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The UK government's rushed announcement of social media restrictions for under-16s reveals the structural tensions between capital accumulation and child welfare under neoliberalism. While Health Secretary Wes Streeting's comparison of Big Tech to Big Tobacco correctly identifies the extractive...

BP's removal of chairman Albert Manifold—the fourth senior executive departure in three years—crystallizes the contradictions plaguing fossil fuel capital as it abandons climate commitments while profiting from war-inflated prices. The company that pioneered corporate greenwashing under 'Beyond...

This live blog captures a day in the ongoing consolidation of right-wing power in America, revealing multiple simultaneous fronts of class warfare. The Texas Senate runoff between Cornyn and Paxton represents not a meaningful policy contest but an intra-class struggle over the preferred style of...

Pope Leo XIV's encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* represents a significant moment in institutional religion's engagement with technological capitalism, yet its critique remains fundamentally constrained by the Church's historical role as a legitimizing institution for ruling class interests. While...

This article reveals how modern financial capitalism has thoroughly commodified geopolitical conflict, transforming the possibility of peace or continued war into market signals that generate profits for capital while imposing material burdens on working people globally. The framing is telling...

The stalled US-Iran negotiations represent a crystallization of multiple contradictions within the American imperial project. On one hand, the Trump administration launched a war promising Iran's 'complete surrender,' yet now finds itself negotiating a framework that excludes Iran's ballistic...

The unfolding US-Iran peace negotiations reveal a profound structural crisis in American imperial management of the Middle East. Washington's inability to achieve military objectives—reopening the Strait of Hormuz, protecting Gulf allies, or forcing Iranian capitulation—has accelerated a...

Ohio State University's convergence of scandals—decades of covered-up sexual abuse, presidential corruption involving misuse of public funds, and systematic attacks on academic freedom—cannot be understood as isolated institutional failures. These crises emerge from the fundamental transformation...

The reported consultation between Andy Burnham and Sue Gray on forming a potential government reveals the profoundly technocratic nature of contemporary social democratic politics. What presents itself as a story about Labour's future is actually a demonstration of how thoroughly working-class...