Capitalism
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Lobito and the Long Arm of Empire: Europe’s Green Transition Runs on African Land, Labor, and Life
How the EU’s “model corridor” revives the colonial blueprint under the banner of sustainability— and how African workers, communities, and global movements are fighting back. Continue reading
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Fascism, Terror, War and Genocide: The Epochal Crisis of Global Capitalism
Sociologist William I. Robinson speaks at the CT Civil Liberties Defense Committee conference in Hartford, CT on Nov. 8, 2025. William I. Robinson is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Global and International Studies, Latin American and Iberian Studies, and Affiliated Faculty, Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is… Continue reading
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China Widens Tech & Education Gap with Outlaw US Empire
Productive planning versus casino capitalism Continue reading
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Data Center resistance: a good ground game can help stop the corporate AI offensive
Major tech companies–OpenAI (GPT), Google (Gemini), Anthropic (Claude), Meta (Llama), and xAI (Grok)–are spending heavily to boost the computing power of their respective large language artificial intelligence (AI) models. The companies claim that this spending will transform them into systems that businesses will happily pay to use and, in the near future, lead to artificial… Continue reading
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Expand or die: a system that can’t stop creating crises
Walk through Fort Worth, Texas, and you’ll see the story of a collapsing empire written in steel and concrete. Continue reading
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New analysis: climate impact of data centres
As part of Foxglove’s work to sound the alarm on the environmental impact of Big Tech’s dash to cover the UK in data centres, we’ve published some new analysis of data centres’ impact on the UK’s efforts to cut carbon emissions. Continue reading
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Larry Ellison’s Spider Web
Larry Ellison founded Oracle decades ago, and through that became a multi-billionaire. The latest estimate puts his net worth at US$344 billion, after he ramped Oracle stock with an utterly unbelievable deal with OpenAI to get Oracle stock that “AI” premium. Like so many of the new oligarchs that are as much stock pumpers and… Continue reading
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Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop
Millions of people watch a video of Tel Aviv in smoking ruins after an Iranian attack. Footage from a US bombing of Tehran takes the place of breaking news from a strike that is yet to happen. Look closer, and you see strange image errors and artifacts. The grass beneath the F-35 is eerily green… Continue reading
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Who is responsible for heat that kills?
Discussions of climate change that focus on the 1.5°C or 2.0°C targets can be misleading. An increase of less than two degrees seems small compared to the normal temperature variations we experience from season to season or even from night to day. Continue reading
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Break Your Psychological Chains to an Evil called “The West”
Oligarchy’s propaganda machine has rewritten the history of a civilization that perfected industrial genocide as a story of progress and enlightenment. Continue reading
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“The World Race, Red-Baiting, and the Wilsonian Century” Anievas
This is a review of a chapter in the edited volume “A History of American Literature and Culture of the First World War” that Alexander Anievas has made available online here. The introductory paragraph: Continue reading
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Books: AI Is a Total Grift
Much of what’s known as ‘AI’ has nothing to do with progress — it’s about lobbyists pushing shoddy digital replacements for human labour that increase billionaire’s profits and make workers’ lives worse. Continue reading
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Ecosocialist Bookshelf August 2025
Six important books on slavery, capitalist diseases, climate action, scientists resisting, economic planning, and technofossils. Continue reading
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Intangibles: does it change things?
A recent article in the UK’s Financial Times got very excited about the rise of intangibles. The author Tek Parikh said that “50 years go, the assets held by top 500 US companies were predominantly ‘tangible’ — factories, equipment, inventory et cetera. But today, it is estimated that most of their assets are ‘intangible’ ie. intellectual… Continue reading
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Exorcising the Ghosts of the Imperial Left: Domenico Losurdo and the Class War Inside Marxism
Western Marxism is not a tradition to be reclaimed—it’s an enemy ideology crafted in the image of empire. Domenico Losurdo’s final intervention is not an invitation to debate, but a call to defect. From critique to combat. From the seminar to the struggle. From the West to the world. Continue reading
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For an ‘ecommunist’ alternative to degrowth and luxury communism
Fiery Red Interview If the working class does not tackle capitalism, then reactionary solutions will be imposed Continue reading
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Wealth Extraction At Its Finest: The Big Beautiful Bill
“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”, the more it changes, the more it remains the same. Or “back to the 1880s!” The New Deal era was the exception for the US, not the rule. Continue reading
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To Dodge Epstein Trump Declares Intra-Elite War
The US ruling bourgeois oligarchy can have its differences, but when push comes to shove the interests of the oligarchic class as a whole will trump any differences. Members of the oligarchy and bought-and-paid-for political tools may attack each other, but they will never get so vicious as to expose the overall class interests. It… Continue reading
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China DUMPS US Bonds, Dollar CRASHES as BRICS Steps In w/ Richard Wolf & Sean Foo
Wednesday, 23 July 2025 — Danny Haiphong The US dollar is crashing hard as the US economy falters amid geopolitical shockwaves and turbulence. Economist Richard Wolff and market analyst Sean Foo team up to offer a serious warning about the state of the US empire as Trump takes a torch to its economic base. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 