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Imagine you have considerable background as a progressive or revolutionary activist. You are a good communicator about war and peace, fascist trends,…
I entered the MARTA station at Peachtree Center in Atlanta at 5:45am on a Saturday. I needed to get to the Atlanta/Hartsfield…
US President Donald Trumā’s state visit to China will go down in history as the day the United States finally acknowledged Beijingās…
The notion that the US is an empire in decline has been a recurring theme in international relations literature since the 1980s.…
Heralded with much Trumpian pomp before the event, the May 2026 summit between President Xi Jinping of the Peopleās Republic of China…
Perhaps some things should never be spoken ā for, when they are, they leave us aghast, in a state of horror. Think…
What we today call renewable energy was once Americaās only energy. From the start of European settlement of America to the late…
On the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, we remember that dispossession and exile are not mere footnotes of the past but living,…
Long before the Lone Star State started shifting, in the 1990s, from blue to redāafter a century of Democratic Party dominationāsome working-class…
The video is horrifying, though it is the kind of horror now synonymous with the behavior of Israel, its military, its armed…
The election redistricting decisions made last week by the Virginia Supreme Court, by a 4-3 margin, and the US Supreme Court, by…
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau dissect Keir Starmerās attempts to maintain power in a declining UK…
Germany pioneered Europeās crackdown on Palestine solidarity, and Britain is catching up fast ā proscribing solidarity groups as terrorist organisations, criminalising slogans,…
A review of Scott Kurashige, American Peril:Ā The Violent History of Anti-Asian Racism.Ā Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2026.Ā 341 pps.…
The world is at a precipice, facing existential threats while fascism is on the rise. Yet we lack the proper governance structures to address…
āIt is not enough to be against Donald Trump and MAGA, or against the control of both major parties in the USA…
[This is a transcript of Peter Bohmer’s Economics for Everyone panel discussion, “Stop U.S. Aggression Against Iran and Cuba”, MayĀ 7, 2026, in…
Much of the current discourse on the Middle East remains fixated on the US midterm congressional elections this coming November. This vote,…
Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, the former Finance Minister of Greece, and the author of numerous bestselling books. Varoufakis discusses why Europe…
We activists much less radicals much less revolutionaries face many difficulties. I donāt mean the pain and suffering imposed by grotesque social…
The US Supreme Courtās decision in Louisiana v Callais is the latest and probably most decisive blow to the Voting Rights Act…
While the labour movement often seems at its lowest ebb, what Marx identified as capitalismās main internal contradiction ā the overaccumulation of…
In the previous commentary we examined the impact of the Greentech revolution on the production of energy. But energy production is only…
America and Israelās aggression in Iran is the latest reminder that violent, expansionist powers will never cease in their desires for warfare…
The European Union is the āchief of all cowards,ā Amnesty International declared in a searing statement issued on April 21. The condemnation…
In the 1960s and 70s, conservative leaders of the AFL-CIO and many national unions viewed militant activists in the civil rights, anti-war,…
More than four months after Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin announced that he was breaking his promise to release its autopsy report on the 2024…
In this episode of The Econoclasts, Yanis Varoufakis and Wolfgang Munchau debunk the orthodox view that the newly established U.S. dollar swap…
The re-election of Donald Trump reignited a simmering feud between the progressive and centrist wings of the Democratic Party. While centrists have…
Whatever happened to the āpolycrisisā? A couple of years ago it was the buzzword of the world, describing a concatenation of interacting…
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) has announced that he, along with Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Rick Scott R-FL), have introduced a bill targeting what…
For many socialists and revolutionaries for a long time, the āworking classā has been seen as THE revolutionary group. Karl Marx in…
A dangerous right-wing solution to homelessness is to hide the unhoused in out-of-sight detention camps. A 2024 Treasury Department report articulated the leading cause…
Your chance to put Yanis Varoufakis on the spot. Politics, economics, philosophy ā or something completely unexpected. Nothing is off the table.…
A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capitalānetworked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour. And…
It is tempting to argue that Israelās new military doctrine is predicated on perpetual warābut the reality is more complex. Not that…
A respected human rights activist has spoken repeatedly against the US-Israeli aggression on Iran. She recognizes the illegality of the war and…
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A ceasefire in Lebanon was announced on Thursday by US President Donald Trump, but its reality tells a very different story. The…
The use of sun, wind, and water rather than fossil fuels to produce energy is transforming economies around the world. How far…
In the aftermath of last weekās big meeting of the Democratic National Committee in New Orleans, supporters of the U.S.-Israel alliance have…
What went wrong over the last decade ā and what can we learn from it? In this panel from DiEM25ās Resistance Is…
In the Middle East, the perception of ordinary Americans has long followed a familiar script: detached, uninformed, inward-looking, and politically shallowā a…
According to most mainstream media accounts, a āpolitical earthquakeā has taken place in Hungary. The European far rightās poster boy and MAGA…
There is a publishing house in Germany called Unrast Verlag that recently came to my attention. From its web site, I think…
Can the left still win, and what does resistance look like in a time of war, inequality, and political crisis? At DiEM25ās…
After the breakdown of talks in Pakistan, the ceasefire between the US and Iran is more fragile than ever, and now seems…
Israelās latest war on Lebanon is not only being waged from the air. It is being reinforced politically from within, as Beirut…
āIt is not enough to be anti-racist on a personal level or even, if you are a white person, to be in…
The knives are outāand this time, they are not aimed at Tehran, but at Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. Even the ever…
