The South African left today is dominated by parties of patronage and corruption and small sectarian groupings. If the Left is to rebuild itself, it needs to break with these elements and forge a movement committed to emancipatory working-class politics.
The Trump administration is withholding pay from legal aid groups while demanding they share confidential case data about the unaccompanied migrant children whom immigration enforcement agencies are trying to deport.
Other recent World Cup hosts used sports to prettify their image. But Donald Trump isn’t so much “sportswashing” as using the World Cup to show off the United States’ ability to discriminate against other teams and their fans.
The era of class compromise is never coming back. Any serious democratic socialist politics must pursue a politics of rupture with capitalism.
Graham Platner’s critics are operating with a politically motivated double standard.
Albania’s government is one of the most toadyish allies to Donald Trump and Israel. Yet as Jared Kushner seeks to tarmac a protected nature reserve in the country, Albanians are saying no to their cronyish government and its international allies.
The Chinese authorities have announced a reform of the hukou system that ties citizens to a particular region and fosters inequality. But proclamations of the system’s death are premature, as powerful social groups have an interest in maintaining it.
Barack Obama has attacked his party for its unwillingness to challenge institutional obstructions to enacting their agenda. It’s a fair criticism, but the 2009–10 retreat on a public option in Obamacare might be Exhibit A of this tendency.
For years, AI companies promised their product would become a democratized and abundant utility. But as the sector pivots toward business clients and financial and environmental costs rise, the question is whether its unequal gains justify the price.
Trump’s latest moves against Cuba show that Washington has never accepted the island’s defiance of US power. Now is the time for solidarity with the Cuban people.
Former roughneck turned journalist Don Gillmor chronicles how a resource boom became a governing ideology and how Canada became a global greenhouse pariah.
The mysterious deaths of two CIA agents in Mexico has raised questions about the Trump White House’s increasingly belligerent actions against the Latin American left.