Two members of the European Union’s Election Observer Mission visited The Deltagram  yesterday to seek the newspaper’s assessment of Bangladesh’s 13th general election. The delegation included Karin Bergquist and Žiga Š...

It was a privilege to sit and stand, to chant and dance a bit. To savour the moment and enjoy vegan chocolates outside the Royal Courts of Justice – the High Court in London yesterday [Friday 13 February]. To celebrate ...

A quarter of the way through this century, there is no doubt that the USA and the world are in deep trouble. This is true for everyone, even the families of those most responsible for this state of affairs, the “Epstein...

Some wars brutalise, and others erase. Gaza has been erased for the past 3 years. In the crowded, coastal strip of just 140 square kilometres, the detonation of a 2,000-pound MK-84 bomb does more than level concrete, le...

Although the United Nations was created in 1945 with the goal of ending war and solving other global problems, in many cases the international organization has been unable to fulfill its mission. Since that time, wars h...

By mid-February 2026, and after nationwide strikes, Germany’s public service trade union, Ver.di, announced the end of the strikes. Germany’s public sector workers will receive more money. After three rounds of collecti...

“The lessons of the International Socialists can help point us in the right direction by sharing what has worked and what has failed in past decades” –Andrew Stone Higgins Some young radicals are still pondering how the...

Look around. Day to day, steadily more Americans understand that we have to get Beyond Donald. It isn’t a done deal though it is getting there. But then what?  “Don’t muddy the waters with such a question,” some would r...

We have an urgent responsibility. Our existing economic system is incapable of addressing the social and ecological crises we face in the 21st century. When we look around we see an extraordinary paradox. On the one han...

Whatever happened to the “polycrisis”? A couple of years ago it was the buzzword of the world, describing a concatenation of interacting crises that aggravated each other and made solutions appear impossible. In the yea...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto says Jakarta is ready to send up to 8,000 troops to Gaza. Another 18,000 are trained and on standby. He first made the pledge at the United Nations General Assembly in September 202...

Whatever happened to the “polycrisis”? A couple of years ago it was the buzzword of the world, describing a concatenation of interacting crises that aggravated each other and made solutions appear impossible. In the yea...

The Anti-Corruption Campaign China’s purge of Gen. Zhang Youxia, long considered a confidante of Xi Jinping and a vice-chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission (CMC), and General Liu Zhenli, has set off a wi...

For decades the Nordic welfare states have been held up as global exemplars of gender equality and expansive public care systems. Yet beneath this image of egalitarian modernity, cracks have begun to widen. Across Europ...

The trajectory of the Trump administration’s Iran policy has undergone a profound recalibration since the beginning of 2026, transitioning from expectations of imminent regime collapse to the fraught terrain of nuclear ...

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) won a sweeping victory in the 12 February 2026 elections, securing 212 of 300 parliamentary seats. This victory represents not merely a change of government. It is the culmination ...

Today, a quiet transformation is advancing in the West Bank. It isn’t the same spectacular form of violence that once commanded the global news cycle in Gaza, but it is more methodical and durable — and more difficult t...

The world is witnessing yet another manufactured humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in plain sight in Cuba. This crisis is not the result of any internal collapse or mismanagement. It is the deliberate outcome of United...

The constant insistence of the US discourse on the war on drugs seems to reflect a moral crusade by successive US administrations to rid their country of drug use. However, the truth is far removed from this simplistic ...

The march of the Ultra-Right in the Global South continues on, but unlike their Global North counterparts like Trump, Le Penn & Farage, as bleak as the future may seem, there are green shoots amongst the concrete. On 8 ...

Washington’s 2025 strike on Iran, the raid to remove Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in early 2026, and its renewed interest in acquiring Greenland have clarified the country’s international priorities. Meanwhile, s...

Perhaps ever since the dawn of capitalism, when the first workers were – literally – whipped into factory work and converted from life on a farm with a natural day and night rhythm and adjusted to the factory clock on t...

While many nations occasionally resort to a “state of exception” to deal with temporary crises, Israel exists in a permanent state of exception. This Israeli exceptionalism is the very essence of the instability that pl...

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 repressi...

