Ukraine Peace Talks Shadowed by Weapons Profits and Imperial Rivalry
Russia's record-breaking missile and drone assault on Ukraine's energy infrastructure—launched as temperatures plunged to -20°C and left hundreds of thousands without heat—exposes the fundamental contradictions between rhetorical commitments to peace and the material logic driving this conflict's...
State Power Deployed: Courts, Comedians, and Class Warfare
This live blog captures multiple fronts of class struggle in the Trump administration's second term, revealing how state power operates as an instrument of capital accumulation and social control. The disparate stories—from threatened lawsuits against comedians to offshore wind blockades to...
Mandelson-Epstein Ties Expose Elite Impunity Networks
The unraveling of Peter Mandelson's relationship with Jeffrey Epstein offers a window into how bourgeois political systems function—not through formal corruption alone, but through dense networks of class solidarity among elites that transcend party lines, national borders, and even criminal...
Mandelson Scandal Exposes Finance Capital's Grip on State Policy
The Mandelson-Epstein scandal reveals far more than one politician's moral failures—it exposes the structural relationship between finance capital and the capitalist state. The leaked documents show a sitting cabinet minister actively advising a convicted sex offender on how to pressure the...
European Elites Scramble as US Hegemony Fragments Global Order
Mario Draghi's declaration that the current world order is 'dead' represents a rare moment of candor from a ruling-class figure about the terminal crisis of post-Cold War liberal internationalism. Yet his diagnosis remains firmly within capitalist logic: the threat is not the collapsing order...
Flood Devastation Reveals Centuries of Capitalist Wetland Destruction
Storm Chandra's devastation of British wildlife reveals not a natural disaster but the accumulated consequences of capitalist transformation of the landscape. The UK has lost over 90% of its wetlands in the past century—a systematic destruction driven by agricultural intensification and land...
US Tightens Noose on Cuba: Siege Economics in Action
The Trump administration's threat to impose tariffs on any country selling oil to Cuba represents imperialism at its most naked: the deliberate engineering of a humanitarian catastrophe to achieve regime change. With Cuba facing complete fuel depletion within three weeks, we witness the material...
Supply Chain Crisis Reveals Capitalism's Fragile Global Dependencies
This article illuminates a fundamental tension within globalized capitalism: the same system that drove production across oceans to exploit cheaper labor and weaker regulations now finds those extended supply chains increasingly vulnerable to disruption. The Chartered Institute of Procurement and...
Paris Mayoral Race: Managing Austerity, Not Fighting It
The Paris mayoral election, framed as a dramatic left-versus-right showdown, actually reveals the narrow parameters of political contestation under neoliberal capitalism. Both major candidates operate within a framework that accepts privatization, tourism-driven economic development, and the...