Malians seek to strengthen sovereignty By Carlos Lopes Pereira (guest author) posted on May 24, 2026 The author is a former member of the Secretariat of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde (PAIGC). This article was published May 21, 2026, in Avante!, the newspaper of...

How the ‘Imperial Six’ support imperialism – and vice versa (part 2) – Workers World By Zev Rosen posted on May 24, 2026 On March 11, Al Jazeera reported that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had declared key U.S. and Israeli corporations to be fair targets for resistance in the...

Another gruesome week on America’s death row: 2 executions, another halted amid bungled procedure Kate Randall Since the Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment with its 1976 ruling in Gregg v. Georgia, the United States has put more than 1,600 of its citizens to death. The two executions carried out in the...

Governments escalate the global war on online anonymity Stephen Parker A Kashmiri man browses the internet on his mobile phone outside a shop in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir. [AP Photo/Dar Yasin] Four months ago, the World Socialist Web Site analyzed the coordinated international offensive to abolish online anonymity and impose universal systems of...

The Marketplace of Power: What Bourgeois Politics Really Means A Marxist-Leninist View By Manu Kant Politics, under capitalism, is often presented as the highest expression of democracy, morality and public service. Every election season, the bourgeois media speaks endlessly of “the people’s mandate,” “national interest,” “development,” and “good governance.” Political...

Saintliness and Power: A Marxist View of Gandhi’s Brahmacharya By Manu Kant Few figures in modern history command the moral reverence associated with Mahatma Gandhi. For millions, he remains the saintly father of the Indian nation — the apostle of non-violence, simplicity, sacrifice, and truth. Yet the life of Gandhi...

A Marxist view on the environmental impact of AI data centers Billionaire tech bosses are facing opposition to unchecked data centers associated with job-killing artificial intelligence (AI) operations. Workers and oppressed people throughout the U.S. are pushing back against the development of data centers in their communities. Data centers are...

In Depth Ebola: A crisis made by capitalism The Democratic Republic of Congo is again in the grip of an Ebola outbreak, hundreds are dead already with millions more at risk as infections spread across central Africa. Yuri Prasad explores the ways in which imperialism and the search for profits paved...

The Ebola epidemic, imperialism and the political economy of social murder Evan Blake When one individual inflicts bodily injury upon another such that death results, we call the deed manslaughter; when the assailant knew in advance that the injury would be fatal, we call his deed murder. But when society...

Emperor penguins, Antarctic fur seals now on endangered species Red List Frank Gaglioti The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently added the emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) and the Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) to its Red List of endangered species. The listing underlines the impact of climate change...

Lalkar: Critique of the linguistic theory of Noam Chomsky “Without a revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement” – Lenin Noam Chomsky, the American professor of linguistics, is well known in progressive circles for the courageous stand he took against US imperialism on the question of the Vietnam war,...

The US indictment of Raúl Castro and the record of CIA terror against Cuba Evan Blake Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a press briefing in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 5, 2026. [AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein] U.S. Secretary of State...