Chávez’s “Strike at the Helm” speech has been described as the masterful route to building a participatory and protagonist democracy, the 21st-century political model that is burying what Chavez referred to as the “failed and exhausted bourgeois representative...
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Capitalism and Colonialism: How Modern Canada Was Made
An interview with historian Bryan Palmer about his trilogy of books on the continuing legacy of colonialism in Canada.
Globalization Famines
ON October 11 in New Delhi Prime Minister Narendra Modi advised Indian farmers to grow more “export-oriented crops”.
Ocean acidification threatens planetary health: Interview with Johan Rockström
We have all the evidence that the solutions are scalable, and [if we act decisively] we would become winners in terms of modernity, security, peace and health, but also in terms of equity.
‘The Alabama Solution’ takes no prisoners as incarcerated workers struggle for their humanity
Cellmates use cellphones to uncover ‘America’s deadliest prison system.’
Climate change sets workers’ feet on fire: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2025)
The effects of climate change are disproportionately felt by the working class, with billions of workers forced to toil in conditions of excessive heat.
A warning from Lebanon
In not quite one year since the ceasefire deal in Lebanon, Israel has broken the ceasefire 4,600 times. It has killed hundreds of people, including infants, demolished tens of thousands of homes and annexed five areas of Lebanon. It was supposed to withdraw completely.
Fighting the Empire
FROM ANDOR TO A NEW HOPE
The Caribbean’s Zone of Peace Under Threat: A Conversation with David Abdulah
A Trinidadian labor activist talks about his government’s submissive position to the US in the face of the imperialist buildup against Venezuela, and the correlation of forces in the region.
Ignore Marxism if you prefer barbarism
Marxism represents the ripest product of humanity’s finest intellectual traditions.
Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement organizes internationalist brigades to support Venezuela in case of U.S. invasion
Movement leader compares initiative to the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s.
Reading the Gaza Ceasefire
The ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas brokered by Donald Trump has come into effect.











