Where Is The “Safe Zone” #AllEyesOnRafah
#alleyesonrafah I strongly condemn the latest attack on a camp in Rafah and other densely populated areas. Children are reported … Continue reading Where Is The “Safe Zone” #AllEyesOnRafah
#alleyesonrafah I strongly condemn the latest attack on a camp in Rafah and other densely populated areas. Children are reported … Continue reading Where Is The “Safe Zone” #AllEyesOnRafah
Indian conglomerate rejects accusations of inflating prices in transactions with state utility Adani Group passed off low-quality coal as far … Continue reading Adani suspected of fraud by selling low-grade coal as high-value fuel
The fetish for gold will vanish if the global community were to fully grasp the shocking level of environmental degradation … Continue reading The rise of gold and the fall of dollar
America’s universities are on fire. A protest movement against the violence in Gaza and U.S. colleges’ complicity in them has … Continue reading Follow the money: How Israel-linked billionaires silenced U.S. campus protests
Freedom of expression is supposed to be a cornerstone of democracy. All views, even the most disagreeable, must be allowed to … Continue reading Communists say: capitalism is incompatible with free speech!
Researchers have developed new and more robust ways to measure global extreme poverty, based on people’s access to essential goods. This … Continue reading Changing our understanding of global poverty – here’s what you need to know
The US blockade against Cuba, like the genocide in Gaza, is a constant reminder of the egregious violence of the … Continue reading Climate, energy and natural resources
Farmers in both regions are fighting against urban bias in agricultural policies, and for a role in shaping a sustainable future … Continue reading How farmers’ protests in Europe and India share common ground
A lot of effort is on in India and the world to identify the values that form the lifeforce of … Continue reading The Adivasi Way Of Life At Stake
The oppression of women and the origins of the family as we know it remain key issues facing anyone who … Continue reading The fall of woman: property, oppression and the family
Chris Hedges: Our leading humanitarian and civic institutions, including major medical institutions, refuse to denounce Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This … Continue reading The Silence of the Damned
There is much talk in the media about diplomatic pressure being put on the Israeli government by their allies in … Continue reading Israel: Netanyahu’s dangerous game
Joe Biden relies on advisors who view the world through the prism of the West’s civilizing mission to the “lesser … Continue reading The Four Horsemen of Gaza’s Apocalypse
The date of 21 January 2024 marks the centenary of the death of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known to the … Continue reading Lenin: 100 years on
Israel’s expanding ground offensive has forced desperate Palestinians to ferry their children from place to place in search of ever-elusive … Continue reading 100 days of war in Gaza: Besieged Palestinians feel isolated, abandoned and afraid
What mad ideas lie behind capitalism’s drive towards planetary catastrophe? There’s a complicated question we can’t run away from anymore. … Continue reading Do capitalists want to kill humanity… and themselves?
Palestinian journalists Hamza al-Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya were killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Gaza on Sunday, while driving … Continue reading Israel murders ‘record-breaking’ number of journalists in Gaza
The International Court of Justice may be all that stands between the Palestinians in Gaza and genocide. The exhaustive 84-page … Continue reading The Case for Genocide
On Thursday and Friday of this week, arguments will be heard in the International Court of Justice in extraordinary proceedings … Continue reading International Court of Justice complaint demonstrates that Israel is carrying out genocide
“Those whom the gods seek to destroy, they first make mad.” “Never hate your enemy. It affects your judgement.” (Michael … Continue reading The Middle East on the brink: imperialists pour petrol on the flames
Neo-fascist rulers like Javier Milei propose to control inflation not by curbing capital flight, but by launching a massive attack … Continue reading Argentina: Upsurge of Neo-Fascism and ‘Dollarisation’
The International Court of Justice will hear arguments next week on Israel’s genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people There is … Continue reading The fate of global justice hangs on South Africa’s ICJ case
By obscuring and falsifying the lessons of the Holocaust we perpetuate the evil that defined it Israel’s lebensraum master plan for Gaza, … Continue reading Israel’s genocide betrays the Holocaust
Protests and demonstrations in solidarity with the Palestinian people, who are being butchered by the Israeli military, have been dubbed … Continue reading Marxists and the call for Intifada: what it really means
