Daily Digest

This live blog captures a moment of acute contradiction in British politics: the Starmer government attempting to position itself as both independent from US foreign policy demands and committed to managing capitalist crisis at home. The Iran war creates a legitimacy crisis for Labour—Trump's...

The escalating US-Israeli war on Iran strips away any pretense of humanitarian or security concerns, revealing the fundamental material interests at stake: control over global energy flows and the strategic chokepoints through which they pass. Trump's explicit statement that his 'preference would...

The decision to reline Cleveland-Cliffs' Middletown blast furnace rather than convert it to hydrogen power represents a textbook case of state policy serving capital accumulation at direct cost to working-class health. The Trump-Vance administration's cancellation of a $500 million clean energy...

The No Kings protests represent a significant moment in American class struggle, with 8 million participants across 3,300 demonstrations marking what organizers call the largest single-day protest in US history. The article reveals a sophisticated understanding among movement leaders that street...

The UK hospitality sector's crisis reveals the fundamental contradiction at the heart of capitalist enterprise: businesses depend on workers but treat their wages as costs to be minimized. Industry bodies present minimum wage increases—designed to ensure workers can afford basic necessities—as...

The US-Israeli war on Iran, now entering its second month, exposes the fundamental contradiction at the heart of contemporary imperialism: the gap between stated humanitarian and diplomatic objectives and the material pursuit of strategic resource control. While the White House claims diplomatic...

The US embassy's AI-generated corrido urging Mexican migrants to 'self-deport' represents a revealing moment in contemporary imperial statecraft. Unable to physically deport millions of workers whose labor remains essential to the US economy, the state apparatus turns to ideological...

The withdrawal of a YouGov survey on church attendance reveals far more than methodological problems in polling—it exposes fundamental contradictions in how knowledge is produced under digital capitalism. The survey industry's reliance on opt-in, paid respondents created an economic incentive...

The deployment of US Marines and paratroopers to the Persian Gulf represents a textbook case of military force serving capital accumulation. At the heart of this operation lies Kharg Island—through which 90% of Iran's oil exports flow—and control over the Strait of Hormuz, the chokepoint for...