Venezuelan Deportees Caught Between Due Process and State Terror
This case crystallizes the brutal intersection of immigration enforcement, carceral capitalism, and imperialist foreign policy. Luis Muñoz Pinto—an engineering student with no criminal record—was swept up in a deportation dragnet that used tattoos as gang evidence, then subjected to documented...
Starmer's Defence Push Reveals Capital's European Rearmament Drive
Keir Starmer's address at the Munich Security Conference represents a significant moment in European geopolitical realignment, but one that must be understood through its material foundations rather than its stated security rationale. The push for UK-EU defence integration, including potential...
EPA Climate Repeal Exposes State-Capital Alliance Against Working Class
This collection of news items reveals the Trump administration as a coordinated instrument of capital accumulation operating across multiple fronts. The centerpiece—revoking the EPA's endangerment finding—represents perhaps the clearest example of state capture by fossil fuel interests in recent...
Tariff Vote Cracks Open Capital's Internal Contradictions
This live blog captures a moment of genuine intra-capitalist friction: six House Republicans defied Trump to vote against tariffs on Canada, exposing divisions within the ruling class over how best to manage imperial trade relations. The tariff dispute represents a surface contradiction between...
Empire Under Strain: Domestic Repression Meets Imperial Overreach
This compendium of developments reveals the Trump administration navigating multiple crises simultaneously—each illuminating the contradictions of managing a declining imperial power. Netanyahu's push for harder Iran policies, a senior diplomat promoting European far-right movements, failed...
Immigration Crackdown Reveals State Violence Serving Capital
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...
Culture War Smokescreens Hide Immigration Crackdown's Class Violence
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...
Labour's Ruling Circle Devours Itself as Starmer Clings On
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...
Right-Wing Media Blames Socialist Mayor for Weather
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...