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The nomination of Senator Markwayne Mullin to lead the Department of Homeland Security reveals the theatrical nature of ruling-class legitimacy in the American political system. Mullin—who inherited a plumbing company rather than building one, and who has constructed an elaborate mythology around...

This story exposes a critical intersection of imperial overreach and labor exploitation in the neoliberal era. Over 200 American contractors employed by V2X are effectively held hostage on an Iraqi air base—not by enemy forces, but by the structural imperatives of their own employer and the US...

The escalating US-Israeli war against Iran represents a crystallization of multiple contradictions within the contemporary imperialist order. At its core, this conflict exposes the fundamental tension between capital's need for stable commodity flows—particularly oil and gas through the Strait of...

This PMQs session reveals the spectacular nature of bourgeois parliamentary politics: while Starmer and Badenoch trade accusations over Islamophobia and the Mandelson-Epstein connection, the substantive economic questions raised by the Green Party's Polanski go largely unaddressed. The real...

The Guardian's revelation that Britain's national security adviser Jonathan Powell attended US-Iran negotiations and judged a deal was achievable exposes a fundamental contradiction at the heart of imperial foreign policy: the stated goal of preventing nuclear proliferation versus the material...

This live politics coverage reveals two interlocking dynamics shaping British politics: a public health emergency exposing the material consequences of healthcare rationing, and right-wing populist forces exploiting economic precarity to advance regressive class politics. The meningitis outbreak...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves's Mais Lecture announces £2.5bn in AI and quantum computing investment while pursuing deeper EU ties, all framed as universal economic growth. Yet the material conditions reveal a starkly different picture: personal insolvencies have jumped 18%, debt relief orders hit...

The Guardian's live coverage of 'Trumpflation' reveals how imperialist military intervention in Iran is creating cascading economic shocks that fall disproportionately on working-class households while generating windfall profits for energy capital. The article documents a stark contradiction at...

The Trump administration's conflict with the Supreme Court over tariff authority represents not a battle between democracy and authoritarianism, but rather a factional dispute within the capitalist class over how best to manage declining U.S. hegemony. The president's late-night social media...