Here’s the translation of the speech of one of the dockworker’s leaders in Genoa, before the departure of the ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla. “I want this to be clear to everyone &#…
Environmentalism Without Class Struggle Is Just Gardening
The ecological crisis is often presented as a conflict between “humanity” and “nature.” But this abstraction hides the real structure of destruction: a social order that turns the living world into profit, exhausts both workers and the earth, and then asks individuals to repair the damage through better consumption.
Ecology becomes serious only when it confronts the power that organizes land, labor, energy and life around endless accumulation. Without class struggle, environmentalism remains a beautiful garden surrounded by fire.
Full essay on The Ecosocialist.
The Mountain Is Autism: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery
This is one of the most helpful articles I have read in a long time. It challenges traditional thinking on many levels. She stretches me to rethink how I’ve built and rebuilt my life.
The Silent Body: Why Autistic Adults Don’t Know They’re Drowning With Stress Until They Collapse
Telling an autistic person with alexithymia to “listen to their body” is like telling someone with a broken fuel gauge to “just feel when the car needs gas.”
The Roots of Capitalism Run Through Slavery: The Thirty-Fourth Newsletter (2026) | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Behind the polished story of Western progress lies another history: steam power, modern banking, and industrial capitalism were not born of peaceful innovation but paid for with the blood of enslaved people.
The Covid-19 pandemic has contributed to increased scholarly attention to an important ‘human need’: good health. This article is about the relation between wor...
Is Capitalism A Disease? The Crisis of US Public Health - Monthly Review
Readers will note that this article is nearly twice the length of the normal MR piece, but because of the importance of the subject we are publishing it in its... READ MORE
Lithium-ion batteries keep catching fire in Toronto. Here's why they are so dangerous
Fires can be more aggressive based on how charged the battery is, which firefighters often have no way of knowing. The batteries can explode and become projectiles while crews are responding. And Toronto Fire has had to expand its decontamination process to get carcinogens off its gear, because the standard protocol isn’t good enough.
How Trump's tariffs work to redistribute wealth up the food chain
Though nominally aimed at making foreign "cheaters" pay, the U.S. president's tariffs have in fact been a powerful domestic mechanism for taking money from poor and middle-class Americans and giving it to large corporations that have been adept at playing the system — one that's heavily influenced by lobbying and political donations.