Mass mobilisations of the left brought down the French government, but these must be maintained to prevent the right from gaining from the crisis, argues John Mullen.
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Jobless claims highest in 4 years as tariff-driven layoffs, price hikes wreak havoc on U.S. workers
The working class must become the center of the fight against dictatorship, which is impossible without a struggle against the capitalist system itself.
The second Africa Climate Summit reveals the new face of colonialism; technocrats and cryptocolonization (Part 1, The setting).
The Africa Climate Summit is a greenwashing front for a new wave of colonialism. Under the guise of "nature-based solutions," corporations like the Gates Foundation are pushing schemes that will turn the continent into a carbon sink for the world's worst polluters.
Target boycott hits the bullseye
The Black-led boycott of Target seems to be working, even in L.A. neighborhoods that once yearned for big-box stores.
In Gaza, western colonialism has been unmasked
Through Israel and the ideology of Zionism, western elites reinvented their ugly, racist system of control and sold it as a ‘moral’ cause. Now the game is up.
It would be fine to help make Mexico a happy place: The Thirty-Seventh Newsletter (2025)
With the promise of the Mexican revolution and the sweeping reforms of cardenismo long erased by decades of neoliberalism and dependency, can Morena’s Fourth Transformation restore dignity and sovereignty to the country?
CBS drifts further toward Right-wing state television
According to AP, CBS said it had edited the interview, which ran 16 minutes and 40 seconds in its original form, for length, and posted the full interview on its website and YouTube.
Israel bombed Qatar to assassinate Hamas’s lead ceasefire negotiators
Amid ongoing ceasefire talks, Israel attempted to assassinate the Hamas negotiating team in an airstrike on the Doha office of its lead negotiator, senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya. Hamas officials say the negotiating team survived the attack.
The Kurdish disarmament that backfired on Turkiye
Ankara's quiet agreement with the PKK was never going to hold–not with Israeli-backed Kurdish projects intensifying across Syria and Iraq.
Unions call for Kosovo-style intervention to ‘stop the slaughter’ in Gaza
Unison leader says international direct action needed to get aid to Palestinians and prevent more Israeli war crimes.
Trumponomics in trouble
Trump’s twin track of tariffs and deportations to restore American ‘greatness’ are in contradiction with each other, and are damaging the U.S. economy, argues John Clarke.
The French Impressionists: Caught between revolution and counter-revolution
Most of the Impressionist artists were from comfortable, if not wealthy, families. This relative privilege coloured their attitudes to contemporary events.