Reform is a slogan, not an activity Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” By Guallendra – Own work, CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=200809764 Last week, we looked at the grip that the western Professional and [...]
French school students explain why they are organising blockades of their schools and the brutality they have faced from the French police. Cross-posted from Counterfire Picture by Wyslijp16 Below are speeches made at an international [...]
The notion that a two-state solution is the ‘viable’ option completely ignores the present and history of Israeli politics. David Hearst is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Middle East Eye. He is a commentator and speaker [...]
Review of Sven Beckert’s ‘Capitalism: A Global History’, which takes an unconventional view of how capitalism came about and what it actually is. Cynthia Kaufman is a writer and educator. She is the author of [...]
Bolsonaro Jr. won the first round, and there is not many reasons to believe he won’t win the second round on 25 October as well. Mike Elk is the senior labor reporter at Payday Report [...]
The US agreement with Denmark gives the super-power enormous control over Greenland’s critical mineral resources. Joshua Frank is co-editor of CounterPunch and co-host of CounterPunch Radio. He is the author of Atomic Days: The Untold Story of [...]
The eruption of a mass housing movement in the past 10 days has put social class back on the agenda of Spanish politics and completely altered the dimensions of a high stakes General Election on [...]
The US strategy to convince Iran to surrender John Mearsheimer is a political scientist and international relations scholar and professor at the University of Chicago Cross-posted from John Mearsheimer’s Substack The Trump administration and its [...]
Book Review by Mathew D. Rose With the exception of the Epstein Class and the Professional and Managerial Caste in Britain there is now a broad consensus that neo-liberalism has failed the nation. It has [...]