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Recurring layoffs reveal an industry organized around extracting value while workers bear the cost of crises. In Montreal, game workers are building solidarity and organizing for collective power.

Economist Anwar Shaikh, who died this month, spent half a century turning Marx’s categories into hard numbers. His first teaching assistant and longtime collaborator remembers the man and the work.

The Left is often asked how it proposes to pay for programs like universal childcare, Medicare or All, and a green jobs program. Here’s how: tax wealth and capital the same way we already tax wages, and slash our bloated and destructive military budget.

Political organizer and chef Lewis Bassett’s The Full English offers a firsthand account of how English food has been shaped by industrialization, empire, and class from the vantage point of restaurants across the country.

This story is a collaboration between Inside Climate News and the San Antonio Express-News. SAN ANTONIO, Texas—In Texas, suburbs have sprung up where oil pump jacks once bobbed. At the Preserve at Medina, a subdivision of brick-and-siding starter homes in southwest San Antonio, students filed off a school bus on a hot afternoon. One child […]

This reporting was supported by a Transatlantic Media Fellowship from the Heinrich Boll Foundation. Picture a buoyant triangular steel or concrete platform roughly the dimensions of a baseball field.  Now place a wind turbine taller than the London Eye on top, connect mooring lines to the seabed and power cables to the grid, and you’ve […]

Bandiera Rossa, the Fourth Internationalist magazine in Italian, from 1991

by Joshua Frank

“The point of the book is to get people to think beyond capitalism. We need a criticism of fossil fuel capitalism and how that has dominated this problem. Replacing fossil fuel capitalism with critical mineral capitalism isn’t going to solve the problem.”

by Sabrina Fernandes and Federico Fuentes

I understand ecosocialism as a strain within Marxism and socialism that does not treat nature as just another issue we occasionally talk about and sometimes forget. Nature is central for ecosocialists — it is something we read into class, gender, race and capitalist exploitation.

A new book makes the most rigorous case yet for why so few working-class people hold office. But by treating the lack of workers in office as a law of electoral democracy, its authors underrate how much organized workers could change it.

Far-right Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella seeks the return of the disastrous Plan Colombia, this time inviting US troops for joint operations, per Pete Hegseth. The opposition says it’s a violation of Colombians’ rights.

by Vijay Prashad

Lula's defeat would affect workers and peasants throughout Brazil, but also the possibilities for regional cooperation and an independent Latin American foreign policy.

by Majid Maleki Meighani

The article examines how the revolutionary left should approach resistance by non-left forces against imperialism. It distinguishes the material anti-imperialist effects of struggles by Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis and Iran from the political and class character of those forces. It argues that defending resistance does not require endorsing the movements or states leading it. The article applies this distinction to Palestine, Iran and Venezuela, while warning against both campism and the denial of imperialism. It calls for an independent politics that opposes imperialist domination while maintaining criticism of domestic repression, exploitation and class power. For the author, resistance can weaken imperialism without itself constituting liberation.

A complacent view contrasts the freedom of the US internet with the tight regimentation of the Chinese version. In reality, the two seem to be converging around a model of state and oligarchic control over online communities and debates.

Centrist Democrats like potential 2028 presidential candidate Rahm Emanuel are presenting heightened great-power rivalry as the path to US national renewal. Socialists need to articulate an alternative to their New Cold War fantasies.

Britain’s Labour government has brought forward a bill that’s supposed to address the legacy of the Troubles in the North of Ireland. But the latest changes to the bill will shield British soldiers from any threat of being prosecuted for their crimes.

PARIS—By the time Cléo made it to Greek class, she had gone completely pale. It was a Wednesday in June during France’s second consecutive heat wave this year, and the 16-year-old was struggling to cope with the rising temperatures. She pushed through, thinking she was just tired. But the following day at her sweltering high […]

From our collaborating partner “Living on Earth,” public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by producer Aynsley O’Neill with Nathan Donley from the Center for Biological Diversity. Atrazine is the second-most widely used weed killer in the U.S. after glyphosate, which you might know as Roundup. Much like glyphosate, atrazine can disrupt hormones and has […]

Plenty of storms have hit Pensacola, Florida’s westernmost city, in the 450 years since its founding, but among the worst has been the storm over the toxic waste site nicknamed “Mount Dioxin.”  Bureaucratic mismanagement led to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency relocating about 400 households from the neighborhoods around the site beginning in the mid-1990s. […]

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