The UK's announcement of a £540 million weapons package for Ukraine, delivered at a NATO defence ministers' summit, reveals the material realities underlying contemporary European security arrangements. Notably, £150 million will flow to American weapons manufacturers through NATO's Prioritised...
The Spanish Catholic Church's video game campaign to boost church weddings reveals far more about the material transformation of Spanish society than about religious innovation. The dramatic collapse of church weddings—from over 55% in 2007 to under 18% in 2024—corresponds precisely with Spain's...
This Guardian liveblog reveals the interconnected crises facing European capitalism: escalating military expenditure, intensifying labor struggle, and the pressure to restructure economies under the banner of 'competitiveness.' The German strikes represent a significant moment of class...
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...
The US-Iran negotiations in Oman exemplify the fundamental contradiction at the heart of imperial diplomacy: talks conducted under explicit military threat cannot produce genuine peace, only managed subordination. The Trump administration's positioning of an 'armada' near Iranian waters while...
This live news roundup reveals the interconnected crises of contemporary capitalism through several seemingly disparate events. The attempted assassination of a Russian military intelligence chief occurs against the backdrop of stalled peace negotiations, while Norway warns of increased Russian...
The expiration of the New Start treaty represents far more than a diplomatic failure—it marks a qualitative shift in inter-imperialist relations as the post-Cold War framework of managed competition gives way to open rivalry. The treaty's collapse reflects the fundamental contradiction between...
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...
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...