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Wealth of the World’s Billionaires Has More Than Doubled Over the Past Decade
Driven largely by the accumulation of massive wealth by the richest people in the United States, the Swiss wealth manager UBS said Thursday the assets of billionaires around the world more than doubled...
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Israel and Apartheid South Africa Were the Closest of Friends
The contradictions at the heart of the State of Israel have had little impact on its success. This can be seen in Israel’s relationship with Africa. Many African states had backed Israel after 1948 in...
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Venezuela: Amid Fears of New Sanctions, Disputed Election, Maduro Proposes...
Speculation of more privatisations by the Nicolás Maduro government is growing amid fears incoming United States president Donald Trump may tighten sanctions on Venezuela. The moves also come as Maduro...
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French PM’s Ouster Shows Deep Cracks in Legitimacy of Europe’s Neoliberal Order
France’s National Assembly approved a no-confidence vote in Prime Minister Michel Barnier on Wednesday — just three months after he was appointed by the highly unpopular President Emmanuel Macron. The...
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On Climate Change, The International Court Of Justice Faces a Pivotal Choice
What legal obligations do states have to fight climate change? Should high-emitting countries be held responsible for the harm they’ve caused? And should states safeguard the climate for future...
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Trump’s Already Rewarding Fossil Fuel CEOs. That’s Not Good for Consumers or...
During his campaign, Donald Trump publicly promised to reward oil and gas executives handsomely in exchange for funding his campaign. Within weeks of winning the election, he’s making good on his...
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Political Chaos in France: Macron Refuses to Resign After Hand-Picked PM...
France has been plunged into political chaos after lawmakers from across the political spectrum voted to oust Prime Minister Michel Barnier in a no-confidence vote Wednesday, a major blow to President...
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Americans Hate Their Private Health Insurance
Americans are not happy with the US health care system. For the first time in two decades, a majority of Americans rate US health care as substandard, including a new high calling it “poor.” Nearly...
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How We Build Socialist Power (Literally)
In this Our Changing Climate climate change video essay, I dive into how we might be able to build out a socialist power grid. Specifically, the video examines the pitfalls of a capitalist market-based...
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Will Kurds Survive in the New Syria?
The twenty-first century’s worst humanitarian and military crisis has reached a historic turning point. This weekend, Syrians rejoiced after Bashar al-Assad was finally toppled in a shock reversal...
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Understanding the Rebellion in Syria
The rebellion in Syria has taken the world by surprise and led to the fall of the Assad family dictatorship, which has ruled Syria since Bashar al-Assad’s father, Hafez, took power in a coup d’etat 54...
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Democracy Doesn’t End on Election Day
Earlier this year, the Pew Research Center reported that a majority of Americans felt worn out by political coverage. That’s a feeling we can all understand. With a deeply divisive election behind us...
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US Socialists: ‘Trump’s election shows the far right has been better at...
Following Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 United States Presidential election, Jacob Andrewartha from LINKS International Journal of Socialist Renewal spoke with Cyn Huang and Daniil Sapunkov from...
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North Carolina Town Sues Duke Energy for Climate ‘Deception’
A small town in North Carolina has taken a bold step, filing the first climate “deception” lawsuit against an electric utility in the United States. In a civil lawsuit, the Town Council of Carrboro...
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Unions Brace Themselves as Trump Prepares to Defang Labor Board
In November, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) sided with Amazon workers in ruling that it is illegal to force workers to attend mandatory anti-union propaganda sessions, upending a doctrine of...
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Nature Based Solution Carbon Myopia
Recently, The Guardian featured an interesting article by Tess McClure about the fate of abandoned landscapes, with a special focus on Bulgaria: The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world...
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Bipartisan Plan to “Reform” Energy Permits Is a Brazen Giveaway to Fossil Fuels
This summer, a bipartisan bill sponsored by Senators Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia) and John Barrasso (R-Wyoming) to expedite the permitting of energy infrastructure cleared the Senate Energy and...
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Resisting Bukele’s Iron Fist
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele had a huge (though controversial) electoral victory in February 2024. But a small, stubborn legal movement is challenging his popular, indiscriminate war against...
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South Korea: In Face of Million-Strong Protest, Ruling Party Sabotages Yoon’s...
Despite his failed December 3 self-coup, President Yoon Suk-yeol remains in his post after MPs from the conservative ruling People Power Party (PPP) boycotted a impeachment vote on December 7. This was...
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The Fascist Threat Becomes Clearer With Milei’s Call for a Brown International
“It is our moral duty to defend the legacy of our western civilisation. The West is in danger…We must stand together, establishing channels of cooperation throughout the world. We could call ourselves...
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