A hilarious chart - AI could take us to heaven, keep us in purgatory, or pitch us into hell.

Charlie Kimber on the implications of Mamdani’s victory for the left in Britain socialistworker.co.uk/news/what-ar...

A useful critique of Jeff Bezos’s claim that the AI bubble is a good ‘industrial bubble’. on.ft.com/4qLuzdo Are bubbles good, actually?

How the Fed is quietly financing the deficit by printing money. on.ft.com/485k0JR Why the Fed’s balance sheet may grow again

Not sure how many Cheney obits will mention this murderous legacy of his.

Funny how 'left leaning'and 'left-wing' individuals are often added as monikers to those interviewed by the @BBC - but there are no 'right leaning'or 'right-wing' labels attributed to, eg Richard Tice of Reform.

Dick Cheney passing on the same day as a Muslim socialist wins NYC is definitely evidence of a higher power.

‘Bond investors globally still look back in horror on what is widely known as the “Liz Truss moment” and no sane politician would want to repeat it. The long shadow of that bruising episode acts as a major constraint on what governments everywhere are willing to risk with … 1/

So @nytimes.com Mamdani did get the 50% you demanded.

New gift link (previous one expired). Comments have been disabled, which demonstrates my point.. on.ft.com/47oS8kI

They’re still pushing this line.

RIP, he’s shooting lawyers in heaven now

May the ghosts of the one million Iraqis he slaughtered mock and curse him before casting him into eternal torment in hell. May his wife and Liz hear it all. May his agony haunt their dreams. #CheneyDead

So farewell then Dick Cheney - you were a major architect of the disasters of our time. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

Very interesting analysis by @cnmnguyen.bsky.social of Vietnam caught between China and the US and of internal political trends, including Gaza solidarity among the young. positionspolitics.org/chelsea-ngoc...

Michael Roberts, Debt and the cockroaches. thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/d...

“what was achieved in Busan was a temporary, unstable equilibrium in the inter-imperialist contest that is dominating the 21st century.”

My latest column, on China’s emergence as ‘peer rival’ to the US. socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...

That's sad news. I loved his book on Britain's Empire and his history of Cuba.

Two obituaries of Richard Gott, who’s just died, by his friends Tariq Ali and John Gittings.

Such a good piece, and vitally important.

on.ft.com/4oi42mf How a warmer world is making pregnancy riskier

I know Mark Mazower mainly as an outstanding historian of modern Greece. But I can’t recommend his new book Antisemitism enough. It displays critical historical intelligence dismantling the modern discourse of antisemitism, tracing its origins in the reaction to 18-19thC … 1/

Good coverage by the Guardian of the Mountbatten Windsor scandal. Very clear that he’s been thrown overboard in a typical piece of royal ruthlessness designed to save the Firm.

Oh-Oh:

@zarahsultana.bsky.social gives a great account of herself interrogated by the awful Nick Robinson www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

China en marcha hacia la superioridad militar @alexcallinicos.bsky.social, destacado intelectual marxista y militante de nuestra organización hermana en GB, analiza el choque imperialista entre EEUU y #China. #NiWashingtonNiMoscú marx21.net/2025/10/30/c...

Putin’s ‘Africa Corps’ isn’t stopping the advance of the Islamists in Mali. on.ft.com/3JctJ8L Jihadis encircle Mali’s capital as they close in on power

My take on ‘One Battle after Another’ www.facebook.com/share/p/17Y8...

Excellent piece by @alexcallinicos.bsky.social on Michael Kidron, the Permanent Arms Economy, its contemporary relevance and some recent debates on the left. isj.org.uk/kidron-polit...

The second of two excellent @financialtimes.com assessments of Trump’s latest presidency - after @edwardluce.bsky.social on domestic policy, now @gideonrachman.bsky.social on global policy. www.ft.com/content/28f0... The Trump doctrine: don’t rely on America

Newington Green

Good piece on South-East Asia, manoeuvring between China and the US. on.ft.com/4hrrD1a Will Trump push south-east Asia towards China?

My latest column, on Trump’s drive against Venezuela. socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...

Nice review of Tariq Ali’s memoirs by Paul Buhle.

Built by enslaved Africans

Dr Robert Bohan “My president-elect Catherine Connolly. She’s got a landslide, knocking the right into the shadows & showing up the petulance & ignorance of far right clowns & Ultra-Catholic theocrat’s ‘spoil the vote’ campaign. Ireland remains one of the few liberal democracies to reject fascism”

The Partido Obrero’s newly elected deputy Romina Del Pla reacts to Milei’s victory in Argentina’s mid-term elections prensaobrera.com/politicas/se...

A great discussion of Zeno and his paradoxes. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

US treasury secretary Scott Bessent has been criticised for a multibillion-dollar US rescue package for Argentina and making the Treasury more partisan. But so far he's managed to straddle the 'line between appeasing Trump and appeasing the markets' on.ft.com/3LrCex8

Good luck to the Workers Left Front-Unity (FIT-U) in today’s mid-term elections in Argentina - Milei Out!

Catherine Connolly’s Win is a Historic Victory for the Left – Let’s Build On It rebelnews.ie/2025/10/25/c...

My article on Michael Kidron, theorist of the permanent arms economy, in the latest issue of International Socialism. isj.org.uk/kidron-polit...