Former Proud Boys national leader Enrique Tarrio is set to be sentenced on Wednesday for a failed plot to keep Donald Trump in power after the Republican lost the 2020 presidential election, capping one of the most significant prosecutions in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Human rights activists surrounded the Buenos Aires city legislature on Monday to protest at an event honoring “victims of armed left-wing groups” during the 1970s, when Argentina was engulfed by political violence.

History shows Ottawa reacts aggressively to reforms that curtail Canadian companies’ ability to profit abroad, and West Africa is a region where Canadians have been able to generate immense profits for themselves due to Western political and economic interference. As such, we should watch the ongoing discussions around mining in West Africa closely.

Non-scholars tend to be impressed by studies that are seemingly scientific but on closer inspection simply don’t hold water. They are often offered by our news media in pursuit of government largesse, and our politicians and bureaucrats usually fall for them. As Marc Edge writes, in policy debates, ‘junk science’ should be taken with not just a grain of salt, but several kilos of it.

In another unpredictable monsoon season, Pakistan’s farming communities face a resurgence in of indentured servitude.

Striking grocery workers in Toronto and surrounding suburbs say they cannot afford to shop at the very stores they work in. The 2,300 workers at 27 Metro grocery stores have been on strike since July 29, having turned down a tentative collective agreement that had been unanimously approved by their union leadership.

AI threatens to reduce already shrunken workdays on streaming videos, movies, TV shows, and the like to one-day sessions—and one day’s pay, while the studios continue to make millions forever by duplicating the writers’ and performers’ work endlessly.

The Breach | Indigenous communities that first warned against burning fossil fuels are now facing permanent displacement caused by climate breakdown

Michael Roberts Blog | It seems that if world’s major economies sink into a slump or face unsustainable debts in the rest of this decade, there would be no ‘escape hatch’ from productivity growth or increased exports because innovation was being squeezed by high interest rates; and trade was being squeezed by US sanctions on Russia and China and by the rise in trade barriers. It all sounds like the 1930s not the roaring 20s.

The rise of the BRICS is not enough to displace the U.S. or avert a third world war. Anti-imperialists in remaining U.S. allies like Britain must do what we can to halt the drive towards militarisation and end our governments’ subordination to Washington.

Even after more than one hundred days of a nationwide strike of Hollywood writers, studio heads are monumentally out of touch with the most basic demands that those writers are unified around winning.

Writers are striking to save film and TV from destruction by corporate giants. New Deal-era schemes like the Federal Theatre Project and the Group Theater offer a tantalizing glimpse of how entertainment could be run as a public good, not as a business.

Syriza is electing a new leader after Alexis Tsipras resigned from his longtime role at the head of the party. He leaves the Greek left at its lowest point in decades, with far-right forces now exploiting the mood of social despair.

From the mid-nineteenth century, most countries of the Africa’s Sahel came under French colonial rule. Today, neocolonial structures maintain French domination in the region. Each time the people of the Sahel have risen, they have been struck down. With the recent military coup, Niger is once again moving in a direction that Western countries do not like. They are pushing for a military intervention to bring ‘order’ to Niger. However, the people want to confront neocolonialism and shatter resignation.

Cracks in the US-EU alliance could mean political openings for the working classes living in the West as well as in Global South nations. In a world facing climate catastrophe, skyrocketing levels of inequality, the threat of more war and even a nuclear war, the costs of missing any such opportunity would be nothing short of tectonic.

Sunday afternoon at the Auto Workers (UAW) Region 1 Pavilion in Warren, Michigan, felt a lot like church. Auto workers came together in sweltering heat to rally each other with fiery speeches, cheers, and songs in the first Big 3 contract rally anyone can remember. The contracts with Ford, General Motors (GM), and Stellantis expire September 14.

My last post was on the Global Wealth report produced every year by Credit Suisse and associated economists. ... However, as I published that post, the 2023 global wealth report was released, now under the name of UBS which has taken over Credit Suisse (that’s another story). Now the data show that in 2022, global wealth inequality dropped back to 1% of adults (59m) owning 44.5% of all personal wealth, still slightly higher than before the pandemic in 2019. At the other end of the wealth pyramid, the bottom 52.5% of the world’ population (2.8bn) had net wealth of just 1.2%, slightly better than in 2021.

The unexpected victory of far-right libertarian Javier Milei in Argentina’s primaries marks a crisis for both Peronism and its traditional conservative antagonists. No one knows exactly what will happen next.

Once-celebrated crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried is now sitting in a Brooklyn jail cell, awaiting trial for several counts of fraud and money laundering. But the scammy Silicon Valley capitalism he represents isn’t going anywhere.

The economics suggest that Putin can continue the war against Ukraine for several years to come, even taking into account the collapse in the currency and rising inflation and interest rates. Of course, that does not take into account political developments (like the Wagner revolt or gains by Ukraine’s NATO backed army). They could threaten Putin’s rule. And there are presidential elections in Russia next March – as supposedly there are in Ukraine. Both Putin and Zelensky must face the voters – at least theoretically.