How many must die before Gaza's famine is called a crime?
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
This text is one of the GIC’s three preliminary studies of Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution (1935). These studies are important because they clarify the political framework of the Fundamental Principles more than the 1930 edition of the...| Left wing communism
Number 105 In this issue: 1. Impact, Zimpact! by Paul Cudenec (who reads the article here) For several years now I have been warning about the threat to our freedom from “impact investment”. I have described this as “the new weapon of exploitation being launched against 99.9% of humankind by the tiny gang of ultra-rich … Continue reading The Acorn – 105| winter oak
The post The UAE’s Subimperialism in Sudan appeared first on Spectre Journal.| Spectre Journal
Though the new antibiotic “ice cream” is dangerous, few adults can deny children this small indulgence that makes life during a genocide feel worth living In Gaza, children eat frozen antibiotic syrups for the lie of something sweet 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
As colleges across the U.S. prepare to welcome students back to campus, Israel continues to destroy Gaza’s universities and slaughter students and professors For a third year in a row, no new school year for Gaza’s college students 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
More than 13,000 people are trapped beneath rubble, buried in mass graves, or held in undisclosed detention centers, according to a recent report ‘We never stopped looking’: Gazans search for answers months after their loved ones disappeared 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
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
An enrolled member of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, well-known historian Nick Estes co-hosts The Red Nation podcast. He is the author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance (Verso, 2019), a book that situates the struggle against the pipeline in the... The post Empire, Colonialism and Solidarity: A Conversation with Nick Estes appeared first on Venezuelanalysis.| Venezuelanalysis
Now I’m just back from a visit, my first in several years, seeing and talking with old friends of various views, left, right, and center. The post Impressions of Mexico—Some Delightful, Some Disturbing appeared first on New Politics.| New Politics
Has the cross absolved us?There is, after all, no condemnation.Has giving zakat lifted us beyond reproach?Is there no Salt Satyagraha to raise the conscience of the world?In our silence,In our adulterated prayers,In turning a blind eye.In our pretense of neutrality to safeguard “what’s mine”We have green lit abominationsConsoling our conscienceWith hymns and prayersSaying, Thy will […]| Helping You To Succeed
Last weekend the 18th Congress of the World Association of Political Economy (WAPE) took place in Istanbul, Turkey.. WAPE is a Chinese-run academic economics organisation, linking up with Marxist economists globally. “Even though that might seem like bias, the WAPE forums and journals still provide an important outlet to discuss all the developments in the world capitalist economy fromContinue reading "WAPE 2025: geopolitics, economic models and multi-polarity"| Michael Roberts Blog
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
Trump and his imperialist collaborators understand the reformist nature of South Afrika’s government, but still targets them because of its rejection of outright western colonial rule.| The Red Clarion
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
Prism chats with Sim Kern and Hannah Moushabeck, co-owner of Interlink Publishing, the only Palestinian-owned press in the U.S.| Prism
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
At least 41 people were killed on June 30 in Israel’s attack on Al-Baqa Cafe, a beloved seaside cafe in Gaza| Prism
As an oppressive heat settled over Gaza, Israel told people to stay away from the Mediterranean Sea, stealing the last place for refuge| Prism
We should not expect a country that’s proud about its campaigns of terror against children to be repentant now| 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
We should not expect a country that’s proud about its campaigns of terror against children to be repentant now| Prism
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
Compassion fatigue is being replaced by stress and trauma as people can no longer bear to focus on so much misery and potential fear. In the wars around us there is a sense that we are not just wit…| AnarCom Network
There are few areas of the global economy where fever dreams of crisis, competition and war are so tightly interwoven as they are in the production of what is misleadingly called Artificial Intelligence (AI). The phalanx of smirking tech bros… Continue Reading → The post AI and the arms race appeared first on International Socialism.| International Socialism
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
Growing up in Venezuela and now living in the United States, I’ve always felt caught between two independence days: July 4th and July 5th. Two celebrations. Two flags. Two very different ideas of what it means to be free. In the U.S., the Fourth of July comes with fireworks, parades, and an almost unquestioned belief| Dissident Voice | a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social j...
