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Cuba Is Not Alone

The Trump administration is determined to finally crush Cuba, through concerted actions to cut off its fuel supply. Resisting Donald Trump’s imperialism, the Nuestra América solidarity convoy is mobilizing to provide direct aid to the Cuban people.

Donald Trump Is Staying the Course

Donald Trump’s inane self-aggrandizement made listening to his State of the Union speech an exercise in endurance. It was also a reminder of how lucky the nation is that Trump’s pathologies prevent him from more ably seizing his historical moment.

The Capitalist Interests Behind Donald Trump

Trumpism is often cast as a personalist project representing no coherent capitalist interest. But it is also the product of splits within the ruling class and a new power bloc uniting the tech-military complex, crypto-capital, and extractivists.

David Harvey on Marxism for the 21st Century

Karl Marx developed his critique of capitalism by studying England’s “satanic mills.” But, as David Harvey writes, he understood capitalism as a global system. Were he alive today, he would insist that socialists focus on Silicon Valley as much as Shenzhen.