Daily Digest

The UK Competition and Markets Authority's agreement with Apple and Google reveals the fundamental contradiction at the heart of capitalist state regulation: the state's structural dependence on capital accumulation limits its capacity to meaningfully constrain that same capital. Despite formally...

French President Macron's declaration of a 'profound geopolitical rupture' reveals the deepening contradictions within the transatlantic alliance and the broader capitalist world order. As US-China competition intensifies, European capital finds itself caught between maintaining its subordinate...

This compilation of developments around Trump's immigration enforcement campaign reveals the state apparatus operating in its most visible coercive mode. The shooting deaths of protesters in Minneapolis, detention of workers with valid permits, and repurposing of school surveillance systems for...

This live blog captures a revealing moment where cultural spectacle and state violence intersect. Trump's attack on Bad Bunny's historic Spanish-language Super Bowl performance—calling it an 'affront to the Greatness of America'—functions as ideological theater while buried in the same news cycle...

The accelerating crisis within Keir Starmer's government reveals the fundamental contradictions of a Labour Party that abandoned any pretense of representing working-class interests in favor of managing capitalism on behalf of its dominant class. The resignations of Morgan McSweeney and Tim...

BP's current predicament exemplifies the fundamental contradictions of fossil fuel capitalism in the era of climate crisis. The company abandoned its green energy diversification strategy to return to core oil and gas production—just as global crude prices collapsed to their lowest levels in five...

The coordinated right-wing media attack on New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani over lingering snow reveals less about municipal governance than about the ideological apparatus mobilized against socialist political leadership. Despite record-low crime statistics in his first month—the fewest murders...

The Mandelson-Epstein affair crystallizes a fundamental truth about capitalist democracy: the governing class forms a transnational network whose interests transcend the partisan theatre presented to voters. A Labour peer allegedly passed market-sensitive government information during the 2008...

The suspension of Lord Rennard over sexual harassment allegations—thirteen years after women first came forward—illuminates the class character of British political institutions. The House of Lords, an unelected chamber where aristocratic and capitalist class interests find permanent...