The Future of Palestine Solidarity in US Labor Will Come From the Rank and File
Palestine has always been a labor issue — but until recently, many top US union leaders have been on the wrong side.| Articles – Truthout
On Friday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced that Venezuela will form an international volunteer brigade to confront any US intervention or aggression. The statement was made during a meeting of…| Abolition Media
Hundreds of people rallied outside Whitehall in central London on Thursday evening after Israel massacred over 100 Palestinians in Gaza. As Israel ignores the ceasefire and continues its bombardment, the protesters demanded that Britain ends its arms sales to Israel. “I never really had faith that Israel was going to do what they said about...| Socialist Worker
Palestine has always been a labor issue — but until recently, many top US union leaders have been on the wrong side.| Articles – Truthout
Through the stories of women who lost their husbands during the genocide, we can understand real solidarity in struggle Palestinian women in Gaza continue to endure the impossible is a story from Prism, a BIPOC-led nonprofit news outlet that centers the people, places, and issues currently underreported by national media. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our work today.| Prism
My uncle was one of the Palestinian hostages Israel released in the ceasefire deal. He returned to a broken land, carrying unspeakable scars The free and the departed: When Gaza’s hostages return to a changed homeland is a story from Prism, a BIPOC-led nonprofit news outlet that centers the people, places, and issues currently underreported by national media. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our work today.| Prism
The devastating anthology reminds us that despite our overwhelming grief, we won’t be alone forever In ‘Voices of Resistance,’ Palestinian women write to us from the end of the Earth is a story from Prism, a BIPOC-led nonprofit news outlet that centers the people, places, and issues currently underreported by national media. Please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our work today.| Prism
Organizing by Native Hawaiians and local residents against the government’s operations has only grown since 2021, when a military-owned bunker spilled jet fuel into an aquifer| Prism
Capitalism and war have always been profoundly connected. Max Weber noted the important role that financing the wars of European states played in the development of early modern capitalism.1 The bond remains as tight as ever today. As the illusions… Continue Reading → The post Understanding the Permanent Arms Economy: an introduction to the political economy of Michael Kidron appeared first on International Socialism.| International Socialism
We live in dangerous, disorientating times.1 The world was already a terrifying enough place before Donald Trump returned to the White House in early 2025: with Israel’s genocide in Gaza, a human meat grinder in Ukraine and sabre rattling between… Continue Reading → The post Trump’s new imperial disorder appeared first on International Socialism.| International Socialism
Stephen Harrison explores how Alexander the Great inherited and adapted Persian imperial traditions. The post Alexander the Great and Persian Kingship appeared first on Edinburgh University Press Blog.| Edinburgh University Press Blog
“And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the American eagle put its talons on any other land.” Mark Twain| K. M. Alexander
2025 Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado, a US government-funded far-right coup leader, vowed to privatize Venezuela's oil. US companies will "make a lot of money", she told Donald Trump Jr. in an interview. The post Venezuelan coup leader María Corina Machado vows to privatize oil: US corporations will ‘make a lot of money’ appeared first on Geopolitical Economy Report.| Geopolitical Economy Report
US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told generals to commit war crimes, ignore international law. Trump ordered military to use cities as "training grounds" to fight "enemy within"| Geopolitical Economy Report
Number 106 In this issue: 1. The Occupation by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) A lot of very clever people – economists, historians, sociologists and so on – spend their lives devising very clever theories about why our society is the way it is today. But none of their analysis will ever get … Continue reading The Acorn – 106| winter oak
Palestinian journalists around the world say the Israeli military's targeting of journalists in Gaza—and Western media’s silence—has led them to think differently about their colleagues and their roles within the industry| Prism
The media has reported on drones and fighter jets invading the territory of NATO allies in the Baltic region. This has been followed by denials from the Russian side and several analyses by “…| Left wing communism
by Marie Louise Krogh This think piece is part of the forum “The Return of Political Economy in Intellectual History”| JHI Blog
Report from Newcastle upon Tyne and Hull, 27th Oct A mass of flag waving was threatened to descend upon the people of Newcastle last Saturday, as thousands upon thousands were promised to be led / …| AnarCom Network
