For those on the left who are not socialists, or who do not ally with socialist parties, I don't really understand: what exactly is the project? What is the plan?

Horrifying reports have emerged that the RSF militia in has brutally massacred more than a thousand people in el-Fasher, Sudan. The RSF is fighting against the government of Sudan and is backed by the UAE.

An important corrective to US propaganda, from a former minister in the government of Ecuador: "US warships off Venezuela aren't there to fight drugs" www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

"As lungs need air, so the U.S. economy needs Latin American minerals." —Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America

BREAKING 🇨🇺🇺🇳 With 165 countries in favour, the United Nations has voted to condemn the US blockade of Cuba for the 33rd time — despite an unprecedented campaign by the State Department to stop them.

You honestly cannot make this up. The level of impunity, the total disregard for international norms, is just staggering.

This article, on how Israel used drones to massacre children in Gaza while they were drinking tea, is more than 16 years old.

New research on 42 countries around the world shows that in most cases people generally do not believe the system they live under is fair. With one exception: China. I wrote a summary of this study and its methodology on Substack, which I'm posting in the reply.

The attempts by Western institutions to normalise Israel since the ceasefire are disgusting and absurd. First, Israel has not stopped killing Palestinians, and by all accounts is eager to do more of it.

What we must all remember from the Gaza genocide is that the international system is rotten to its core and needs to be completely replaced. We cannot accept a system where Western governments and leaders can commit genocide and war crimes with total impunity.

Today is a good day to remind everyone that the US narrative claiming the President of Venezuela is a drug trafficker is 100% lies. The Trump administration knows this, the Nobel committee knows this... it is a campaign to manufacture consent for invasion. Don't fall for it.

It is clear that with this ceasefire Western governments and media want us all to let bygones be bygones. Never. Israel committed a genocide, we all witnessed the most obscene violence it is possible to imagine, and we need to see the perpetrators locked up in The Hague.

Here's @drguddisingh.bsky.social in the final episode of this series on the social determinants of child health in Britain. And for health professionals, don't miss Whamproject, which organizes to address these problems. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

38 years ago, Thomas Sankara, the revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso, was assassinated in a French-backed coup. He aspired to a fair and just society, and an economy built on self-sufficiency, ecological regeneration, and freedom from Western domination.

My brief address at the Spanish Parliament last week, on how capitalism is driving the polycrisis, and how we can begin to align production with democratically ratified objectives. (Part 2 below)

My friend David Adler, a Jewish-American who was on the flotilla and was kidnapped by the Zionist regime, is detained illegally in an Israeli prison and no one has had contact with him for four days. Shamefully, the US government has done nothing to help him.

Check out this new BBC series exploring the social and political determinants of child health in the UK... where 4.5 million children live in poverty in one of the "richest" countries in the world. With the brilliant @drguddisingh.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This new study in Nature provides a comprehensive update to the "doughnut" framework.

I have been informed that the Spanish government recently considered pursuing a public job guarantee but decided against it, on the grounds that the unemployment rate has been declining and is now "only" 10%.

You are not seeing this slaughter live-streamed to your devices because Israel has murdered most of Gaza’s most prominent journalists in targeted assassinations.

Full solidarity with the flotilla, which represents the very best of humanity. And eternal shame to the European states who refused to protect it from Israeli assault and establish a corridor for aid to Gaza.

On the 1st of October 1965, the US collaborated in initiating a coup against Sukarno, the first president of independent Indonesia. The coup-makers installed a brutal right-wing dictatorship that systematically exterminated up to one million people with the direct support of the CIA.

New research shows that ocean acidification has now crossed the planetary boundary. That's 7 of 9 boundaries crossed. Capitalism is driving ecological catastrophe and will continue to do so until we align production to a new law of value. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Spain has implemented an arms embargo against Israel, showing how it’s done. Every other state that does not follow suit, and which continues to supply arms to the Zionists, must be understood as not only complicit but a partner in the genocide.

Absolutely wild. Israel targeted and massacred 31 journalists and media staff in Yemen. The second-deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded. The Israeli regime is built on war crimes.

I joined the ReturnToBandung podcast to talk about capitalism, imperialism and global inequality... listen here or wherever you get your podcasts: open.spotify.com/episode/4tI4...

