During the Yom Kippur War in 1973, Arab oil producers cut off exports to Israel’s allies. But faced with today’s Israeli war on Gaza, Gulf states dismiss the idea of using the “oil weapon” — an index of how much they have abandoned the Palestinian cause.
Bizarre cults. Anticommunist paranoia. Facebook stalking. Meet Trevor Loudon, founder of the antisocialist website KeyWiki.
The revolutionary socialist vision is a vital one. Today’s rising socialist movement shouldn’t discard it.
Rudi Dutschke was West Germany’s most prominent radical in the late 1960s and a hate figure for Axel Springer’s media group. Dutschke’s internationalism is more vital than ever today as the German power elite tries to criminalize international solidarity.
Labour’s plan for a Green Industrial Revolution promised to put climate crisis at the heart of Britain’s general election. But the need for radical solutions soon dropped off the agenda — allowing the defining issue of our time to be once again ignored.
The US has long been a lawless aggressor and a threat to peace, but in the past it at least tried to prettify its policies. By openly refusing to leave Iraq at the request of its government, Donald Trump has let the mask slip.
Bernie Sanders often argues, “Beating Trump is not good enough.” This is an understatement. The world quite literally depends on us winning a political revolution. Only Bernie has a plan for that.
Donald Trump’s escalating attacks on Bernie Sanders show that he’s starting to realize something that still escapes most pundits: Sanders would be his toughest opponent to beat in November.
In 1992, the Cold War was over. But the Defense Department was already planning for the next one.
In the 1970s American mercenaries traveled to Angola and Rhodesia, seized by racist, anticommunist dreams and delusions of grandeur.
Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen relies on lucrative weapons deals with the West. But the arms shipments can’t happen if dockers refuse to load the ships — and in France and Italy, they’ve already taken strike action to stop the Saudi war machine.
Just a year ago, liberals were terrified of Trump starting a war with North Korea. Now they seem scared he might defuse the standoff with Pyongyang.
Muslims are working on Bernie Sanders’s campaign at the highest levels, they’re canvassing for him, and they’re even praying for him. And for good reason: Bernie is the strongest candidate for Muslims at home and abroad.
The Saudi-led, US-backed war in Yemen has produced a humanitarian hellscape. And there's no end in sight.
Writing in Jacobin, Ecuador’s former foreign minister under Rafael Correa analyzes the cracks in Israel’s international standing that seem to be emerging — even in the United States.
We can’t avoid confronting the Pentagon and the massive (and lucrative) security state it oversees.
If socialists want to take power through the ballot box, we have to be ready for when capitalists stop playing by the rules.
The Index on Censorship, a right-wing nonprofit led by a vicious Jeremy Corbyn opponent that receives funding from the US government, has named Mexican president AMLO its annual “Tyrant of the Year.” Come on.
Glenn Greenwald on Russiagate and the comforting answers it offers to despondent liberals.
Voters aren’t even telling pollsters that crime is a top issue for them. That isn’t stopping President Joe Biden from shifting to the right on crime anyway.