Politics

Maybe a General Strike Isn’t So Impossible Now

By Alex Han Trump’s attacks on working people—threats to send troops into major U.S. cities, ripping collective bargaining rights from a million federal workers, an immigration enforcement terror campaign that borders on unconstitutional—have been so…


Kerala Has Abolished Extreme Poverty

By Vijay Prashad On 1 November 2025, the south-western Indian state of Kerala—home to 34 million people—was declared free from extreme poverty by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Kerala is one of the few places in…


US Interference Invalidates Honduran Election

By John Perry While Washington’s aversion to foreign interference in its domestic elections verges on paranoia, the gross hypocrisy which runs through its foreign policy leaves it free of any compunction when meddling in other…


No Room for Fear

Broad antifascist front confronts far-right violence in Croatia By Ana Vračar Tens of thousands of people in four Croatian cities took to the streets on Sunday, November 30, responding to a call from the initiative…


The EU’s New Censorship Machine

By Thomas Fazi The EU loves talking about freedom. Just look at one of its recent press releases, launching something called the Euro­pean Democracy Shield, which promises to protect everything from “free people” to “free…




Threatening Venezuela

All elements in place for a US decapitation strike By Joe Emersberger and Roger D. Harris President Donald Trump euphorically concluded his White House press conference on September 2 with breaking news: the US military…


The Darien Gap ‘Closure’

Border Theater in the Jungle Commentary by Belén Fernández In January, just before Donald Trump resumed command of the United States on a bevy of sociopathic promises, incoming US border czar Tom Homan announced that…


Morena’s Fourth Transformation

Can Mexico’s dignity and sovereignty be restored? By Vijay Prashad When I was in graduate school, I audited a class taught by Friedrich Katz (1927–2010), one of the great historians of Mexico of his generation….