The 2025 conference of the International Initiative for thePromotion of Political Economy (IIPPE) just took place in Ankara, Turkey. The IIPPE was founded in 2006 with the aim of “devel…| Michael Roberts Blog
The Gaza Catastrophe: The Genocide in World-Historical Perspective by Gilbert Achcar (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2025) Gilbert Achcar is a prolific and perceptive socialist intellectual of Lebanese origins whose writings over the last two decades and more have illuminated the most| New Politics
A doctor described how health and environmental conditions are increasing the incidence of rare illnesses like Guillain-Barré syndrome| Prism
This book is a critical text to understanding the problem of why revolution has not yet been successful in a developed imperialist country.| The Red Clarion
Bombardment, famine, and loss defined life after a ceasefire. Survivors find that bread, family, and memories are the only things left to cling to| Prism
Gazans face renewed trauma as they choose between staying in their homes under threat or heading to crowded tent cities| Prism
The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO’s) 2025 summit in Tianjin produced a series of outcomes that, although modest in appearance, are strategically significant. The most prominent developments were the agreement in principle to establish an SCO Development Bank, seeded with approximately ¥2 billion in grants and a further ¥10–14 billion in concessional loans from China. The summit […]| Developing Economics
Why do so many people who claim to “see the whole system” remain blind to power? This question struck me while listening to a recent episode of Planet Critical. The guest was Joseph Tainter, best k…| Developing Economics
More than 260 people—nearly half of them children—have recently died of severe hunger in Gaza as more die each day amid famine| Prism
Israel’s starvation of Gaza builds on lessons learned throughout history: Keep people hungry and they’ll demand bread, not freedom| Prism
For those of us outside of Gaza, we are witnessing the U.S.-backed, Israeli-imposed mass starvation and famine of Palestinians in Gaza. Prism has| Prism
In June, 1,200 scholars and activists from around the world gathered in Norway for a historic convergence of two movements: degrowth and ecological economics. During the closing plenary session, I listened to three speakers, two of whom—Kate Raworth and Max Ajl—represented radically different approaches to our current crises. Though Raworth and Ajl engaged in respectful […]| Developing Economics
21 July 2025 | PDF: https://issforum.org/to/jrt16-49 | Website: rjissf.org | X: @HDiplo Editor: Diane Labrosse Commissioning Editor: John Krige Production Editor: Christopher Ball Pre-Production Copy…| H-Diplo|RJISSF
Donald Trump withdrawing US from UN bodies, tearing up climate change treaties, attacking multilateral orgs, like Presidents Bush, Obama, Reagan. Imperialism is bipartisan in Washington.| Geopolitical Economy Report
US empire invaded Nicaragua, imposed colonial military occupation, propped up puppet dictatorship, waged war, coups. Sandinistas defend sovereignty.| Geopolitical Economy Report
As an oppressive heat settled over Gaza, Israel told people to stay away from the Mediterranean Sea, stealing the last place for refuge| Prism
War on Iran is part of US empire plan for unipolar dominance in financial system, argues economist Michael Hudson. USA wants to save dollar hegemony and the petrodollar, disrupt BRICS and Eurasian integration with China and Russia.| Geopolitical Economy Report
As Israel’s airstrikes and blockades strip Palestinians in Gaza of every means of life, they still cling to hope for a better tomorrow| Prism
Ironically, in the face of capitalism’s accelerating drive towards its global war of destruction in the ‘national interests’, the flags of ‘other patriotisms’ are coming back to hide the existential struggle of our class and humanity behind the claims of those nationalists who want the ‘states in exile’ like a United Ireland or Palestine to… Continue reading Glastonbury and the Warfare State – Know thine enemy→| AnarCom Network
See a full list, sorted by subject, at New items include From Slave Plantations to the Vatican, Society Exists, and Immigrants Strain It, Wars in Ukraine and Canaan encouraged by the USA, US Hegemo…| Gwydion Madawc Williams
The Israeli surprise assault on Iran of June 13, prepared long in advance and exerted in tandem with its US American master, opens up the Pandora’s Box of a regional imperialist conflagration with global implications and may therefor pose urgent questions to internationalists. First and foremost, this new belligerent escalation confronts internationalist minorities with their responsibilities. In the following, we therefor reproduce the first two proletarian internationalist statements th...| An internationalist Articles Selection & Review
A question that needs to be posed is whether the Trump administration has had itself been lured into supporting a regional war of destruction initiated by Israel (in spite of and thwarting its nego…| An internationalist Articles Selection & Review