With the IDF continuing to blast Gaza into bloodied rubble, Houthi militants (who control the West of Yemen) have retaliated … Continue reading Red Sea attacks: imperialists protect profits, and permit Israel to pulverise Palestine
The year 2023 is coming to an end. This year was by no means a good one for the working … Continue reading China: class struggle about to enter a new, more volatile chapter
Settler colonial states have a terminal shelf life. Israel is no exception Israel will appear triumphant after it finishes its … Continue reading The death of Israel
I want to make a brief intervention here to highlight an aspect of degrowth climate mitigation strategy that has so … Continue reading ACCELERATIONIST POSSIBILITIES IN AN ECOSOCIALIST DEGROWTH SCENARIO
As the year comes to a close, the complete failure of the much-hyped Ukrainian counter-offensive has opened a chorus of … Continue reading NATO staring defeat in the face in Ukraine
In a world where hunger, drought, and gender-related conflicts intertwine, the narrative of despair becomes palpable, especially for the vulnerable, … Continue reading Climate Crisis, Human Suffering, and Hope: A Global Perspective
Global warming is one of the most discussed subjects of recent times. This article explores the nuanced relationship between carbon … Continue reading Global Warming – The Dance of CO2
FOR A CONSISTENTLY DEMOCRATIC AND INTERNATIONALIST LEFT A contribution to left renewal and transformation We have been watching the civilian … Continue reading Problems with Israel/Palestine Left Activism & More: A contribution to the debate on left renewal and transformation
On the night of November 29, 2023, the public was informed of the death of Henry A. Kissinger, former National … Continue reading The world’s oppressed will shed no tears for Henry Kissinger
Phase One of Israel’s genocidal campaign on Gaza has ended. Phase Two will result in even higher levels of death … Continue reading Israel reopens the Gaza slaughterhouse
Free speech is under attack. Israel’s imperialist allies are losing the war of public opinion as they struggle to justify the … Continue reading A new McCarthyism targets Palestine solidarity – defend free speech!
Throughout the self-proclaimed ‘civilised’ western world, the ruling classes have banded together to denounce Hamas’ attack on Israel on 7 … Continue reading Kenya Mau Mau uprising: when British imperialism conducted a colonial war of terror in ‘self-defence’
Rice growing farmer communities refuse to accept new fortified rice kernels, while public health experts express concern at the food … Continue reading ‘Plastic Rice’: Why the Govt’s Experiment With an Artificial Grain is Hard to Swallow for Rural Adivasis
A close to united Norwegian political elite portrays the climate challenge as an existential crisis. It is the biggest challenge … Continue reading Why don’t we do what matters? The world should demand that Norway uses its oil wealth for a green future
The ethnic cleansing of Palestine is inseparable from the racialised structures of Zionism, which receives unbridled support from Europe and … Continue reading Israel-Palestine war: This is not about Hamas. It’s a 75-year colonial war
Israel has become a classic example of settler colonialism in contemporary times, as also a model picture of apartheid. The … Continue reading Time to Stop Settler Colonialism Under Cloak of ‘Victimhood’
In recent weeks, hundreds of thousands of workers and youth across the US have joined the Palestine solidarity movement. We … Continue reading The demand for a ceasefire in Gaza and the communist response
The brutal bombing of Gaza City, with the huge numbers killed – well over 11,000 officially recorded so far, with … Continue reading Palestine: the threat of a second Nakba
Israel has become a classic example of settler colonialism in contemporary times, as also a model picture of apartheid. The … Continue reading Time to Stop Settler Colonialism Under Cloak of ‘Victimhood’
Bourgeois democracy in Austria is in a senile crisis. Like in other countries in Europe, the Hamas attacks of 7 … Continue reading Austria: communists the focus of political attacks as Gaza war accelerates crisis
Israel uses Palestinians imprisoned in Gaza as human guinea pigs for its weapons and technology industries CAIRO, Egypt — The … Continue reading Israel is shutting down its human laboratory in Gaza
As with the war in Ukraine, different communist parties around the world have taken different and even opposite positions regarding … Continue reading The Communist Party of Greece and the struggle for the liberation of Palestine: a necessary debate
8 November, marks 400 years since the publication of the first volume of Shakespeare’s collected plays, known as his “First … Continue reading William Shakespeare: a revolutionary in literature
Today, when war in some part of the world or the other has become a constant and we are researching … Continue reading Who is the greater, Alexander the Great or Fleming?
