The following remarks by Paul Le Blanc were delivered at the May 31 evening session of the four-day Marx is' Muss Kongress 2025 that was held in Berlin and organized by marx21, a left-wing current in Die Linke (the Left Party), which drew 1200 activists. These remarks...
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Official: U.S.-Israeli deception gave Iran false security ahead of attack
An Israeli official said Tel Aviv received a “clear green light” for the attack from Washington.
Federal court blocks portions of Trump’s anti-trans executive orders
District Judge Jon. S. Tigar of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco issued an order on June 9 granting a preliminary injunction against several provisions of three of President Trump’s executive orders adversely affecting...
The people want peace and progress, not war and waste: The Twenty-Fourth Newsletter (2025)
As NATO’s secretary general urges member nations to ‘shift to a wartime mindset’, now more than ever it is clear that this aggressive alliance poses a threat to peace on a global scale.
‘Christopher Hill: Life and Legacy of a Radical Historian’
Christopher Hill looms large in the landscape of British Marxist historiography, perhaps the indispensable historian of the English Revolution for generations on the Left.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro denounces U.S.-backed coup plot and urges popular consultation for social justice
President Gustavo Petro exposes a U.S.-supported far-right coup attempt against his progressive government and calls for a popular consultation on labor and social reforms as essential steps toward peace and justice in Colombia.
Naughties in Nottingham
CAL MCBRIDE recommends that you follow a coming-of-age trans story through harrowing lows to a point of optimistic triumph.
Sky News smears Greta Thunberg as a Nazi to justify IDF attack
IDF troops have raided the Madleen, a sailboat that was carrying aid intended to break the Israeli siege on Gaza.
1.5 is dead: How hot will the Earth get?
It may be ‘technically possible,’ to keep global heating below 1.5 degrees, but it isn’t going to happen..
Pedagogy and Class Power: Reclaiming Freire in an Age of Reaction
In the early decades of the twenty-first century, education has become a frontline in the ideological struggle over the future of global capitalism. The coordinated assault on teachers, curriculum, and institutions of public learning is not an isolated culture war but...
Greta Thunberg: “Israel kidnapped me in international waters”
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg has said the Israeli regime kidnapped her and other pro-Palestinian activists in international waters while they were aboard the Gaza-bound Madleen aid ship.
Hegseth lays out a case for troop deployments in ‘any jurisdiction in the country’
"The standoff on the streets of Los Angeles," warned critics, "shows how truly eager Trump and his administration are to turn America's vast warmaking powers inward on the president's domestic foes."