Girls to the Rescue
Workers need independent and strong unions, not corporate-sponsored NGOs, to fight their bosses and support their families.
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The US Political System Is to Blame for This Pandemic
Donald Trump richly deserves to be condemned for his response to COVID-19. But the catastrophic failures of public policy didn’t start with Trump: this bipartisan disaster has been decades in the making.
Hurricane Empire
Puerto Rico’s devastation by Hurricane Maria was a man-made disaster, rooted in American empire.
Divided They Fall
Tory disputes over Brexit are nothing new. But today’s crisis in Theresa May’s party highlights deeper fractures in the Conservative base.
The SPD Should Return to Its Anticolonial Roots
Germany’s Social Democrats now have a chance to make amends for the German empire’s genocidal policies in Africa. In doing so, they’d be returning to the party’s anti-imperialist roots.
The Left Needs Its Own Foreign Policy
Outrage at US complicity in the war on Gaza has pushed many Americans to think about international politics for the first time. The Left should seize this moment to push its vision of how the global order should run.
The Slow Violence of Climate Change
The spectacle of international climate negotiations shows that climate justice won't come through existing institutions.
US Military Bases Are Key Pieces of the Global War Machine
We don’t hear about them very often, but the estimated 800 US military bases around the globe have played an essential role in turning the whole world into a bloody battlefield. Any effort to roll back US empire has to include dismantling the machinery of US military bases.
Defending the Faith
The Catholic Church waged a century-long war against the Irish left.
The Slaughter of Hiroshima
On this day in 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Here's one survivor's story.
The Counterculture’s Come-to-Jesus Moment
How a corruption of New Left ideology became fodder for the religious right.
The Vast, Stupid, Useless Wall
The United States' dependence on the labor of immigrants is exactly what confirms their rights. And that's the last thing the Donald Trumps of the world want to confront.
The Rich and Poor Don’t All Suffer Under the Pandemic Equally
Versions of today’s global pandemic nightmare have been imagined by Hollywood since the 1990s. But films like Contagion and Outbreak have all overlooked the way a health crisis is unevenly distributed across classes, both in the United States and around the world.
To Recover From This Crisis, We Need to Defund Wall Street
Bromides about a V-shaped economic recovery after the pandemic just distract us from the size of the task that we face. We were already headed for crisis before COVID-19 — only a far-reaching reorientation of the economy can stave off social collapse.
Cracks in Correísmo?
Protests are growing in Ecuador, where radicals must contend with both the Right and Rafael Correa.
Why the US Loses Wars
The United States has the most powerful military in the world. Yet it just keeps losing wars. Why?
The Nature of Capitalism
The ruling class will never give up fossil fuel, because it's key to their power over workers.
Donald Trump, Lumpen Capitalist
The most important thing about Donald Trump isn’t his psychological condition — it’s that he’s a capitalist. And a particular kind of capitalist at that: a lumpen capitalist.
The Many Faces of the Indian Left
In India, even as prominent left parties falter, radicalism persists.
Anti-Communist Massacres Killed Indonesia’s Hopes for National Liberation and Socialism
The mass slaughter of leftists in Indonesia was more than just another Washington-backed atrocity. It was the prototype for smashing the hopes and dreams of the Left in the developing world — for good.