Trans Sports Bans Reveal State Power Serving Cultural Division
The Supreme Court case on transgender athletes represents far more than a debate about athletic competition—it exemplifies how state power mobilizes cultural issues to fragment potential class solidarity while serving entrenched interests. Twenty-seven states have enacted sports bans affecting a...
UK State Balances Security Theater Against Capital Interests
This UK politics live blog reveals the contradictory priorities of the British state as it navigates between theatrical security concerns, healthcare crisis management, and immigration enforcement—all while serving capital's fundamental interests. The Chinese embassy controversy demonstrates how...
State Violence Escalates as Immigration Enforcement Meets Working-Class Resistance
The killing of Renee Good by ICE officers and the subsequent deployment of 'hundreds more' federal agents to Minneapolis reveals the fundamental tension between state enforcement of immigration policy and working-class communities. This live blog captures multiple intersecting crises: domestic...
State Violence Against Press Reveals Immigration Enforcement's True Targets
The dramatic surge in violence against journalists covering immigration enforcement—172 documented assaults in 2025 compared to 175 over the previous three years combined—exposes a fundamental tension in the American state apparatus. While the First Amendment theoretically protects press freedom...
Criminal Probe Exposes Fight Over Who Controls US Money
The Trump administration's criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell represents a significant moment in the ongoing struggle over monetary policy control in the United States. While framed as a dispute over building renovations and congressional testimony, the underlying...
Trump's Greenland Gambit Exposes NATO's Imperial Contradictions
The escalating confrontation between the United States and its ostensible NATO allies over Greenland reveals the fundamental contradiction at the heart of the Western alliance: it was never truly about collective defense or shared democratic values, but rather about managing inter-imperialist...
Disgraced Tory Chancellor Joins Farage's Reform UK
The defection of former Conservative Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi to Reform UK represents not a genuine political transformation but rather a strategic repositioning of capital-aligned political actors within Britain's rightward-shifting electoral landscape. Zahawi, forced from cabinet over tax...
Venezuelan Opposition Leader's Nobel Gesture Reveals US Imperial Dynamics
María Corina Machado's attempt to share her Nobel Peace Prize with Donald Trump following the US military seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro exposes the intricate relationship between comprador political figures and imperial power. The Nobel Committee's swift rejection—citing the...
China Crushes Underground Churches to Maintain Ideological Control
The Chinese state's intensifying suppression of unregistered Christian communities reveals a fundamental tension within actually existing socialism: the contradiction between a nominally atheist party-state and the persistent religious consciousness of significant portions of the working class...