How Can Workers Fight Back? Just under a year ago, John Healey, Labour’s Defence Secretary in Britain, visited a munitions factory. There, he made a speech extolling the virtues of a dawning new era of “military Keynesianism.” Slashing overseas aid budgets and “reinforcing the British industrial base” would lead to “more jobs in every part […]
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The general strike of May 1926 didn’t fall from a clear blue sky; the conditions for it had been ripening over decades. The situation had come near to general strikes in 1919, 1921 and 1925. The British economy was on its knees following World War I, with the capitalists making workers pay for their crisis. […]
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Soccer has always been celebrated as a working-class sport. Played in streets, parks and schoolyards, all that’s needed is a ball. But the Canadian working class will pay a heavy price for the FIFA World Cup 2026, while corporations and the wealthy benefit. The huge, 104-game tournament is set to be the most profitable sporting […]
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The NASA-led Artemis II mission is not merely a new chapter in “space exploration.” It represents a new phase in the expansion of imperialism beyond Earth. The Artemis program and its various missions are presented as necessary steps toward establishing a human presence on the Moon and, ultimately, reaching Mars. But just as “exploration” by […]
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On 19 April, Trump posted on Truth Social declaring “NO MORE MR. NICE GUY,” threatening to end the ceasefire and carry out wide-ranging attacks on Iranian infrastructure. Two days later — on the eve of the ceasefire deadline and in the type of walk-back now characteristic of Trump — he announced a one-sided ceasefire extension […]
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Towards a fragile deal or an escalating war? With hours left of the “ceasefire” with Iran, Trump is zigzagging between announcing that he is “very close to a fair deal” and again threatening to “knock out every power plant and bridge” in Iran. Seven weeks into this war, the Bonaparte in the White House has […]
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“Coming on top of the Ukraine and tariff wars, the Iran war is shaping up to be the biggest stagflationary shock the world has seen in five decades.” (Kenneth Rogoff, former Chief Economist of the IMF) Donald Trump has retreated from his April 8th deadline to flatten Iran, but the current temporary ceasefire can still […]
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The next step – a workers’ struggle for real change The parliamentary election in Hungary on April 12 turned into a stinging and historic defeat for the autocratic Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his party, the ruling far-right Fidesz. The election dealt a blow to all the world’s Trumpists and resulted in a defeat for […]
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Less than an hour and a half before Trump’s apocalyptic threat that “an entire civilization will die tonight, never to return” risked becoming a horrific reality, Washington backed down. Trump announced that he had agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran. The pause in the war provides at least a temporary respite for the people […]
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