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by Layne Hartsell, Max Wilbert and Ntafakabirhi-Aganze Clovis

The article examines the growing global race for lithium in the Democratic Republic of Congo and its implications for local communities, ecosystems, and international politics. It traces how rising demand for batteries used in electric vehicles and energy storage is intensifying competition among major powers, including the United States, Europe, and China. The authors place the current mineral boom within the broader history of colonialism, conflict, and unequal exchange in the Congo, and argue that the pursuit of a so-called green transition risks deepening environmental destruction and social upheaval without fundamental changes in consumption and development models.

by Khwezi Mabasa

South Africa’s growing anti-migrant movement blames Black African migrants for unemployment, crime, and strained public services, despite limited evidence supporting these claims. Khwezi Mabasa argues that the country’s deep economic inequalities are rooted in decades of deindustrialization, labor market precarity, and policy choices rather than migration. Drawing on research and labor data, the article examines how migrants occupy a small share of the workforce and are often concentrated in insecure, low-paid jobs. It calls for evidence-based reforms aimed at expanding employment, strengthening labor protections, and addressing the structural causes of exclusion and inequality.

by Nirmal Gorana, Gig and Platform Service Workers Union

The Gig & Platform Service Workers Union (GIPSWU) argues that the new international convention on platform work falls short of workers’ demands for enforceable rights and accountability. While acknowledging issues such as unsafe work, algorithmic control, misclassification, and inadequate social protection, the union says the framework leaves too much to national laws and future implementation. It warns that exclusions, weak obligations, and reliance on ratification could limit its impact. GIPSWU calls for stronger national legislation, collective bargaining rights, wage protection, social security, data rights, and safeguards against arbitrary deactivation and termination.

by Claudio Katz

Claudio Katz assesses the newfound prominence in Argentine politics of Workers’ Left Front – Unity (FIT-U) MP Myriam Bregman, and outlines some of the debates on the left. Katz also examines Argentina’s political situation, its economic crisis and President Javier Milei’s declining support, within a regional framework marked by events in Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia.

by Hedelberto López Blanch

Fulton Armstrong, a former U.S. intelligence official, told the Spanish newspaper El Mundo that “Trump and Rubio are crafting a narrative tailored to their needs to justify an escalation against Cuba”

GEO Group, a top private prison contractor for ICE, is claiming immunity from lawsuits alleging forced labor at its detention centers. It’s using a controversial legal doctrine best known for shielding cops from police brutality claims.

Reactor revival will cost us time, money and possibly the planet

Karla Murthy’s new documentary film about her immigrant father’s tumultuous journey up and back down the class ladder turns the mythology of the American dream on its head. It’s a story many native-born Americans will find strikingly familiar.

Defenders of the private equity industry cast it as a bold force driving economic dynamism. But its record of destroying public services is no accident: private equity is essentially an elite project to profit from asset-stripping.

The argument was never the budget. It was always who fights.

The argument was never the budget. It was always who fights.

Whether we are campaigning for change from governments or major corporations, one piece of our theory of change remains constant — ensuring accountability through people power. Since our founding, Stand.earth has been organizing and supporting frontline leadership and grassroots actions that have moved governments and some of the world’s largest brands to make more responsible […]

A full recording of the event is available here. On June 14th, militant workers from across the country came together to stand in opposition to the prevailing trend in the labor movement: union structures which consistently side with the bosses and labor left reformism that channels workers’ frustrations into the dead ends of electoralism, the […]

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On June 14th, 2026, worker militants from across the United States came together in Chicago and online for “For a Fighting Workers Movement: A Militant Critique of Labor Notes,” an event bringing together class struggle formations from across the U.S. labor movement to draw a clear line between labor-left reformism and class unionism. Watch the […]

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Karl Marx dismissed speculation about a future socialist society as “writing recipes for the cookshops of the future.” A closer reading suggests he had a rich vision of the good life, based in the idea that people flourish by meeting each other’s needs.

Avi Lewis’s election to leadership of the NDP is a welcome development. But if the party wants to be a real vehicle for working-class politics, changes at the top are only part of the equation.

The current gerrymandering wars underscore fundamental problems with the United States’ electoral system. The Fair Representation Act, a bill to establish proportional representation in US House elections, offers a way out of this impasse.

Postscript: The pledge proposal will return in September

Postscript: The pledge proposal will return in September

What Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution meant to America’s revolutionaries.