Category: Thinking Politically

Nate Bear examines the 2026 FIFA World Cup through the lens of visa denials, travel restrictions and security practices affecting teams, officials, journalists and supporters from several countries. The article argues that these measures, along with what the author sees as inconsistent international scrutiny of host nations, expose deeper patterns of racism, double standards and…

As the Latin American continent faces a new wave of reactionary counteroffensive, Bolivia is emerging as the epicenter of a relentless class struggle, where the logic of transnational capital seeks to subjugate the sovereignty of a nation that has dared to rebuild itself on plurinational foundations. For over a month, the country has been rocked…

Colombia is approaching the most important election on the continent—and possibly on the planet. Not because Bogotá will decide merely the administrative fate of a peripheral state, but because something far more profound is at stake in Colombia: the possibility that Latin America will continue and deepen the historic rupture that began with Gustavo Petro’s…

Internal fights with the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) over “cancel culture,” “political correctness” and “call-out culture” are not side dramas. They are symptoms of a deeper organisational sickness: the inability of a would-be mass socialist organisation to distinguish political discipline from moral punishment, comradely correction from public shaming, and class struggle from subcultural boundary…

Former Bolivian President Evo Morales Ayma declared that the protests shaking Bolivia for the past month represent a popular rebellion against neoliberalism and a government that subordinates itself to the United States.

To any reasonable person, a ceasefire is exactly what it sounds like: It is the total cessation of military attacks to end a war. But to the mainstream American media outlets covering the U.S.–Israel war with Iran, what constitutes a “ceasefire” is a rhetorical exercise.

Israeli soldiers went door to door in the border village of Ain Arab, forcing residents from their homes at gunpoint as part of a systematic campaign to empty large swathes of southern Lebanon.

Ralph Nader examines the Trump administration’s deep cuts to USAID under Donald Trump and Elon Musk, arguing that the withdrawal of humanitarian aid has accelerated preventable deaths among children and vulnerable communities across the Global South. Drawing on reporting by Nicholas Kristof and medical research, the article links reductions in health and food assistance to…

At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the U.S. to the Israeli military more than ever before. Buried in the House’s version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) released on Tuesday, is section 224, entitled “United States-Israel Defense Technology…

To grasp the durability of the Bolivarian Revolution just four months after the kidnapping of President Maduro and the attack on the country, it is not enough to look at the state, leadership, or even economic policy, although we should not forgo the analysis on that terrain. One also has to examine a different terrain:…