The SPD has won (narrowly) because it gained the votes of many on the left. These voters will expect some changes: more and better public services; taxes on the rich; higher wages.
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The profits of war: How corporate America cashed in on the post-9/11 Pentagon spending surge
The costs and consequences of America’s twenty-first-century wars have by now been well-documented — a staggering $8 trillion in expenditures and more than 380,000 civilian deaths, as calculated by Brown University’s Costs of War project.
It’s time to fight for abortion rights
Those who suffer the most from all these abortion restrictions are young and poor. The parental consent requirement puts the fate of pregnant teens in the hands of a parent who may be abusive, unsympathetic to their plight, or simply reactionary.
The US lost in Afghanistan. But US imperialism isn’t going anywhere.
The antiwar movement should be under no illusion that the era of US imperialist warfare has come to an end with the US withdrawal from Afghanistan.
‘Infuriating disappointment’: Biden DHS ramping up deportations to Haiti
Still under fire from human rights advocates after appealing a court order to stop using the Covid-19 pandemic as justification for expelling asylum-seeking families, the Biden administration on Saturday confirmed that it is ramping up deportations to Haiti and elsewhere.
China and common prosperity
Xi’s crackdown on the billionaires and his call for reduced inequality is yet another zig in the zig-zag policy direction of the Chinese bureaucratic elite…
Brazil: Fascist apotheosis
Bolsonaro is making it clear for the fraction of the ruling class that has gone over to the opposition in the last forty days that he will not accept the result of the elections if he loses. He will not respect the rules of the liberal-democratic regime…
Doctor’s prescription: Less snacks, more strikes!
Today, a strike is taking place at the maker of products that everyone in the country knows. No more Oreos, Ritz Crackers, or Chips Ahoy! Nabisco’s on strike.
The empire has no clothes
The U.S.’ longest war in history—spanning four presidential terms, two Republican and two Democratic—finally ended on August 30th, having accomplished none of its goals and leaving Afghanistan’s population of nearly 40 million people, if anything, worse off than when it began.
Greece after the wildfires
The account of this disastrous August, when temperatures and drought reached record-high levels even for a warm and dry country like Greece, is literally tragic…
Media rediscover Afghan women only when US leaves
Just as US corporate news media “discovered” Afghan women’s rights only when the US was angling for invasion, their since-forgotten interest returned with a vengeance as US troops exited the country.
The relative decline of US imperialism
The underlying relative decline in US manufacturing and even services competitiveness with first Europe, then Japan and East Asia and now China, has gradually worn away the strength of the US dollar against other currencies as the supply of dollars outstrips demand internationally.
Using women’s rights to sell Washington’s war
In the weeks after the victory of the U.S. in Kabul, Afghanistan, media outlets featured the smiling faces of Afghan women lifting their veils, crediting the U.S. with their “liberation.” Confused liberals joined the war chorus.
Doctors Without Borders to Pfizer: Share vaccine recipe with the world
According to Doctors Without Borders—known globally as Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)—”at least seven manufacturers in African countries currently meet the prerequisites to produce mRNA vaccines, if all necessary technology and training were openly shared.”
The rehabilitation of colonialism
Here we reprint an article from the International Socialist Review in January 2002, shortly after the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan began.
