If an Olympic high jump athlete claimed improved performance by continually lowering the bar, he would be banned for life for cheating; if a school principal claimed that the percentage of failures had fallen sharply to zero from 40 percent, and this was found to...
For those who lived through Richard Nixon’s lurch toward authoritarian rule, the period after his reelection in a landslide in November 1972 was frightening. (And it was a real landslide, with 60 percent of the vote.) Nixon soon launched a brutal “Christmas” bombing...
Donald Trump imposed a naval blockade on Venezuela and admitted he wants to take its oil and give it to U.S. corporations: “We had a lot of oil there. They threw our companies out, and we want it back”.
Peter Mertens, general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Belgium, tells Peoples Dispatch that 2026 brings opportunities for class struggle – if the left is ready to act boldly.
Councilors of the CNE who answer to the two-party system of Honduras declared Nasry Juan Asfura Zablah as president-elect for the period 2026-2030, without concluding the special scrutiny or resolving the challenges presented.
On 25 December 2025, a military court in Moscow sentenced Sergei Udaltsov, coordinator of the "Left Front" movement, to six years in prison on charges of “supporting terrorism.”
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have been on an emotional roller coaster ever since they returned to capitalism.
It was no magic wand-the authorities took several tough steps over the years to achieve this miracle.
Victor Grossman, born Stephen Wechsler in New York City in 1928, died in Berlin on Wednesday, December 17. His Berlin Bulletin appeared regularly on MR Online, and in 2019 Monthly Review Press published his memoir A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee....
The Green Party of England and Wales is attracting new members in unprecedented numbers and achieving polling percentages that would have seemed impossible a year ago. However, tensions are building behind the scenes over the party’s economic programme. On December...
The European Union is trying to eliminate sources of information that do not confirm with its official interpretation of real world events.
Two weeks after elections in Honduras, no winner has yet been declared yet. As the irregularities grow, both the Liberal Party and LIBRE have denounced electoral fraud is being committed in favor of the far-right candidate.