Daily Digest

This collection of developments from February 2026 reveals the Trump administration operating on multiple fronts to consolidate class power while managing the contradictions inherent in both domestic governance and imperial relations. The attack on Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, the $1...

The Mandelson-Epstein affair reveals not merely individual moral failure but the systematic integration of political elites into transnational capitalist networks. Peter Mandelson, architect of New Labour's accommodation with finance capital, stands accused of leaking market-sensitive government...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...