This Guardian investigation provides a textbook case of what Marxists call the capitalist state functioning as an executive committee for managing the affairs of the bourgeoisie. Bayer's CEO secured a private meeting with the EPA's top officials to discuss the corporation's legal strategy for...
This live blog captures a moment of cascading crisis in the American imperial state, where the contradictions of late capitalist governance have become impossible to obscure. The most striking revelation is structural: while the Department of Homeland Security shutdown has crippled TSA and...
This sprawling live blog captures British politics in crisis-management mode, revealing how state actors navigate between competing class pressures during geopolitical turmoil. Chancellor Rachel Reeves hedges on fuel duty while Reform UK's Farage stages theatrical petrol station protests, framing...
This live blog captures a single day in American imperial governance, revealing how foreign military aggression and domestic political maneuvering serve interconnected class interests. The Pentagon's announcement of the 'most intense day of strikes' against Iran, combined with Trump's threat to...
This article reveals the fundamental contradiction at the heart of capitalist governance during imperialist conflict: the state must simultaneously serve capital accumulation while managing the social consequences that threaten political stability. Starmer's government finds itself caught between...
The Guardian's investigation into the long-delayed examination of Jeffrey Epstein's Zorro Ranch exposes a fundamental contradiction in capitalist justice systems: the state apparatus ostensibly designed to protect all citizens systematically fails when powerful interests are at stake. For seven...
The conviction of Takeshi Ebisawa for attempting to sell nuclear materials reveals contradictions far deeper than one individual's criminal enterprise. The case exposes how decades of imperial intervention—from the destabilization of Myanmar to the collapse of Soviet nuclear oversight to ongoing...
The case of Jack Mazurek illuminates how the capitalist state deploys its repressive apparatus not merely to prosecute crimes but to discipline social movements that challenge police militarization and environmental destruction. Mazurek endured two months in jail, eighteen months of house arrest...
The dismissal of Kristi Noem as DHS Secretary reveals how the capitalist state manages political crises while preserving its core repressive functions. Despite Democratic celebrations, the replacement of one hardline immigration enforcer with another—Senator Markwayne Mullin, described as a 'MAGA...