The Middle East is a melting pot of imperialist tensions. Global rivalries have combined with regional power struggles to produce ongoing instability.| Socialist Worker
By Ablokeimet The genocide in Gaza has been paused by the current ceasefire. Phase 1, which provided for a cessation of military action| Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group
Western governments are not going to give up supporting Israel until their hands are forced, while Israel will continue its genocide in Gaza and its war in Lebanon as long it has the weapons with which to do it.| Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group
Workers are divided, conquered and controlled as a class, both in Australia and globally, by the racial and ethnic divisions perpetuated by capitalism. This results in horrifically disproportionate living and working conditions for non-white workers, but it also results in worse conditions for all workers. Only the collective power of working class organisation can challenge and dismantle the structures of “white power” which enforce the domination of all, at the primary expense of racial...| Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group
[:en]Within the space of a few weeks, sensational announcements for rearming Europe have multiplied and fine proclamations in favour of peace and international law were made. Behind the scenes, however, the picture is less glorious: between…| rosalux.eu
For a change from reading Iain McGilchrist’s book The Matter With Things, which I am only doing very slowly, I have joined the Hannah Arendt Center’s Virtual Reading group, which is based in New Yo…| Jenny Connected
” (…) it is important to underline also on this occasion how the new political and economic line traced by Trump is not the result of a rash move, even if the character might make you t…| An internationalist Articles Selection & Review
Hereafter we have collected first statements by a number of groups of the communist Left apropos of the “shock and awe” policies enacted by the Trump administration since its inaugurati…| An internationalist Articles Selection & Review
We publish a first article that treats the stakes of the worldwide imperialist rivalries and confrontations, following the re-inauguration of D.J. Trump as president of the USA: “World Domina…| An internationalist Articles Selection & Review
At inauguration, US President Donald Trump promised to "expand our territory", invoked colonialist "Manifest Destiny", vowed to take over Panama Canal. He hinted at military force to colonize Greenland| Geopolitical Economy Report
(Written before the fall of the Assad regime, updated version of December 8) “The civil war has restarted in an already devastated Syria. The perpetrators of this renewed war against Assad co…| An internationalist Articles Selection & Review
"How can we avoid thinking that this nation is a danger to the survival of humanity?" Read Franco "Bifo" Berardi's "The American Unconscious and the Disintegration of the Western World" on the CI blog. … Continue reading →| In the Moment
At the French language web blog GRAND LARGE CRITIQUES a commentary has appeared on the article Gaza: ‘The Horror and its Lies’ whose translation we’re pleased to take up here, fol…| An internationalist Articles Selection & Review
An interview with Estela Aranha, who forced Michael Shellenberger to apologize after exposing his manipulation of data to build a false narrative about “totalitarian” Brazil By Brian Mier On April 3, Michael Shellenberger tweeted a series of excerpts from emails by X executives dubbed, “Twitter Files Brazil”, which alleged to expose crimes by Brazilian Supreme […] The post Brazilian lawyer exposes deceit at heart of “Twitter Files” appeared first on BRASILWIRE.| BRASILWIRE
Internationalist Perspective has published its evaluation of three initiatives against capitalism and its wars that have taken place in the course of this year, and in which it has engaged itself very closely: the (notorious) “action week and congress” at Prague in May; the second internationalist Conference at Arezzo in June and the ‘Beach Communist’ summer-camp at Poznan in July. In the section ‘International Meetings & Conferences’ we adopt their informative balance sheet, toge...| An internationalist Articles Selection & Review
"Despite the incessant noise and fury of a deliberately murderous war from Gaza and Israel to Lebanon, which can soon be expected from Yemen to Iran as well; despite the noise and fury of an interminable war between Russia and Ukraine, which becomes increasingly globalized, (1) a comparably peaceful silence seems to reign on the side of the Pacific Ocean, so wrongly named, which is disputed in a fierce and interminable struggle between China and the USA. However, both the USA and its allies ...| An internationalist Articles Selection & Review
These notes, pleading for an historical approach to the question of war in a proletarian sense, have been written for a preparatory meeting of the ‘Beach Communists Summer Camp’ in July 2024 at Poznan. Whereas we have found no publicly available reports on this summer camp so far, we find the notes by the UK-based ‘Friends of working class struggle’ nevertheless stimulating . They are followed by an evaluative report of a political confrontation with pro-Ukrainian “solidarity collec...| An internationalist Articles Selection & Review
