Month: January 2026
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Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crisis
This is a lightly-edited extract from Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crisis by Nick-Dyer Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni, published by Verso Books. The book’s Preface – “A Spectre … Keep reading »
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Social Strikes: Confronting ICE and Resisting Authoritarianism
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under siege, and dissent is increasingly met with repression … Keep reading »
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Why “Bubble Zones” Are a Toxic Threat to Democracy: Hasbara cedes to Shtika; a Backgrounder
Over the past several years, a new method of bulldozing civil rights in Canada has emerged from the playbooks of die-hard Israel-supporting organizations. It is called “bubble zones.” A bubble … Keep reading »
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Supporting the Iranian People’s Struggle for Their Rights: Moving Toward Real Freedom and Equality, Not a Return to the Past
Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company Popular protests and strikes in cities across the country have now entered their eleventh day. Despite an increasingly securitized atmosphere, the … Keep reading »
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Enforcement Regime: Immigration hardliners in the US state
On September 30, hundreds of federal law enforcement officers raided a 130-unit apartment complex in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood. After rappelling from a Black Hawk helicopter, rifle-wielding agents hurled stun … Keep reading »
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The Attack on Venezuela: The Return of Spheres of Interest?
The oil tanker hijackings, the US invasion of Venezuela, and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Adela Flores, violate many laws. These include the UN Charter, … Keep reading »
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Two Statements from South Africa on the Challenges for Socialists
Another World Is Not Only Possible — It Is Necessary and Urgent We enter a new year in a time of deep crisis and danger. In South Africa, the state under … Keep reading »
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Free Speech and Its Enemies
“We are just so shocked,” a German friend residing in Switzerland wrote the other day. “These cases affect us very much, as they will have consequences for us all.” What … Keep reading »
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Higher Education in the Time of Fascist Plague
The horrors of fascism have returned, not as ghosts, but as a plague, fueled by racial hatred and historical amnesia, infiltrating schools, universities, and the public sphere through state violence, … Keep reading »