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Russia's 200-drone assault on Ukraine encapsulates the contradictions of contemporary inter-imperialist conflict. While Trump promises imminent peace and Putin hints at an end to invasion, the material reality—massive attacks on civilian infrastructure, energy facilities, and transportation...

This live blog captures a striking tableau of contemporary European capitalism: elderly British tourists confined on a cruise ship in Bordeaux due to a suspected norovirus outbreak, while simultaneously NATO leaders gather in Bucharest to coordinate military responses to Russian aggression. The...

The political turmoil engulfing the Labour Party represents far more than a personality clash between Starmer and Streeting—it exposes the fundamental contradiction at the heart of social democratic politics in the neoliberal era. Labour, ostensibly a party founded by trade unions to represent...

The Labour Party's leadership crisis offers a stark demonstration of how bourgeois parliamentary democracy operates under conditions of capitalist crisis. What appears as a contest between personalities—Starmer versus Streeting versus Burnham—is fundamentally a debate within capital's political...

This Guardian liveblog captures a snapshot of European capitalist governance at a moment of acute crisis, revealing the fundamental contradictions of the current conjuncture. EU defense ministers convene in Brussels to discuss allocating €90 billion for Ukraine and expanding domestic arms...

The Pentagon's congressional testimony reveals the material contradictions at the heart of US imperial policy in the Middle East. A war initially promised to last six weeks has already consumed $29 billion with no end in sight, while simultaneously depleting critical munitions stockpiles that...

The MV Hondius hantavirus outbreak offers a stark illustration of how global health infrastructure operates along class and imperial lines. A virus endemic to Argentina—where it affects rural and working-class populations with little international fanfare—becomes an 'unprecedented' emergency only...

The Labour Party's leadership crisis reveals the fundamental contradiction facing social democratic parties under contemporary capitalism: they promise to represent working-class interests while governing within constraints that demand service to capital. Keir Starmer's speech—acknowledging...

This article presents a striking juxtaposition that exposes the fundamental class dynamics of contemporary British capitalism. On one side, financial markets—embodied by bond traders and currency speculators—exercise immediate discipline over a nominally social-democratic government, pushing...