In the recently released Global Hunger Index (GHI) for 2023, India has been ranked at the 111th position out of … Continue reading India’s Fight Against Poverty and Hunger
Friday (3rd of November), Delhi woke up to a thick layer of toxic smog, as the IQAir put the city’s … Continue reading Air Quality Crisis in Delhi and Agroecological Alternatives
A few signs depicting Benjamin Netanyahu as Adolf Hitler were postered in Sydney over the weekend. The police reportedly are … Continue reading Everyone is Hitler, when it suits—just not Western leaders
Last month, Israel arrested over 2,000 Palestinians, subjecting them to degrading treatment that amounts to torture. The failure of our … Continue reading Locked in Despair: Palestinian Hostages in Israeli Prisons
According to UNHCR global estimates, some 108.4 million people were forcibly displaced by the end of 2022. These days world’s … Continue reading Letter to the Readers
By Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv Originally published: The Washington Post on February 7, 1988 TWO WEEKS after the end of the … Continue reading EXPELLING PALESTINIANS
The Israeli army, after much prevarication, finally started ground operations in Gaza over the weekend. But it was not a … Continue reading Gaza: the land offensive begins – but what next?
Preamble: “Our knowledge and control of the natural world, now science is seen as coping with many uncertainties in policy issues … Continue reading Reconciling Paradoxes in Climate Policy Making
To justify its genocidal bombardment of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli state, with the complicity of Western imperialists, tries to … Continue reading War, peace, and bourgeois morality
Poetry is the pain of Gaza, it will hurt you time is ticking by,the world is standing by,images getting worse,voices … Continue reading Exploded child brains,Unborn in the wombs,Straight to the tomb,
As Israel prepares its forces for a land invasion of Gaza, all the western imperialist leaders, from Biden to Sunak, … Continue reading The nightmare of a Gaza land invasion and its consequences
With not even Europe fully supporting the US-UK stance on Israel, these two powers stand isolated globally. THE Israel-Palestine conflict … Continue reading A middle path needed to resolve Israel-Palestine conflict
Hamas’s recent attacks on Israel, in the presence of one of the best intelligence outfits in the world, has once … Continue reading Israel’s Role in Hamas’ Creation and its Retaliatory Genocide in Gaza
Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza is reaching a pivotal stage. The horrifying images of butchered civilians have provoked a wave … Continue reading Palestine: the failure of the two-state solution and the communist alternative
Israel’s war on Gaza has all the potential to escalate into a much bigger conflict, with fronts opening up on … Continue reading Israel-Palestine: imperialists worried war could escalate
Israel is not only decimating Gaza with airstrikes but employing the oldest and cruelest weapon of war — starvation. Israel’s … Continue reading Let Them Eat Cement
This week, from 14–18 October, the Dilemmas of Humanity conference brought together political leaders, activists, and organic intellectuals from around the world … Continue reading The Palestinian People Are Already Free
Trotsky warned in 1940 that the attempt to solve the ‘Jewish problem’ in Europe through the dispossession of the Palestinians … Continue reading The history of Israel-Palestine to 1993
In Gaza, Israel is gearing up to commit genocide. It is not doing so quietly. It is repeating its intent … Continue reading Impending Genocide
The failure to intervene to halt the carnage threatens to ignite violence across the region I have been in urban … Continue reading This way for the genocide, ladies and gentlemen
The following statement by varunvasunarayananblog the Readers Digest Guide To Intimate Relations declares our solidarity with the Palestinian people. It … Continue reading Down with hypocrisy! Defend Gaza! – RDGIR statement
Regimes implanted and maintained by violence engender violence The indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations, … Continue reading Palestinians speak the language of violence Israel taught them
AgricultureFar from seeing doubled incomes, farmers are caught in the pincer of low unfair prices for their produce and ever … Continue reading Doubling Farmer’s Income: A Tale of Empty Promises, Deceit and Propaganda
Monday 11 September marks the 50th anniversary of the 1973 coup that overthrew president Salvador Allende in Chile and installed … Continue reading Lessons of Chile 1973
Technology can realize greatly intensified forms of continuous democratic participation, but such applications must be openly developed and publicly owned. … Continue reading Tomorrow’s Democracy Is Open Source
