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?
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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.
You might be a Marxist (Part II)
As sociologists, we know that Marx’s ideas are not only still relevant today but that they resonate with the views that many of us hold. For this reason, I thought it might be useful to once again offer some examples of how Marx’s social commentary is much more...
Marriage equality on the rocks
While Justices Thomas and Alito dissented in Obergefell in 2015, the broad public support that both parties once embraced has now waned among Republicans.
Zohran Mamdani with strong lead in NYC Mayoral race
Surveys put the leftist candidate ahead of Cuomo, Sliwa and Adams.
All elements in place for a U.S. strike on Venezuela
Roger D. Harris and Joe Emersberger trace how U.S. imperialist strategy, from fake drug charges to naval deployments, sets the stage for an attack on Venezuela’s leadership.
Ghassan Kanafani’s “Guerrilla Rhetoric,” then and now
Jay Murphy reviews “Ghassan Kanafani: Selected Political Writings,” a collection of newly translated essays by the influential Palestinian philosopher, author, and activist.











