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In 1906, US troops slaughtered up to 1,000 Moros at Bud Dajo in the southern Philippines, then called it a battle. Historian Kim Wagner explains how an empire can commit atrocities and how it teaches itself to forget them.

Some thoughts on programme in the wake of Your Party, by Ian Dolphin

We are facing a scenario where extractive activities and illicit economies converge with highly adaptive armed actors and with states that are weak, absent, corrupt, or violent against their own populations. The recipe is dangerous.

The post The False Security of the Amazonian Triple Border and the Challenge for the New Governments first appeared on Amazon Watch.

The Republican Party’s descent into chaos wasn’t Donald Trump’s doing. After successfully beating back the labor movement, the capitalist class became too disorganized to restrain the monster it created.

The Criterion Channel’s new Jonathan Demme retrospective is a chance to look beyond The Silence of the Lambs and rediscover one of America’s most adventurous, surprising, and charming filmmakers.

Originally published in New Politics’ summer 2026 issue Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?By: Gabriel RockhillMonthly Review Press, 2025 Gabriel Rockhill’s Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism? (or Pipers) is a neo-Stalinist hatchet job targeting the German intellectuals, most of them Jewish, who associated with the Frankfurt-based Institute for Social Research before, during, […]

Runaway production isn’t just costing Hollywood jobs. It’s severing the intergenerational chains along which film crafts are passed down, replacing an industry town’s living inheritance with a dislocated workforce that must always start from scratch.

Chevron and the Western States Petroleum Association lead top spending on lobbying  Sacramento, Calif. — As they made huge profits in the second quarter […]

The post Big Oil spends $17.1 million lobbying against climate policy in first half of 2026 appeared first on Last Chance Alliance.

By Amy Gray, Associate Climate Finance Director, Stand.earth   In 2022, more than a thousand Google employees signed a letter telling their own company something uncomfortable: the 401(k) plan wasn’t climate safe. Google’s default retirement option, the Vanguard Target Date Retirement Fund series, didn’t factor climate risk into its holdings at all. Workers organized. Google added […]

Before the votes had even been counted, some were treating last night’s Michigan result as a defeat for the Left. This is hard to square with the fact that well beyond Abdul El-Sayed’s win, progressives and socialists won major races.

Two University of California tech workers explain their unionization process — and how unions can help recapture the original promise of tech being used to better people’s lives rather than make the worst people in the world ever richer.

A day-long conference bringing together residents, advocates, community leaders, and public officials for discussion, training, and organizing to protect communities from dirty and dangerous data centers. BALTIMORE, MD – With a bipartisan wave of data center opposition sweeping Maryland, two top nonprofits today unveiled plans to host the first statewide conference aimed at confronting the […]

The post “People Over Data Centers” Maryland’s First Statewide Conference on Confronting the Data Center Crisis appeared first on Chesapeake Climate Action Network.

Nuclear weapons spending has risen to an all-time high

US police have long recruited military veterans with conditions that make them prone to violence and aggression. The problem is even worse when it comes to ICE, whose leaders valorize brutality and allow officers to kill with impunity.

People sometimes point to individual consumption to argue that the US is better off than Western Europe. But this comparison neglects how much more unequal the US is and how much more money we burn in our irrational private health care system.

It is a tough time to be in South Africa trying to keep the lights on. Across the country, households...

The post Changes to Our Power: What South Africa’s New Electricity Pricing Reforms Mean for Us appeared first on 350.

By the end of 2026 and the beginning of 2027, the Ukrainian people will once again face, for the fifth time, the terrible prospect of another winter at war Despite everything, the Ukrainian people continue to resist, both on the front line and on the home front. They continue to defend their sovereignty and their … Continue reading International Solidarity Convoy to Ukraine announced for November

The answer to union contracts being voted down is not for organizers to lower workers’ expectations. It’s to seize that vote as an opportunity to organize those expectations into collective power.

The 2026 Industrial Worker Summer issue is now available for download! Read or print it now at your leisure. This is a 5.5 by 8.5 inch booklet.

The short-term load demands that will be placed on the electrical grid over the next four years will be unprecedented. After several decades of near zero load demand growth, the system is about to see an energy shock akin to the oil crisis of the 1970s. Unprecedented Load Demand Growth In combination, the added load …

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