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Germany backs Netanyahu for the same reason it created Hitler
On 12 January, the day commemorating the 1904 revolt of the Herero people against German colonialism, Olaf Scholz’s government announced that it would intervene in the International Court of Justice to oppose South Africa’s charge of genocide against Israel.
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One of the largest unions in the United States just called for a ceasefire in Gaza
The Service Employees International Union, which boasts two million members, joined a growing section of the U.S. labor movement in calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
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The dialectics of constituted and communal power: A conversation with Ángel Prado
The main spokesperson of El Maizal Commune is trying to put institutional power at the service of the commune.
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‘Beyond catastrophic’ – Red Cross says situation in Gaza is getting worse
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 25,105 Palestinians have been killed, and 62,681 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
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Through the “Bolivar Act” U.S. congressmen intend to tighten the blockade against Venezuela
The U.S. political class continues to apply its economic and financial gunboat diplomacy disguised as progressive humanitarianism.
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U.S. planning to establish new drone bases in Ghana, Ivory Coast and Benin
Journalist Nick Turse has shown that terrorist attacks have spiked exponentially as a result of the growing U.S. military presence in the Sahelian region.
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‘Lethal assets’: U.S. finance capital owns the bombs falling on Palestine
Lenin on the economic essence of war.
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A minimum-wage increase can benefit the whole economy
CounterSpin interview with Sebastian Martinez Hickey on minimum wage.
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Gaza war offers the ultimate marketing tool for Israeli arms companies
As investors worldwide drop cash on Israeli start-ups for ‘battle-tested’ weapons, defence tech CEOs are poised to be the war’s only victors.
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Communication by and for the People: A conversation with Thierry Deronne (Part I)
A documentary filmmaker and teacher tells the story of Venezuela’s groundbreaking community media movement.
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Lenin, state and revolution: an introduction
As part of our series commemorating 100 years since Lenin’s death, we repost Dragan Plavšić’s take on a classic text.
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Beijing will be quietly pleased with the decline of Taiwan’s separatist vote
It is almost unanimous, then. Most Western media have given us the lowdown.
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United Against Nuclear Iran: The shadowy, Intelligence-linked group diving the U.S. towards war with Iran
In the wake of Hamas’ October 7 assault, arch-neoconservative official John Bolton was invited on CNN, where he claimed that what we witnessed was really an “Iranian attack on Israel using Hamas as a surrogate” and that the U.S. must immediately respond.
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Bombing Yemen–as British as afternoon tea
The UK military’s latest bombing of Yemen comes on the 60th anniversary of a forgotten British campaign in the country involving brute force and deliberate attacks on civilians, declassified files show.
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What does ‘rules-based International Order’ mean when U.S. can bomb Yemen at will?
What U.S. foreign policy shamelessly amounts to is this: “We make the rules so we get to break the rules.”
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Thoughts on Abolition
Since 2020, there has been a gradual realization about the limitations of various strategies, ideologies, and political approaches, particularly in the context of using “abolition” as a catch-all umbrella.
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Insorgiamo: The story of how workers of an Italian factory are creating history
Laid-off workers of the former GKN plant in Campi Bisenzio, who have been leading a 900-day long struggle, have proposed to take over the plant by forming a cooperative to facilitate futuristic production.
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The “Ghost Budget”: How America pays for endless war
There were three primary drivers of the Ghost Budget: unusual economic conditions, congressional budget dysfunction, and military assertiveness.
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Upsurge of neo-fascism and ‘dollarisation’
Neo-fascist rulers like Javier Milei propose to control inflation not by curbing capital flight, but by launching a massive attack on the working class.
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Germany’s Left Party leaders pay homage to arch-reactionary Wolfgang Schäuble
Since Wolfgang Schäuble’s death on December 26, politicians and the media have been lavishing praise on the long-serving Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party chairman and Finance and Interior Minister