The US Is Raising Tensions With North Korea

North Korea is taking an increasingly hostile posture toward the US. It’s the predictable result of the United States’ aggressive maneuvering in the region in its great power rivalry with China.

We Should Be Sober About the Risk of Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine

The risk of nuclear weapon use in Ukraine is low but rising. It’s deeply concerning. But we should also resist the kind of alarmism that is counterproductive to both principled internationalism and winning a world free of nuclear weapons.

Anti-Imperialists Today Must Push for Full-Scale Nuclear Disarmament

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has revealed the new reality of great-power conflict, underwritten by nuclear weapons. Our task is to reject aligning with one of the great powers and to instead push for across-the-board nuclear disarmament.

What South Korea’s Candlelight Revolution Tells Us About Defeating a Right-Wing Autocrat

South Korea’s 2016–17 Candlelight Revolution shows that to defend democratic rights, you have to be ready to step outside the bounds of liberal proceduralism. We should take the same lesson in the US: the best way to ensure that Donald Trump will respect the results of the November election is to mobilize in the streets and demand it. 

There’s No Such Thing as the “National Interest”

According to establishment pundits and politicians, countries have “national interests” they carry out in the international arena. But “national interests” is just another phrase for ruling-class interests. The old socialist argument is true: workers of all countries have more in common with each other than their respective countries’ ruling elites.

Our Revolution Must Dismantle the National Security State

We can’t avoid confronting the Pentagon and the massive (and lucrative) security state it oversees.

The Miseducation of Samantha Power

Samantha Power has staked her career on fighting for human rights. But her liberal interventionism undermines those very aims by propping up the world’s most powerful military.

The Corporate Media Never Talks About US Imperialism

The New York Times and other establishment outlets like to paint North Korea as an irrational actor hell-bent on destroying the United States. But you can’t understand North Korea’s nuclear program without talking about US militarism.

Small or Nothing

Donald Trump’s ignorance and hubris are undermining any possibility of a denuclearization deal with North Korea.

How the West Was Won

The Netflix series Wild Wild Country has been widely praised — and rightly so. It’s an incisive meditation on everything from the colonization of the Americas to present-day gentrification.

Moon’s Delicate Dance

Trump might get all the attention, but South Korean president Moon Jae-in is the real key to securing peace on the peninsula.

Good News at Last

Don’t credit Trump, but a new Korean War seems less likely today than it has in years.

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

It’s not just Trump — nuclear weapons are tools of genocidal power, no matter who controls them.

Peace Is Still Possible

The United States cares more about keeping South Korea under its thumb than securing peace with North Korea.

Road to Ruin

The risk of war with North Korea remains real. And Trump and Abe are pushing us further in that calamitous direction.

Averting Annihilation

To prevent nuclear catastrophe, we must stand in solidarity with ordinary people across the Korean peninsula.

Casualties of the Crisis

The dozens who perished in an Oakland warehouse fire were victims of the affordable housing crisis.

Communists for Austerity

In criticizing capitalism for mass consumption instead of exploitation, The Americans uses Soviet characters to valorize austerity.

The Numbers Racket

Rick Scott and Obama’s figures may sound impressive, but “job creation” does not equal recovery.

Austerity in Heaven’s Corridor