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by Tony Wood & Meizhu Lui

When Tony Wood talks about the debates of the Mexican left in the 1920s and 30s, some of the questions sound familiar. For example, when a more progressive but still capitalist government is in power, as in Mexico after its 1910 revolution, some in the broad left condemned it, others supported it as a positive step. This debate is occurring again today. Is the Morena party a revolutionary force, a “4th transformation”? Or is it still fundamentally a capitalist party like the old PRI, just throwing the poor a bigger bone?

by Vidyarthy Chatterjee

Raoul Peck’s 'Lumumba' offers a restrained and politically significant remembrance of Patrice Lumumba, the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Vidyarthy Chatterjee examines Lumumba’s assassination in the context of the struggle over Congo’s mineral wealth, sovereignty and political future. The article discusses the role of Western powers, Belgian colonial interests and Congolese political elites in the events that led to Lumumba’s death. It also considers how Peck’s film revisited this history during the Black Lives Matter movement, bringing renewed attention to colonial violence and the continuing economic and political pressures faced by former African colonies.

by The Coalition for the Elimination of Imperialism in Africa

The debate over constitutional reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo is unfolding amid a deeper security, economic and social crisis. This article examines the proposed changes through a class-based and anti-imperialist perspective, arguing that institutional reform cannot be separated from the material conditions facing Congolese workers and communities. It traces the political evolution from the 2006 Constitution and Félix Tshisekedi’s rise to power to the current referendum process, while examining concerns over a possible third presidential term. The article also considers the country’s vast mineral wealth, foreign economic interests, poverty and weak public services, and argues that lasting democratic transformation requires greater popular control over resources and institutions.

by Thomas Klikauer

Germany’s statutory minimum wage was introduced only in 2015, but legal protections have not prevented widespread wage theft. The article examines how employers evade minimum-wage obligations through unpaid overtime, off-the-clock work, inaccurate time records, illegal deductions, worker misclassification and other practices. Drawing on German trade union estimates, it reports that workers may have lost up to €64 billion between 2015 and 2024, with part-time workers, contract workers, women and workers in eastern Germany particularly affected. The article also examines weak enforcement, staffing shortages in inspection agencies, and the need for stronger collective bargaining, inspections, sanctions and whistleblower protections.

by Anirban Mukherjee

India’s constitutional democracy recognizes Adivasi or tribal communities as distinct social formations having special rights over land and forests. Ironically, some of the country’s richest tribal landscapes continue to be viewed as repositories of mineral wealth. Whenever coal, bauxite, iron ore, or other natural resources are discovered beneath forests inhabited by Scheduled Tribes, the language of development takes precedence over the language of constitutional justice.

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Under Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s national cinema was gutted, censored, and left for dead. Then Lula returned — and so did the movies.

Several outside actors have stoked the flames of war in Sudan, but none has had as great an impact as the United Arab Emirates. The evidence of its destructive role is overwhelming, but the Gulf kingdom’s Western allies have turned a blind eye to it.

The US does not suffer from a tyrannical Supreme Court so much as an ineffective Congress that, by constitutional design, delays and obstructs rather than acts on the most pressing issues facing Americans.

With his down-to-earth focus on cost-of-living issues, Milan mayoral candidate Lorenzo Pacini is seeking to reconnect with Italian traditions of city-hall socialism.

This investigation was reported in a collaboration between Inside Climate News and Columbia Journalism Investigations. MCDERMITT CALDERA, Ore.—On a cold and overcast spring morning, Katie Fite stood in one of the country’s last sage-grouse strongholds, contemplating the wooden stakes in the ground that she fears warn of its destruction. Every spring, males of the chunky […]

On a clean summer swell, the wave at Malibu’s Surfrider Beach arrives from the south, wraps around a cobblestone point and unspools toward the pier in a long, shimmering wave that can carry a surfer for hundreds of feet. It breaks slowly, forgivingly, over rounded stones that were delivered by Malibu Creek across millennia. The […]

Like many people who are invested in environmental and social justice movement spaces right now, we are feeling the effects of a dynamic landscape marked simultaneously by meaningful wins and discouraging setbacks. Luckily at Stand.earth, our tried-and-true formula applies equally well to either condition. When confronted with a new crisis or opportunity, our team carefully […]

Sonoma County, California: The Sonoma County Democratic Socialists of America calls upon Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to run for President of the United States in 2028. We’ve voted overwhelmingly to back her run, grow DSA into a force to be reckoned with, and advance democratic socialism nationwide—and we call upon DSA chapters across the country to do […]

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Is Trump letting the Saudis enrich uranium or is he just enriching himself?

Nearly 2,000 workers at Blizzard, a Microsoft-owned video game studio that makes popular games like Diablo, won their first union contracts earlier this month. Their protections include recall rights and guaranteed severance packages for laid-off workers.

A crop of recent polls shows that socialism’s appeal is surprisingly broad. They also reflect a transformed US political landscape that is ripe for a socialist politician to capitalize on — if they’re willing to step up.

The militias wreaking havoc in Sudan also profit from plunder and can pay their recruits a wage much higher than any civilian job available to them. This simple calculation is one of the most important factors behind the country’s horrifying war.

This letter from our Secretary Christopher Ford was published in the Morning Star (newspaper of the Communist Party of Britain, but unfortunately distributed relatively widely in the UK trade union movement) on 21 September. From what we can see they have not published it online. The article by Lindsey German of the “Stop the War … Continue reading “Resist invasion or accept occupation”: reply to Lindsey German of ‘Stop the War’

The real choice is not between globalization and deglobalization, free trade and tariff walls, but between empowering capital and empowering workers.