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'It is for us to avoid organisational sectarianism and build our organisation, not in competition with, but for the movement.'

The Vanguard in Retreat, Part Two

The Department of Justice had evidence that three major egg producers colluded to raise egg prices, driving “eggflation” while padding their profits. Like a long list of corporate price gougers before them, they are getting off with a slap on the wrist.

Nothing is more important for unions right now than organizing Amazon. Organizers can learn from the Fight for 15’s success at building pressure through a broad public campaign — and its failure to build a real organization of, by, and for workers.

Socialist politics is a class politics. A clear conception of class is essential for our political strategy.

A new New York City initiative, led by Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Office of Mass Engagement, will send volunteer organizers into neglected buildings to help tenants organize, testing the role government can play in building collective working-class power.

Twenty-five years ago, 300,000 people marched in Genoa against the G8 summit. The Italian state responded with tear gas, rubber bullets, and improvised torture chambers, but history has vindicated the critique of capitalist globalization by the protesters.

A new luxury club soon to open at Jacob Riis Park, the “People’s Beach,” is set to significantly erode the democratic spirit of a storied slice of the New York City waterfront.

Britain’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, says he can connect with the northern working-class voters who were once Labour’s base. Yet after decades of deindustrialization, it’s less clear that the party can rebuild its roots outside the main cities.

Is it a good idea to destroy the rising socialist current within the Democratic Party, as many centrist pundits are now counseling? Just ask the Labour Party, which waged war on Jeremy Corbyn and the Left and is now in complete disarray.

The cohosts of F–king Cancelled say the quiet part out loud: a left that condemns internal dissent is a dead end for democracy.

Garfield Sobers, widely regarded as one of the greatest cricket players to ever live, died last week at age 89. His career embodied a golden age of the sport and the social and political ascent of Barbados’s working class.

The current freak-out by Donald Trump, J. D. Vance, Marco Rubio, Stephen Miller, and other right-wingers about democratic socialism is quite rational. In socialism, they see a formidable foe.

Last year, almost half of all “buy now, pay later” customers missed a payment. But a growing share of Americans are relying on such credit as a routine way to fund even basics like groceries.

How solar power is transforming life at Awo Akpali Primary Health Centre

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The Drift, Part Three

by Peter Kindfield

Children learn best when curiosity, relationships, and direct experience shape education. This article explores Earth-centered ecological education, an approach that encourages learning through nature, free play, observation, and cooperation rather than rigid curricula and standardized outcomes. It examines how time outdoors helps children develop ecological understanding, emotional resilience, communication skills, and a sense of responsibility toward the living world. At a time of growing ecological disruption and social uncertainty, the article argues that reconnecting education with nature offers practical lessons for nurturing thoughtful, adaptable, and compassionate individuals capable of living within the limits and relationships that sustain life.

by Geoffrey Jobson

Global public health has long been shaped by colonial priorities, argues Geoffrey Jobson, leaving deep inequalities in access to healthcare that persist today. The article examines how technical, aid-driven approaches often ignore the political and economic structures that produce poor health outcomes. Drawing on examples from colonial medicine, the Ebola outbreaks, and the COVID-19 pandemic, it contends that scarcity is frequently a political choice rather than an unavoidable reality. Jobson calls for a health justice framework that addresses the structural roots of inequality and advances the human right to healthcare through fundamental transformation of the global economy.

Donald Trump and his ally, FIFA president Gianni Infantino, have plumbed new depths with their political antics before and during the World Cup. But as David Goldblatt insists, they still couldn’t destroy the moments of collective joy it gives us.

Anglo-American commentary has lost its mind, blending “VAR-gentina” complaints with outrage over Milei’s cozy relationship with Trump and Netanyahu. Don’t buy the moralizing: Argentina is still worth rooting for.