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Labour aims "to be the war-mongering party of the military-industrial complex": British Communists
Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer in July, 2024 -- Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street, OGL 3, via Wikimedia Commons Responding to the...
Michael Laxer
1 day ago1 min read
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South African Diplomat Called a 'Disgrace' by Marco Rubio, Returns Home a Hero
The Trump administration's ouster of South Africa's Ambassador to the U.S. Ebrahim Rasool was certainly meant to warn other countries...
Michael Laxer
4 days ago6 min read
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Trump 2.0: US Revivalism Driven by Tech Oligarchy
Trump purchases a Tesla at the White House, March 11, 2025 - public domain image By Bappa Sinha Trump 2.0 has had a tumultuous start....
Michael Laxer
Mar 204 min read
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British Communists condemn "Cold War lies" and social media misogyny
Starmer on the HMS Iron Duke off the coast of Estonia, December 2024 -- Number 10, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons “The first Cold War...
Michael Laxer
Mar 132 min read
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Europe Does Not Need a Domestic Trump Clone
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump Clash During Meeting, February 28, 2025 -- public domain image By...
Michael Laxer
Mar 34 min read
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A Cruel Hoax: The Political Economy of Anti-immigration
Deportation Flight to unknown "country of origin" from the United States by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on January 23,...
Michael Laxer
Feb 277 min read
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Trump Ally Milei Threatened With Impeachment Over Crypto Stunt
"Look where you brought us with your madness! You turned Argentina into a casino where the croupier is the president himself," one...
Michael Laxer
Feb 174 min read
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Understanding and countering Trump's politics of bullying with a politics of international solidarity
Musk and Trump clown show at the White House - public domain image By Simon Božič-Dougherty Trump is the US Empire unmasked. Few, if any,...
Michael Laxer
Feb 1710 min read
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Why US politicians keep blaming DEI for disasters, even when it's laughably untrue
At best, these false claims help politicians cover for corporate misdeeds. At worst, they foster division for its own sake. Neither makes...
Michael Laxer
Feb 73 min read
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President Trump’s first 24 hours
On day one of this presidency, Trump signed a flurry of executive orders. What are they, do they have staying power, and what do they...
Michael Laxer
Jan 275 min read
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Thousands take to the streets across the US to mark “counter-inauguration” on first day of Trump presidency
Mobilizations took place in over 80 cities on Martin Luther King Jr. Day to honor MLK’s legacy of struggle and mount movement against...
Michael Laxer
Jan 274 min read
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As oligarchs party at Trump inauguration, billionaire wealth grew by $5.7 billion a day in 2024
It is only going to get worse. Billionaire row at the Trump inauguration. As Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, and...
Michael Laxer
Jan 203 min read
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Capitalism’s Unequal Distribution Deprives You of True Freedom
By Richard D. Wolff As the French economist Thomas Piketty most recently exposed, capitalism, across time and space, has always tended to...
Michael Laxer
Aug 7, 20248 min read
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'Get Unionized or Get Out!': Scandinavian Labor Elevates Fight With Tesla's Elon Musk
"The mistake Tesla made was challenging the collective agreements that set sector-specific minimum wages in Sweden, a country where 70%...
Michael Laxer
Dec 22, 20233 min read
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Elon Musk’s Swedish Problem: Has the Anti-Union Billionaire Finally Met his Match?
For the first time in his life, the man who opposes any "lords and peasants sort of thing" may be learning a lesson in labor solidarity....
Michael Laxer
Dec 20, 20235 min read
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Danish Dockworkers Dial Up Pro-Union Pressure on Tesla With Solidarity Strike
"We have some labor market agreements in the Nordic region, and you have to comply with them if you want to run a business here," said...
Michael Laxer
Dec 6, 20233 min read
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Business freedom convoy delivers regressive politics
By Gabriel Haythornthwaite Less than two weeks after the cross-country “freedom convoy” took up a crusade to end government COVID...
Michael Laxer
Feb 8, 202210 min read
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