They have mapped, step by step, India’s descent (although some see it as an ascent) into first majoritarianism and then … Continue reading The dismantling of democracy in India will affect the whole world
Socialism now needs to add a critical analysis of capitalism’s micro-level organization inside workplaces and households to its macro-level analyses … Continue reading Twenty-First Century Socialism: What It Will Become and Why
Here, we offer our perspective and analysis of the main trends that are shaping world politics and the class struggle … Continue reading The world in 2023: crisis, war and revolution
Topics : Books of Reviews Anti-racist Jewish Australian writer Antony Loewenstein’s latest book “The Palestine Laboratory” describes how genocidally racist … Continue reading Apartheid Israel Exports Surveillance Nightmare
Adrenalin comes from drama and status, the media shows because we watch, and it is a loop The tragedy of … Continue reading Tragedies at sea and two sides to a media coverage
The UAE is leading with a clear action plan to pave the way for sustainable solutions The European Union’s climate … Continue reading Responsible climate lobbying crucial for COP28’s success
The latest news shows that the economy is once again taking a turn for the worse. The Eurozone is in … Continue reading 2023: another global recession is coming
Recent developments in Artificial Intelligence have provoked a mixture of fear and enthusiasm across the world. In this article, I, … Continue reading Artificial Intelligence: doomsday for humanity, or for capitalism?
A new study by the London-based charity War On Want finds that, even though the global food system produces more … Continue reading 2.3 billion going hungry despite global overproduction of food
Some feminists argue that the term and notion of ‘prostitution’ should be abandoned and replaced by that of ‘sex work’. … Continue reading Women’s oppression and prostitution: a Marxist perspective
The report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows how capitalism undergirds the climate crisis. The UN Intergovernmental … Continue reading Is a Livable Future Still Possible? Discuss the IPCC Report.
Today’s mass demonstration in France brought the struggle against Macron to new heights. For the past two months, the movement … Continue reading France: the struggle surges forward – Macron must fall!
The US-led invasion of Iraq began 20 years ago. Since then, the country has been torn apart by war, sectarianism, … Continue reading 20 years since the invasion of Iraq: the brutal legacy of imperialism
In Britain, hundreds of thousands of workers have gone on strike in recent weeks – the latest wave in Britain’s … Continue reading Britain: Strikes and industrial militancy in the 1970s
This morning, banking shares fell rapidly – not only in the US and not just regional banks, but all over … Continue reading SVB collapse shows the fragility of the capitalist economy
Ukraine’s bloody anniversary Exactly 12 months ago today, Russian tanks rolled across the border into Ukraine. The anniversary of that … Continue reading Ukraine’s bloody anniversary
The year is 2018. At the prestigious Christie’s fine art auction in New York City, a blurry portrait of a … Continue reading The death of the artist? A Marxist perspective on AI-generated art
“It’s bananas,” exclaimed Dr Erica Nelson, co-author of a paper on a collection of fuzzy, red smudges of light from … Continue reading The Big Bang: shoehorning the facts to fit the theory
Fishing is older than humanity. Paleontologists have found evidence that our ancestors Homo habilis and Homo erectus caught lake and river fish in east … Continue reading The Fishing Revolution and the Origins of Capitalism
More than a century after the commencement of the Great Crisis of 1914–1945, represented by the First World War, the … Continue reading The New Irrationalism
What is happening with the Israeli government’s attempted Supreme Court overhaul is not a judicial reform but more akin to an antidemocratic … Continue reading A disaster for democracy looms in Israel
We may witness widespread celebration on Valentine’s Day, but hate and bigotry persist Every year on 14 February, people worldwide … Continue reading How love can win over hate in today’s world
“Capitalism’s defining class struggle has always been that between the employer and employee classes. And the victory of the latter … Continue reading The Social Changes We Need, the Class Obstacle We Face
What questions do technologies like ChatGPT raise for employees and customers? If you ask something of Chatgpt, an artificial-intelligence (ai) tool … Continue reading The relationship between AI and humans
Apocalypse investors are pushing fake climate solutions on us that are making climate change worse. More than a decade ago, … Continue reading We are ‘greening’ ourselves to extinction
ChatGPT is not the only game in town Every so often a technology captures the world’s imagination. The latest example, judging … Continue reading The race of the AI labs heats up