WEBINAR Social Strikes: How Can We Use the Power of the People to End MAGA Tyranny? Join us Feb 16 to learn about the potential of social strikes to combat Trump's authoritarian juggernaut. @ln4s.bsky.social @ctulocal1.bsky.social @maindivisible.bsky.social REGISTER: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

On 20 May 2017, during a violent protest planned by sectors of the Venezuelan opposition, 21-year-old Orlando Figuera was attacked by a mob that accused him of being a Chavista. After being stabbed, he was doused with g...

Last November, the RSF militia committed a heinous massacre in Elfashir; thousands were killed in one day, including patients at a hospital, women, and children, who were lined up and shot to death. Satellite images exp...

There are periods in history when the concept of civilization captures the attention of historians and social scientists. About a century ago, Owald Spengler, Arnold Toynbee, and Pitirin Sorokin were the most distinguis...

Despite the fact that many workers in Germany are already working while sick, the push by conservative politicians, businesses, and Germany’s corporate media to further torment workers is relentless. The attacks of the ...

Israel just erased Palestinian existence from the West Bank by law, and it’s not an overstatement.  It has so far been commonplace to say that Israel’s annexation of the West Bank exists in all but name, since a state o...

Rank-and-file Teamsters in large Dallas, Los Angeles and Orange County locals have organized delegate slates in a grassroots movement to dump Sean O’Brien in 2026. If elected, the combined 42 delegates would attend this...

Israel just erased Palestinian existence from the West Bank by law, and it’s not an overstatement.  It has so far been commonplace to say that Israel’s annexation of the West Bank exists in all but name, since a state o...

Marta Jiménez, a hairdresser in Cuba’s eastern city of Holguín, covered her face with her hands and broke down crying when I asked her about Trump’s blockade of the island—especially now that the U.S. is choking off oil...

The partial reopening of Gaza’s southern Rafah crossing with Egypt has been marked by chaos and severe restrictions imposed by Israel, as tens of thousands of Palestinians continue to wait for medical evacuation to rece...

On Friday, February 6, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed an executive order—the thirteenth since taking office—to protect New York’s immigrants from the Trump administration’s abuses. New York is a so-called “sa...

Recently, the staunchly anti-communist supporter of neoliberalism, ex-BlackRock hedge fund manager and now Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, told Germans to work more – that is what Germany needs. But rather than be...

What does innovation look like when profit and capital accumulation aren’t the goal? I think about this often. Over a year ago, I began exploring this question in the context of technological innovation. Watching the AI...

In Trump's regime, are blue states now the internal "frontier"? znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

A reasoned, humane, and intelligent response via @filmsforaction.bsky.social znetwork.org/znetarticle/...

The second batch of documents allegedly belonging to Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire convicted child abuser, serial rapist, and human trafficker whose suicide in prison in 2019 was deemed suspicious, was released by th...

This is a follow up post to, “A Response To Greg Grandin’s Chomsky-Epstein Article” published on Feb 6, 2026. Valeria Chomsky’s statement on the Chomsky Epstein saga is out, and should confirm what any rational person s...

While Donald Trump’s approval ratings have taken a nosedive in the last few months Republican leadership, especially in the solidly red state of Texas, are seriously sweating over the result of a special election on Jan...

The Epstein Files do not warrant shock and horror. A quiet nod of the head along with maybe a lopsided, very restrained smile might suffice. I will consider my most cynical smirk – the one conveying a sort of fatalistic...

Two images, from opposite sides of the world, are seared into our minds:  Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos in his blue knit bunny hat, carrying his Spiderman backpack, being snatched from the streets and detained by ICE....

​The intellectual framework of new socialism gains meaning through the transcendence of the three main pillars of modernity: statism, industrialism, and hierarchical rationality. These three pillars have been reproduced...

The year was 1972, President Nixon was running for reelection; violent crime was  rampant, as poorly trained police officers were outgunned by gangs in the war on  drugs, and law enforcement was often infected and obstr...

As many are aware, my husband, Noam Chomsky, now 97, is confronting significant  health challenges after suffering a devastating stroke in June 2023. Currently, Noam is  under 24/7 medical care and is completely unable ...