Students have taken the lead in the struggle to defend Turkish democracy. Their activism reflects anger at the jailing of Istanbul mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu but also a long erosion of social rights which has torn away their future. University students demonstrate against...
The US trade war is a result of domestic elites’ refusal to accept America’s relative decline. The recent experience of Japan shows how economic decline can be managed. Toyota advertisement on the street in Tokyo, in October 1984, Japan. (Marc Tulane / Gamma-Rapho via...
There is a direct line in Central America stretching back more than a century from US-backed military intervention, to support of reactionary oligarchies, to devastating neoliberal restructuring, to the migration crisis now exploited in US politics. An injured...
South Korea’s Constitutional Court has finally impeached disgraced right-wing president Yoon Suk-yeol after his failed coup last December. Yoon and his conservative allies have given a major boost to a far-right movement that is hostile to democracy. Yoon Suk-yeol at...
Based on the best-selling video game of all time, A Minecraft Movie is officially a megahit. If this is Hollywood’s savior, we’re all doomed. Still from A Minecraft Movie. (Warner Bros.) It is with a sense of incredulity that I find myself writing a review of A...
April 9, the day that the American Civil War ended in 1865, should be a national holiday celebrating the defeat of the Confederacy, the end of slavery, and the triumph of liberty. The surrender of General Robert E. Lee and his army to Lieutenant General Ulysses S....
Corporate dentistry is on the rise in Canada, lining investors’ pockets at the expense of patients’ oral health. Dental treatment should be fully incorporated into Canada’s universal health care system to prevent the nightmare of American-style dental care. In Canada,...
Among the many things the tumultuous last half decade has demonstrated is that “deglobalization” — the reduction of ties between regions of the world — is a traumatic process. Whether in a willful form like Brexit or through the temporary quarantines of the pandemic...
The US government and media instigate international fearmongering and saber-rattling on a regular basis. But the recent Chinese spy balloon incident belongs in the Hall of Fame as one of the most idiotic panics by a jittery, trigger-happy warfare state. President Joe...
In December 2022, TruckSol, a trade union of South Korean truck drivers, waged a massive 16-day strike that cost employers over $2 billion. The union’s history and organizing strategy have lessons for precariously employed workers around the world. Striking truck...
The overwhelming majority of Australian Labor Party federal MPs are landlords. Maybe that’s why they can’t solve the housing crisis. Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese speaks to media during a visit to North Metropolitan TAFE on February 20, 2023, in Perth,...
Born on this day in 1915, Claudia Jones became a leading figure in the US anti-racist movement who highlighted the oppression faced by black women. The US authorities deported Jones for her communist views in 1955, but they couldn’t snuff out her legacy. Claudia Jones...