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
This piece appears in print in Salvage 14: Shrouded in Darkness. Issue 14 is available to buy individually here. Our poetry, fiction and art remains exclusive to the print edition, and our subscribers have exclusive access to some online content, including all audio content. New subscriptions can be taken out here, and start with the […] The post Policing the Wastelands appeared first on Salvage.| Salvage
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 Güney Işıkara and Patrick Mokre The recent paper by Gastón Nievas and Thomas Piketty, “Unequal Exchange and North-South Relations” has gained substantial praise as well as criticism in a sh…| Developing Economics
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
Something immense but not sufficiently recognised has taken place in the last few days. The Gaza solidarity movement has outlived the British Government’s policy of defence for Israel’s assault on Gaza. Just before this volte-face, the Gaza solidarity movement achieved its second largest demonstrati| Conter
[: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
Many see the United States and Iran as sworn enemies, but few are aware about the deep history of the relationship between the two countries. A focal point of this shared history can be seen through Christian missionaries present in Tehran during the first half of the 20th century.| The Cairo Review of Global Affairs
By DCC Team One of the most enduring stories about the Spanish conquest of Mexico is that the Indigenous people, particularly the Mexica (often called the "Aztecs"), believed Hernán Cortés and his fellow conquistadors were gods. Hernán Cortés (1485–1547) was a Spanish conquistador best known for leading the expedition that resulted in the fall of| DECOLONIAL CENTRE - A PROJECT BY THE PLUTO EDUCATIONAL TRUST
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
Abstract An early analysis of the imperialist implications of the surge of global commodity prices was conducted in 2014 by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler. However, their analysis did not consider how the US monetary and fiscal expansionist policies have contributed to the rise of global commodity prices. This article fills this gap. Arguably, under […] The post Kim, ‘Monetary Expansionism, Global Commodity Prices, and Global Inequality’ appeared first on Capital As Power.| Capital As Power
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
By DCC Team Surplus populations are people capitalism no longer needs for work or consumption. They aren’t an accident but a built-in feature of the system, growing “in the direct ratio of its own energy and extent” (Marx 1976:782). These populations embody capitalism’s contradictions, existing as both the byproducts of economic growth and the human […] The post Surplus Populations first appeared on DECOLONIAL CENTRE. The post Surplus Populations appeared first on DECOLONIAL CENTRE.| DECOLONIAL CENTRE
By DCC Team The security-industrial complex refers to the network of relationships between governments, private corporations, and security agencies that profit from and sustain “security”. Security here means systems of surveillance, border control, and detention. This is related to the rise in global migration. It is a form of racist state control and the security-industrial […] The post Security Industrial Complex first appeared on DECOLONIAL CENTRE. The post Security Industrial Com...| DECOLONIAL CENTRE
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
Just added to my radio archive (click on date for link): February 6, 2025 Kristin Du Mez, author of Jesus and John Wayne, on Christian nationalism • Jennifer Middlestadt, author of this article, on…| LBO News from Doug Henwood
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
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 […]| BRASILWIRE
“Lula’s imprisonment one of the worst mistakes in Brazil’s legal history,” wrote Justice Dias Toffoli in ruling which lowers the final curtain on US-orchestrated Car Wash/Lava Jato Investigation, which helped remove President Dilma Rousseff, jailed her likely successor Lula, and elected neofascist Jair Bolsonaro.| BRASILWIRE
Conflict has sharpened this summer between China and the US-backed regime in the Philippines over their conflicting claims in the South China Sea.| Revolutionary Communists of America
Tim Kirby, ideological director at the Center, and Joaquin Flores, director at the Center, debate what the ins and outs of ‘Progressive Imperialism’. Kirby poses the question to Flores “How are pr…| syncreticstudies.com
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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This essay is reproduced here as it appeared in the print edition of the original Science for the People magazine. These web-formatted archives are preserved complete with typographical errors and available for reference and educational and activist use. Scanned PDFs of the back issues can be browsed by headline at the website for the 2014 SftP conference held at UMass-Amherst. For more information or to support the project, email sftp.publishing@gmail.com| Science for the People Archives
On October 7th, 2023, a force of fighters from the Palestinian Resistance Factions conducted a large-scale offensive operation against the zionist entity, unprecedented in size and scope. In response, the israeli Occupation Force launched a full scale onslaught on the people of Gaza, a genocide that has taken the lives of well over 40,000 people in less than 9 months. Indiscriminate bombing and invasion of the most densely populated city on Earth by the IOF has been live-streamed nonstop sinc...| The Red Clarion
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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
Andrew Lee examines the contradiction & utility of transracial adoption in American families within the context of it's white dominant culture.| Plan A Mag
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
