Daily Digest

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...

The Iran war has exposed a fundamental vulnerability in Britain's energy infrastructure: a mere three weeks of fuel reserves separating orderly society from potential rationing. Yet the article reveals how the dominant response—calls for more North Sea drilling—reflects capital's preferred...

The US-Israel war on Iran, now entering its second month, represents a critical moment in the contradictions of American imperial power. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's confident assertion that military operations will conclude in 'weeks, not months' echoes the hubris of previous imperial...