘You can pay off many, you can’t pay off me’: How solidarity brought Ed Sheeran low
The axing of Macklemore from Ed Sheeran’s tour is the latest attempt by pro-Israel pressure to push back on an argument that’s lost, but solidarity wins over fear, argues Dave Randall
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Covert Pentagon propagandists are tracking anti-war Americans, skirting the law
Datarepublican was identified in 2025 as Jennica Pounds, a Utah-based mother with nearly a million followers whose stated raison d’etre is “fighting communists”–a moniker she applies liberally to anyone perceptibly to the left of Barry Goldwater.
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Venezuela’s Asymmetric Negotiation with the United States: A Conversation with William Castillo
“Many look at this too much from outside, from the Global North, without really trying to understand our reasoning, what’s actually at stake for Venezuela, and why Venezuela is doing what it’s doing.”
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From Allende to Chávez: 2 popular models, same imperialist and oligarchic conspiracy
As Chile commemorates the 1973 coup, the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro confirms that the U.S. conspiracy against popular projects in Latin America has not stopped, it has merely changed its name.
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Macklemore’s tour cancellation shows why celebrities don’t criticize Israel
American oligarchs kicking an artist off a tour for supporting Palestine is a very in-your-face illustration of why mainstream culture is so vapid and fake these days.
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USA votes against entire world, opposing equal representation of Africa, as it pushes to revive colonialism
The U.S. was the only country to oppose a UN resolution replacing a colonial world map from year 1569, which misrepresents Africa’s size. This is part of the Trump admin’s overt attempt to revive colonialism.
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Norman Finkelstein’s latest book indicts those ‘in high places’ for genocide in Gaza
A review of Norman Finkelstein’s ‘Gaza’s Gravediggers,’ which indicts not Israel’s military, but the global officials and institutions, such as the UN, the ICJ, and the media, who enabled and legitimized the genocide.
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International trade theory not developmental
Most free trade advocates falsely claim comparative advantage ensures developmental gains for all from trade liberalisation. But even mainstream theory doesn’t promise partial liberalisation is better.
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Big firms spent at least $1.7B on union-busting last year
The nation’s corporations spent $1.7 billion on union-busters last year—and that figure actually is an understatement.
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Honor the Vietnamese, Not Those Who Killed Them
Only the courage of those who opposed the war, including the soldiers who did so at great risk, should be respected.
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Why don’t systemic crises always lead to revolutions?
For a long time, it was believed that a structural economic crisis, like the one the world is experiencing today, would be followed by a general political crisis and then social unrest and revolutions. However, these are exceptional cases.
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‘Failure of epic proportions’: Yemen’s lightning assault fractures Saudi-led coalition
Sources told U.S. media that the Ansarallah-led Yemeni army’s opponents, already weakened in recent days, faced ‘waves and waves’ of Sanaa’s forces in the latest battle.