“In war, truth is the first casualty”, wrote Aeschylus over 2,500 years ago. The Gaza war, a military event that will go down as one of the most despicable in history, has not belied this merciless dictum. Three gross lies, three enormous “casualties of truth” mark its course. The first, the Hamas attack, was presented as a “surprise”. The second lie concerns nothing less than the objective proclaimed by the most powerful combatant: the extermination of Hamas. The third, but by no...| An internationalist Articles Selection & Review
In June 2024 the second international conference of a number of groups and elements from the internationalist Communist Left has been held at Arezzo (Italy). Initiated by Internationalist Perspective and Controverses in 2023, this sequel has gathered participants from six European countries for contradictory discussions on the following topics: 1. The proletariat and the balance of forces between the classes; 2. The action days and meetings at Prague 'against war' (end of May 2024) and the in...| An internationalist Articles Selection & Review
Below we publish the ’Internationalist Statement on Capitalism and War’ adopted at the second international meeting of groups and elements of the Communist Left held in June 2024 in Arezzo (Italy). More information on this conference, which brought together comrades from the USA, France, England, Italy, Sweden and Holland, will appear soon, both on this website and on those of other participants and/or supporters (cf. Internationalist Perspective, Battaglia Comunista, Groupe Révolutionna...| An internationalist Articles Selection & Review
Karl Baldacchino: Your book Disertate (2023), forthcoming in English as Quit Everything: Interpreting Depression (2024), treats the subject of desertion or quitting, which according to you is congr…| In the Moment
Having finished Clive James’s Cultural Amnesia, which we were talking about recently, I found an early response from Jay Spencer Green in the now defunct Irish Left Review (visible through th…| Death is a Whale
When we discuss the climate crisis in economics, we are often confronted with a debate resting on technical solutions, emissions paths, and energy use: a certain amount of time to go from coal to t…| Developing Economics
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I’ve just updated the listing of all my blogs over the years. Sorted on a single web page. The following are recent updates: Fantasy and Science Fiction: The shifting timelines of the SF nove…| Gwydion Madawc Williams
Words won't stop the US’s support for Israel and its war| Socialist Worker
The much-hyped US pressure on Israel has produced precisely zero change in Israel’s starvation regime in Gaza.| Socialist Worker
By Ivan Gonzalez In 1963, the CIA financed campaigns against three rectors of three universities across the Mexican states of Michoacan, Puebla, and Monterrey. As well as mobilizing right wing student-teacher groups and anti-communist propaganda institutes, also financed by the CIA, under secret project “LICOAX” and “LIHUFF” to carry out strikes, physical confrontations, gather intelligence,...| ANTICONQUISTA
By Miguel Garcia On Monday, December 6, 2021, the United States government announced they would not be sending government officials to the upcoming 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics in February 2022. The diplomatic boycott is the latest move by Washington and the Biden administration in their all-out-blitz smear campaign against the People’s Republic of China. White...| ANTICONQUISTA
Since the beginning of this month, Puerto Ricans have been fighting against the privatization of their energy grid by LUMA Energy. Images and videos of Borikéns the streets of San Juan demanding an…| ANTICONQUISTA
"The Afghan War, which inaugurated a wave of western attacks in Asia and North Africa 20 years ago, will prove in its last act the futility and destruction of 'humanitarian intervention'."| Source
This Friday, August 16th, George Katsiaficas author of The Subversion of Politics and The Imagination of the New Left, is coming to Seattle to read from the second volume of his work Asia’s U…| Black Orchid Collective
The “Hobson-Lenin Thesis”: Inequality, Imperialism, and the First World War In a small section in his new book, Branko Milanovic argues that the First World War was ultimately caused by…| pseudoerasmus
The story of Korean adoption to the United States therefore involves more than the charity and good-heartedness of American prospective parents, but was borne of the interests of a client state and an imperial power.| Plan A Mag
Obama: "The United States of America is prepared to use all elements of our power, including military force, to secure our core interests in the region. We will confront external aggression against our allies and partners, as we did in the Gulf War. We will ensure the free flow of energy from the region to the world. Although America is steadily reducing our own dependence on imported oil, the world still depends on the region’s energy supply, and a severe disruption could destabilize the e...| Andreas Veithen's blog
