Paul Robeson was born on this day in 1898. A pioneering black singer and actor, he was also a lifelong radical – and committed his life to the struggle against oppression and exploitation across the globe.

As tensions heat up on the Ukraine-Russia border, Vijay Prashad takes a look at the factors and interests behind what is happening

Anti-vaccine, anti-mask and anti-lockdown movements are, at their core, new mobilizations of white supremacy.

The COVID-19 crisis has been a case study in the destructiveness of predatory financial institutions like private equity and hedge funds. From private-equity-owned hospitals that cut staff to the bone to the growing investor interest in disaster-driven industries like insurance, the pandemic has been a gold mine for some of the finance industry's most rapacious and socially useless segments.

"Today, we look at the past and lament the savageness of exploitative labor practices, for instance, during the industrial revolution. Tomorrow, we will look at today and lament the foolishness of the surveillance economy."

The danger posed by California’s Proposition 22, the tech-backed ballot measure that dismantles existing labor protections for gig workers, isn’t just about low wages and poor working conditions. It signals the creation of an entirely new kind of servant class.

We are witnessing a troubling expansion of market fundamentalist propaganda from beyond think tanks and media elites