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India: 300 million take to the streets in historic national strike

Abdul Rahman23 February 2026

Three hundred million workers, farmers, students and professionals took to the streets across India on February 12, in defence of their rights and to denounce the policies of Narendra Modi’s ultra-right-wing government. Workers went on strike, shutting down thousands of coal fields, refineries and factories, and banking and transportation in remote corners of the country, […]

Documentary film review: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Callum Joyce23 February 2026

Eyewitness to the failed 2002 coup against Hugo Chávez and the popular fightback it provoked Callum Joyce, Socialist Party National Committee On 11 April 2002, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez was arrested and removed from power by leading figures in the Venezuelan military with the backing of big business, the private media, and religious leaders. The reforms […]

Alex Callinicos: Marco Rubio’s Munich speech is far from reassuring

Alex Callinicos17 February 2026

Rubio with JD Vance Rubio repeated the Trump administration’s regular complaints about neoliberal globalisation, mass migration and ‘a climate cult’ threatening ‘Western civilisation’. Any doubt that European capitalism prefers to remain the junior partner of the United States was removed by the standing ovation the Munich Security Conference gave to Marco Rubio last Saturday. The […]

Media Statement 15 February 2026

SAFTU17 February 2026

SAFTU STATEMENT CONDEMNS THE ASSASSINATION OF ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO LEADER ZWELI “KHABAZELA” MKHIZE The South African Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) expresses its deepest shock, outrage, and anger at the barbaric assassination of Comrade Zweli “Khabazela” Mkhize, the Treasurer of the eNkanini branch of Abahlali baseMjondolo, who was gunned down on the evening of Thursday, 12 […]

On Adam Hanieh’s Crude Capitalism

Andy Higginbottom16 February 2026

Adam Hanieh, Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (Verso, 2024), 336 pages. Adam Hanieh’s new book, Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market(Verso, 2024) could not be timelier. As all eyes turn to Baku for COP29, the capitalist world heads to yet another performance of misdirection. In […]

Bad Bunny and the Super Bowl Halftime Show That Rebuked Trump’s Death Cult With A Celebration Of Life

Dave Zirin11 February 2026

The past year in Stephen Miller’s America has been unbearably bleak. When masked thugs with “blanket immunity” kidnap five year olds and murder nurses, it tends to darken the national mood. But international mega-star Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio (a.k.a Bad Bunny) took the stage during the Super Bowl halftime show and gave the best possible […]

VENEZUELA: Redemocratise society and politics to overcome the colonial situation

Luísa Bonilla-Molina11 February 2026

Maduro’s regime not only buried the progressive elements of Chavismo but also destroyed democracy. The events of January 3rd, with the US aggression, represented a profound blow to the Republic and ushered in a colonial situation that clearly demonstrates the historic defeat of the Bolivarian project and the 21st-century socialism embodied by Hugo Chávez Frías. […]

Noam Chomsky, Jeffrey Epstein and the Politics of Betrayal

Chris Hedges11 February 2026

I don’t expect much from politicians, corporate tycoons, the presidents of prestigious universities, billionaire philanthropists, celebrities, royalty or oligarchs. They live in narcissistic and hedonistic bubbles that cater to their self-worship and moral depravity. But I do expect a lot from intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky. The explanation by his wife Valéria – Noam suffered […]

Oupa Lehulere, Renowned South African Marxist

James Kilgore3 February 2026

I FIRST MET Oupa Lehulere in 1992. He took a job at Khanya College where I was the coordinator. At that historical moment, the foundation of post-apartheid South Africa was being laid. It was an incredibly challenging, complicated, often confusing time. Oupa helped us make sense of it. He was the right person in the […]

Iran: Regime Change or Leader Change

Saeed Rahnema28 January 2026

Iran is once again in turmoil. Street uprisings have shaken the very foundations of the clerical regime, and its apparatus of repression is brutally killing unarmed demonstrators. The current movement shares both similarities and differences with the previous mass movement of 2022, Woman / Life / Freedom. That earlier movement was primarily social and cultural in […]

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