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October 3 march in Minneapolis. Photos: Randy Furst HUNDREDS OF DEMONSTRATORS, mostly union members, rallied and marched through the streets of Minneapolis on Saturday, Oct. 3. The march was a show of support for 15 political activists who were indicted earlier this year by Donald Trump’s Justice Department for their organized opposition to the ICE… Continue reading Labor Marching for the Minnesota 15

In 2021, Richie Floyd was elected to the St Petersburg City Council, becoming the first openly socialist elected official in Florida in over a century. Writing in Jacobin, Floyd explains how Bernie’s 2016 campaign launched him into organizing.

Socialists need more than a critique of capitalism. We need a concrete account of how a socialist economy could work — and make ordinary people’s lives better.

The World Inequality Lab has produced the most ambitious redistribution plan in decades. But it asks the workers of the rich world to atone for empire rather than fight capital.

Ninety years ago this Sunday, antifascist demonstrators routed Oswald Mosley and his supporters when they tried to terrorize the Jews of London’s East End. It’s an important anniversary in a year when a new far-right movement is gathering strength.

To turn the Green audience into influence, the left has to change how it works.

New York City is running out of places to dump its trash. In the latest draft of the city’s once-a-decade solid waste management plan, the sanitation department warns that the landfills receiving much of the city’s garbage are filling up fast.  More than two-thirds of the city’s municipal waste is transported to landfills hundreds of […]

Campism, press freedom, and the strategic dead end of treating the enemies of America as the friends of the left

by Alejandra Garcia Elizalde

The United States has reportedly communicated to the Uruguayan government that it must end the presence of the Cuban Medical Brigade, particularly the Cuban Ophthalmology Brigade. As of September 2026, the Cuban medical brigade has reportedly carried out more than 120,000 free procedures, primarily benefiting low-income Uruguayans.

by Thomas Palley

Dr Thomas Palley reflects on the debate over tenure following The New School’s dismissal of several tenured professors amid financial distress and institutional reorganization. He argues that the controversy should prompt a broader examination of how higher education is governed. Palley proposes replacing tenure with academic unions, strengthening faculty governance, limiting administrator pay, and requiring senior university officers to come from the faculty. He questions whether tenure adequately protects academic freedom and argues that it creates divisions between tenured and precarious academic workers. He also calls for legal remedies for individuals affected while urging discussion of the wider structure of universities.

by Carolina Alves

Empirical inquiry has its place in economics, but economists must not let the pursuit of causality displace the pursuit of explanation.

by E A S Sarma

The article by E.A.S. Sarma examines the Union environment ministry’s exemption of standalone green hydrogen and green ammonia plants from prior environmental clearance. Using the proposed 1-million-tonne green ammonia facility at Kakinada as a case study, Sarma highlights concerns over water consumption, desalination waste, pipelines, ecological impacts and the project’s proximity to the Coringa Wildlife Sanctuary. He also questions the exclusion of public consultation and the wider implications of treating such projects as environmentally benign merely because they use renewable energy. The letter argues that environmental appraisal must precede industrial operations and calls on the ministry to revisit the exemption in light of Article 48A.

by from Santiago Chile

Chile’s far-right President, José Antonio Kast, ignored the 53rd anniversary of the September 11, 1973, coup d’état, when General Augusto Pinochet (1915–2006) overthrew the government of Salvador Allende (1970–1973).

by Raúl Antonio Capote

As detentions of Cubans in the United States increase, the voices most critical of Havana remain silent; no politician—and almost none of the so-called influencers—is speaking out to denounce the abuse. Most Cubans detained and deported to third countries did not cross the border illegally; their entry was, at the time, legal and authorized by U.S. authorities.

by La Jornada editorial

The U.S. Southern Command reported the sinking of the fishing vessel Por siempre don Carlos and the disappearance of its 25 crew members 140 nautical miles off the coast of Manta, Ecuador. With this action, the total number of vessels destroyed by U.S. troops—invited into the country by President Daniel Noboa with the alleged aim of combating drug trafficking—now stands at 10.

by Phil Pasquini

Advocates say hundreds of thousands of Haitians face removal to a country beset by killings, displacement and severe instability, while protests demand restoration of Temporary Protected Status.

by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor

Colombia’s decision to withdraw its intervention in South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice does not affect the proceedings, South Africa’s arguments or the Court’s jurisdiction, according to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor. The organisation explains that Colombia was an intervening state under Article 63 of the ICJ Statute, not the applicant, and therefore could not halt or withdraw the case itself. The article also examines Colombia’s continuing obligations under the Genocide Convention, including the duty to prevent and punish genocide. It calls on states to support international accountability efforts and uphold the independence of the Court.

by Vijay Prashad

Trump’s campaign to bring Greenland under US control is presented as a national-security project, but Greenlanders have overwhelmingly rejected joining the United States. Vijay Prashad examines the island’s strategic importance, the extensive US military presence already established there, and the historical costs borne by Greenlanders. The article places Trump’s demands within the broader framework of the Monroe Doctrine and its modern “Donroe Doctrine” formulation, linking Greenland to Washington’s wider hemispheric ambitions. It also traces Greenland’s struggle for self-government and independence, arguing that strategic interests, mineral resources and military geography cannot override the political rights and self-determination of Greenland’s people.

Ninety years after the original Nye Committee exposed the arms industry’s corruption, the Pentagon and its contractors are bigger, richer, and more unaccountable than ever.