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To understand the global appeal of the far right, look to Brazil, where Bolsonarismo has capitalized on social disintegration to cement brute exploitation as the dominant social logic.

The economist Hyman Minsky died 30 years ago today. Best known for his theory of financial instability, Minsky developed a view of capitalism and its mutations that was far more radical than many of those who cite his work appreciate.

From the Party of Greens of Ukraine: Dear Green friends, The Party of Greens of Ukraine has issued a statement in response to recent remarks by Australian Greens Senator David Shoebridge on military aid to Ukraine. We would like to share our position with our European Green colleagues and ask for your solidarity and support. … Continue reading “Only victory over the aggressor can restore lasting peace” – Ukrainian Green Party’s letter to Australian Green Party

Rather than slink back from its globally condemned genocidal conduct over the past three years, Israel is actually ratcheting up its psychotically bloody and illegal conduct right now.

From our collaborating partner Living on Earth, public radio’s environmental news magazine, an interview by Paloma Beltran with Tzeporah Berman, the founder of the Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative. As the United Nations gears up for the COP31 climate session in mid-November, nearly three decades after the Kyoto Protocol, there’s a newer set of international […]

A few days before Christmas in 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency received a complaint through its National Response Center: “There has been a horrible smell in the air for almost a week,” the caller said, according to state records. “It’s so bad it’s making people throw up.” The caller thought the odor was emanating […]

Climate pollutant concentrations in the Beijing region of northern China have plateaued or begun to decline—except for the world’s most potent greenhouse gas, new research concludes. The findings, published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, suggest a decades-long effort to clean Beijing’s air is beginning to pay off. But while it cites progress, the […]

«La revolución “transcrece” de la lucha por reivindicaciones nacionales y democráticas en revolución socialista, sin ninguna interrupción de la continuidad.»

Nos reuniremos virtualmente (a través de Zoom) para diseñar estrategias sobre cómo podemos usar individualmente el poder de nuestras cuentas de redes sociales (a través de Facebook, X, Threads, Linkedin, […]

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La Via Campesina expresses unwavering solidarity with the peasants and working people in Myanmar and their revolution against the military dictatorship and their resistance against capitalist exploitation

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The editor-in-chief of Russian-language news site Meduza tells Anne Schumacher about Putin's objectives and circumventing censorship

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LabourStart headline - Source: IFJ

LabourStart headline - Source: The Nordic Labour Journal

Thomas Frank on the middle class’s most cherished idea, creativity, and how it became the cover story for the plutocracy that replaced it.

Ok but *why* do all voters, including Republican voters, disapprove of election disruption and denial?

[This article was written in advance of the November 2026 elections, but the print edition will reach Against the Current readers after the election in our November-December issue. — The ATC editors] MUCH OF THIS article will focus on the Democratic Socialists of America and an analysis of DSA’s electoral perspectives and results going into… Continue reading The Rise of Democratic Socialists: Democratic Discontent

CALERA, Ala.—Fenn Church knew what he had to do.  “I’m going to stand in front of that gate and say, ‘This is my home, and I’m not letting you drive through that gate,’” Church said on Thursday morning. “And then if they want to arrest me, they can handcuff me and take me to jail […]

Boeing has almost completed the demolition of five buildings at its infamous Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Southern California, even as concerns mount among nearby families about potential health harms. The buildings at the former Rocketdyne facility—where one of the worst nuclear meltdowns in U.S. history took place in 1959—were once used for Cold War-era […]

The Milwaukee Brewers are in the World Series for the first time since 1982. The small-market team’s success this season is a reminder of Milwaukee baseball’s progressive heritage and the city’s proud socialist history.

Nearly all observers agree that Alabama’s new data center policies released this week are an improvement over the state’s old rules, which treat massive, power-hungry data centers like any other large industrial operation.  But several groups say the new rules for contracts between the data centers and Alabama Power, the state’s largest electric utility, don’t […]