Politics

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Progressive Christians Challenge Right's Monopoly on Faith

The conflict between progressive Christian organizers and the Trump administration's Christian nationalist rhetoric represents a significant ideological struggle within American religious life. This is not merely a theological dispute but a contest over which class interests Christianity will...

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Toxic Detention: Children Face Contamination at ICE Facility

The Trump administration's plan to house migrant children and families at England Airpark—a site with PFAS contamination 575,000 times above federal safety limits—reveals the intersection of immigration enforcement, environmental racism, and profit-driven carceral infrastructure. This is not...

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US Threatens UK Over War Support as Alliance Fractures

The leaked Pentagon memo threatening to reconsider US support for British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands represents a remarkable moment of inter-imperialist tension within the Western alliance. The United States, engaged in its war against Iran, is openly using diplomatic and economic...

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Border Crackdown Gets Billions While Social Security Crumbles

The Senate's 3 AM passage of a $70 billion budget resolution for ICE and Border Patrol crystallizes a fundamental truth about the capitalist state: when crisis hits, the repressive apparatus gets funded while social reproduction withers. This occurs against the backdrop of a US naval blockade of...

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Redistricting Wars Show Electoral System's Built-In Class Bias

The escalating redistricting battle between Democrats and Republicans reveals the fundamental contradiction at the heart of bourgeois democracy: a political system that presents itself as representative governance while structurally excluding working-class interests from meaningful participation...

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Labour's Crony Scandal Exposes Capitalist Party Contradictions

The Mandelson vetting scandal consuming Keir Starmer's government reveals far more than administrative incompetence—it exposes the fundamental class character of Labour's transformation into a party of managerial capitalism. The controversy centers on Starmer's appointment of Peter Mandelson, a...

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