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Venezuela’s presidential elections: Maduro plays hardball but there are drawbacks
Historian and political analyst Steve Ellner lays down the political stakes and US meddling ahead of Venezuela’s electoral race.
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A mirror of our immediate future
On Green Imperialism and Palestine.
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USAID’s disinformation primer: Global censorship in the name of democracy
A report from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) outlines how the government agency has been encouraging governments, tech platforms, establishment media outlets and advertisers to work together to censor huge swaths of the Internet.
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Ukrainian mercenaries are expanding their activity in Africa
Every day, there is more and more new evidence of the presence of military special forces of the Ukrainian Main Directorate of Intelligence in Sudan.
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Latin America responds with unanimous condemnation to Ecuador’s storming of the Mexican Embassy in Quito
Latin American and Caribbean leaders and governments from across the political spectrum have condemned the incursion into Mexico’s embassy as a grave violation of international law.
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Labor breakthrough: Workers winning victories once thought impossible
Zoomers and millennials want to turn low-wage retail and service sector jobs into stable, good-paying union jobs.
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‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.
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Central bank independence as class war strategy
Insulated from popular discontent, independent central banks have free reign to undermine workers’ rights and further the neoliberal agenda, argues John Clarke.
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U.S. workers forced to bail out Intel, a top 100 company
President Biden announced the grant, part of the massive $280 billion CHIPS Act, on March 20 in Arizona.
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Dr Rose Dugdale–Fighter for Irish freedom, student of Chairman Mao
Rose was born into immense wealth and privilege in England but gave it all up to devote her life to the working and oppressed people of the world and to the liberation of Ireland and the fight for a socialist republic in particular.
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The Sahel’s ‘Axis of Resistance’
The African Sahel is revolting against western neocolonialism–ejecting foreign troops and bases, devising alternative currencies, and challenging the old multinationals. Multipolarity, after all, cannot flower without resistance paving its path.
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Why non-profit news might not be such a great idea
Journalism funded by foundations could deliver a dystopian info-hellscape of pink slime and dark money.
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Nato’s insatiable expansionism: The bombing of Yugoslavia 25 years on
Nato’s war against Yugoslavia in 1999 was a prelude to the war in Ukraine, says Dragan Plavšić.
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How CIA and MI6 created ISIS
Contrary to their mainstream portrayal, as inspired purely by religious fundamentalism, Daesh are primarily guns for hire.
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‘Too soon to tell’: On revolutionary temporality
The Dialectics of Time and Revolutionary Struggle.
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War on Gaza: We were lied into genocide. Al Jazeera has shown us how
Myth-busting documentary finally breaks the stranglehold of Israel and its western media acolytes over the story of what happened on 7 October.
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Samir Amin’s last two battles
Shortly before his death, in a series of writings, Samir Amin unfolded the two issues that mainly concerned him. The first was China’s refusal to succumb to financial globalization, that is, to the totalitarian power of global financial capital; the second was the need to build a “Fifth International.”
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Capitalism’s New Age of Plagues (Part 3)
Covid-19 was the least unexpected pandemic in history. Why were governments not prepared?
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Institutionalized corruption: India’s electoral bonds scandal exposes Modi’s money laundering machine
On February 15, 2024, a five-judge Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court of India declared in a unanimous verdict that the electoral bond scheme of anonymous corporate donations to political parties was unconstitutional.
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Three lies about Cuba debunked
All across the corporate media today, there are stories attacking Cuba and its revolution.