Category: Labor / Economics

Rising gasoline prices may grab headlines, but Paul Krugman argues that’s only part of a much deeper economic shock. The real pain lies in surging diesel, jet fuel, fertilizer, and petrochemical costs—quietly driving up prices across the entire economy. As supply chains strain and production costs climb, consumers will feel the impact in everything from…

As the first of its profiles of leftist organizations from the postsocialist world, Red Threads is delighted to publish Burcu Ayan’s interview with the Bulgarian left feminist organization LevFem.

There were tearful scenes in the central American nation of Honduras on February 23, as locals said goodbye to the Cuban healthcare professionals who had been treating them for free for around two years. It came after the Honduran government abruptly ended the Cuban medical mission under pressure from the administration of the US president,…

Amid war, sanctions, and deepening economic crisis, Iran’s working class stands at the center of a historic confrontation. Rodney D. Green traces how decades of imperialist intervention, clerical domination, and capitalist restructuring have produced mass poverty, repression, and revolt. From oil workers to teachers, coordinated protests reveal a society pushed to the brink. Yet the…

A vast and deep-seated cognitive war is being waged by major U.S. and Western information technology (IT) and communication technology (ICT) companies to change minds and distort events in order to portray the oppressors of the people as the good guys and the oppressed as the guilty ones. At the same time, they carry out…

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind A.I. training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

The morning of my departure from José Martí Airport, named after the father of the nation, I hugged everybody: the woman who checked me in, the man who stamped my passport, the ground staff. I had hugged all my friends tightly the previous day, my tears fighting for the right to stream down my face.…

The International Labour Organisation’s Employment and Social Trends 2026 report paints a stark picture of the conditions facing most of the world’s workers.

Across the world, cities are being remade in the image of global capital. Once messy, vibrant spaces of community, culture and spontaneous life are being sanitised, monitored and packaged for tourism, investment and corporate profit. From the transformation of Amsterdam’s countercultural streets to the rise of “smart cities” driven by surveillance, data extraction and digital…

Cuba’s destruction is the price it must pay for thumbing its nose at the US behemoth. That’s why the left must do all we can to defend Cuba.