Seth Harp’s best-selling The Fort Bragg Cartel exposes the degree to which America’s drug trade and attendant violent crime are connected to its foreign wars. It’s a timely read as Donald Trump uses both to justify radical new expansions of military power. Special...
The American economy seems headed in the opposite direction of the “golden age” Donald Trump promised in his inaugural address. “Normal” capitalism is never a picnic for the working class, but full-blown recession is far worse. (Yasin Ozturk / Anadolu via Getty...
More than 50 years after Augusto Pinochet’s coup, apologists for its neoliberal dictatorship are close to taking office. But Communist Jeannette Jara could block them from taking power. A September 7 poll shows Communist Party candidate for president of Chile...
Our encounters with the direct labor of others, not to be confused with the labor embedded in the phone we swipe or the strawberry we eat, could in principle be mapped in starburst networks, thick and thin lines of varying lengths indicating intensity and frequency....
The assassination of Charlie Kirk threatens to embolden the far right and provide Donald Trump with a pretext for crushing dissent. Escalating political violence corrodes democratic norms and poses a unique threat to the Left. The killing of Charlie Kirk seems further...
Despite her anti-Trump posturing, New York governor Kathy Hochul is hardly a paragon of progressivism. But winning her over on at least some key issues is crucial for a socialist mayoralty’s success. Does the Left have any leverage over Hochul? New York State...
After bitterly attacking Joe Biden’s foreign policy as incompetent, chaotic, and likely to leave the Middle East in flames, Donald Trump has continued everything that made Biden’s final year so disastrous — only dumber and more violent. Not only has Donald Trump...
The era of US-led capitalist globalization seems to be coming to an end. For Filipino scholar and activist Walden Bello, it’s time to build a new, more equal distribution of power and resources around the globe. For Walden Bello, the dismantling of US global hegemony...
Union approval is at historic highs, yet density keeps falling. The problem isn’t messaging but the lack of strategy that can turn popularity into power. SEIU workers walk off the job at Los Angeles General Medical Center. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times via Getty...
Immigration raids and detention aren’t just political theater — they supply corporations with cheap, captive labor and help roll back protections for all workers. Behind the language of border security lies coerced labor that echoes the convict lease era. In Florida,...
Not just Israel’s leaders are responsible for the genocide but also all those who support them. The Gaza Tribunal held in London last week heard evidence of direct British government involvement in Israel’s crimes. Dr Shahd Hammouri, Jeremy Corbyn (C), and Professor...
China and the US are currently locked in a dangerous rivalry, but things don’t have to be this way. We spoke to Dan Wang, the author of a new book which argues the two nations should learn from one another. Construction workers building the high-speed rail network in...