China's progress on renewable energy is breathtaking. In the first half of this year they installed more than twice as much solar as the rest of the world *combined*. This is what you can achieve when you can plan production around social objectives.

New research published in The Lancet finds that Western unilateral sanctions have caused 38 million deaths since 1970. The average death toll ranges from 400,000 to over 1 million per year. Staggering levels of violence. This system is intolerable and must be replaced.

Update: The death toll of Yemeni journalists and media workers killed in Israeli airstrikes on September 10, 2025, has reportedly risen to 30.

On September 11th 1973, Salvador Allende, the progressive, democratically elected leader of Chile, was attacked and deposed in a US-backed coup that installed the right-wing dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

This paper shows that US sanctions against Venezuela killed more than 40,000 people in the first year, 2017-2018. The authors argue that the sanctions violate the Geneva and Hague conventions against collective punishment of civilian populations.

We have this new paper, led by Meghna Goyal, which provides the first global view of inequality in the agri-food system. We find that agricultural production has increasingly shifted to the South, but income is increasingly captured in the North. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Over the past few months, BlackRock and other major investment firms have abandoned their commitments to green investments, saying explicitly that it's not profitable enough. Yes, renewables are cheap... but they are not nearly as profitable as fossil fuels.

Israel has bombed Qatar in an attempt to murder Gaza negotiators gathered for ceasefire talks, just days after bombing Yemen to murder the Prime Minister and cabinet in Sanaa, all while conducting a genocide. Obscene levels of violence. A terrorist regime in the fullest sense.

It's crucial to understand that what's bad about income inequality is not just that it enables elites to consume more; it enables them to *control production*. They decide how to use *our* labour and *our* resources, and shape *our* future. It is a dictatorship of the rich.

This is wonderful news, I have always wanted to see this happen. The US "department of defense" has never been primarily about defense; it is a euphemism for an institution that is mostly focused on wars of imperial aggression. At least now there is no pretending otherwise.

In this new piece I argue that the climate crisis cannot be solved within capitalism. I think we need to take this fact seriously and consider what it means for the climate movement. Link in the reply.

NEW: Western sanctions imposed on the global South have killed 38 million people since 1970. "We cannot accept a world where half a million people are killed each year to prop up Western hegemony. This system must be dismantled and replaced." www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

I joined Aaron Bastani for this wide-ranging discussion on capitalism, imperialism, ecological crisis and what the future may hold. Have a look and see what you think --> www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjlq...

"We unequivocally condemn the escalation of US military aggression against Venezuela, and call on all progressive forces to stand against US intervention and the emboldened Monroe Doctrine behind it."

Israel bombed and murdered the Prime Minister of Yemen along with several cabinet members, and there is zero outrage in Western media… it’s barely even a story. The level of impunity is breathtaking.

“6.3 million people are now skipping meals”. What the IMF is doing to Sri Lanka is actually barbarism. www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Is ‘green growth’ just a convenient lie? @jasonhickel.bsky.social joins us on EQUALS to explain why rich countries can’t grow their way out of climate collapse and why justice means rethinking growth. Listen here 👉: www.equals.ink/p/is-green-g... #Degrowth #ClimateJustice”

We have to understand structural adjustment, with its forced privatisation and dismantling of public provisioning systems across the South, as mass-scale dispossession and a transfer of wealth from the world’s working classes directly into the hands of international capital.

It is wild that the US and European governments that most vocally claim to support press freedom are openly supporting, arming and funding a proxy regime that targets and murders journalists *as a matter of policy*.

Israel is not an "ally" of the US. It is a proxy force. It is used to attack popular liberation movements across West Asia—and elsewhere in the global South—to prevent sovereign development and thus maintain the conditions for US capital accumulation.

Imperialism and racism are central to the capitalist world economy. The barbarism is a feature, not a bug.

This is the end of western liberalism. You can't support an openly declared final solution and continue trading on the same old lines about human rights, equality and justice. Gaza has driven a stake through the dank, rotten heart of liberal ideology. My latest open.substack.com/pub/donotpan...

Amid international outrage, Israel is now claiming the double-tap strike on Nasser hospital was an accident—after celebrating it in Hebrew media. Drunk on their own impunity they take us all for fools. They mock humanity itself. Hell is not hot enough for these monsters.

China spends 95% less than the US on healthcare per capita, but has a healthy life expectancy that is *4 years longer*.