January 19th, 2026
The Iranian People Experience an Unprecedented Bloodbath from the Theocratic Regime, Amid Imperialist and Dynastic Machinations
Iran at a crossroads as masses rise up amid regime massacres and reactionary machinations from abroad — Editors
January 04th, 2026
Trumpist Fascism: The Worm Turns
For those who lived through Richard Nixon’s lurch toward authoritarian rule, the period after his reelection in a landslide in November 1972 was frightening. (And it was a real landslide, with 60 percent of the vote.) Nixon soon launched a brutal “Christmas” bombing of Vietnam and prepared further revenge against his “enemies list” at home. […]
December 28th, 2025
Marx on Communal Villages as Loci of Revolution, in 19th C. Russia & Beyond
Two years before his 1879–82 notebooks on communal social forms around the world, Marx begins to see an uprising in Russia as the most likely starting point for a wider European revolution. For example, in remarks on the Russo-Turkish War (the “oriental crisis”) in a letter of September 27, 1877, to the New Jersey communist […]
November 23rd, 2025
Trump’s “Peace” in the Middle East, A Retrocolonialism Built on Sand
The consequences of the Gaza war and the future, a preliminary assessment –Editors
June 24th, 2025
Trump’s Surprise Attack on Iran Deepens US Imperial Entanglements
The US’s June 22 surprise attack on Iranian nuclear facilities constitutes the first use of a new generation of “bunker-buster” bombs, dropped from B2 stealth bombers. According to an AP report of June 22, “The roughly 30,000 pound precision-guided bomb is designed to attack deeply buried and hardened bunkers and tunnels, according to the U.S. […]
June 16th, 2025
Oppose Apartheid Israel’s Attack on Iran!
Israel’s June 13 attack on Iran, beginning at 3:00 AM local time, was a reckless, barbarous act that threatens to set the entire region aflame. Some 200 Israeli planes, as well as missiles and drones, bombarded the country, destroying military bases and nuclear infrastructure, the avowed aim of the attacks. Israel also assassinated, apparently in […]
April 03rd, 2025
Israel Resumes Genocidal Campaign in Gaza
Death Toll Surpasses 50,000 and Repression Escalates Against Solidarity Movement After seven weeks of a ceasefire, Israel suddenly resumed its genocidal bombing campaign on March 18. In surprise air attacks in the middle of the night, it killed at least 400 Palestinians. In the ensuing days, the official Palestinian death toll since October 2023 reached […]
February 16th, 2025
The Trumpist Coup, Fascism U.S.-Style in an Era of Capitalist Decline, and Some Loci of Resistance
What We Are Facing in Winter 2025 In a veritable blitzkrieg, the Trumpist fascists have changed U.S. and global society irrevocably in a matter of weeks. They have already carried out the following, without any real chance of reversal in the courts or Congress in the immediate future, as these actions seem to lie within the […]
January 29th, 2025
After the Fall: Hope Amid the Ruins of Post-Assad Syria
A few weeks after the epochal fall of the Assad dictatorship, Syria remains in flux. It could not be otherwise after 53 years of the strangulation of civil and political life under one of the world’s most murderous regimes. Nonetheless, some broad outlines of where Syria is going can be discerned. But before entering into […]
January 09th, 2025
Marx on Communal Villages as Loci of Revolution, in 19th C. Russia & Beyond
Two years before his 1879–82 notebooks on communal social forms around the world, Marx begins to see an uprising in Russia as the most likely starting point for a wider European revolution. For example, in remarks on the Russo-Turkish War (the “oriental crisis”) in a letter of September 27, 1877, to the New Jersey communist […]