The election for general secretary of UNISON, Britain’s biggest trade union, pits a faithful ally of Keir Starmer against a left-wing challenger who was expelled from the Labour Party by his factional minions. It could be Starmer’s next big headache. Keir Starmer’s...
A proposed solution to the plastic pollution crisis, "chemical recycling," is at best unproven and more likely disastrous for the environment. The EPA just removed the only regulatory obstacle to its widespread adoption. With oil and gas in decline, fossil fuel...
Like past waves of automation, AI isn’t going away. Boom or bust, the fight is over whose interests it will serve. Whether the AI hype deflates or investment keeps pouring in, capital is committed to forcing AI into the workplace, reshaping jobs and lowering labor...
France’s neoliberal government is expected to lose a confidence vote on Monday. For its opponents, the aim isn’t just to topple the current cabinet but to kill off President Emmanuel Macron’s whole austerity agenda. French premier François Bayrou has called for the...
Russian-speaking Ukrainians are among the main victims of Vladimir Putin’s invasion, and many have served in the Ukrainian army. The call to “decolonize” Ukraine by banishing Russian ignores this, imposing a vision of narrow cultural homogeneity. In Ukraine, language...
Zionists often insist that the use of the word “genocide” to describe Israeli actions in Gaza cheapens other past crimes. Yet in both scale and in intent, Israel’s destruction of Gaza conforms closely to historic genocides. Relatives and loved ones of Palestinians,...
Live entertainment giant Ticketmaster recently inserted language into its user agreements that steers customer lawsuits into a corporate-friendly private justice system, just months after a federal judge ruled its use of such processes was illegal. A federal court...
The Trump administration has begun deporting immigrants to Eswatini, one of Africa’s smallest countries and its only absolute monarchy. The Eswatini king and his entourage are natural partners for Donald Trump in this shameful, dehumanizing project. Since taking...
Thousands of workers at the JFK8 Amazon warehouse voted to unionize in 2022, sparking hope that we were witnessing a turning point for workers. The egregious union busting by Amazon that followed should have been a rallying cry for Democrats. It wasn’t. Union...
Turkey and Israel have long called on their ally Britain to crack down on solidarity groups that threaten their imperial domination. Keir Starmer’s government is increasingly playing along. Police officers arrest an eighty-nine-year-old protester at a “Lift the Ban”...
Let’s get one thing straight: the Green Bay Packers are the only socialist team in the NFL. Israel Abanikanda #23 of the Green Bay Packers runs the ball during the NFL Preseason 2025 game between the Green Bay Packers and the Indianapolis Colts at Lucas Oil Stadium on...
The Indonesian president, Prabowo, would like to turn the clock back to the dark days of the Suharto dictatorship. But he’s been confronted with an unexpected wave of protest after the killing of a young man by police in Jakarta, the country’s capital. A woman strikes...