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Author, Bruce Lerro, Co-Founder and Co-Manager of Socialist Planning Beyond Capitalism

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Is there a place for race and ethnicity in helping us to understand Europe’s decline?
Both liberals and Marxists agree that ethnicity is something prevalent in pre-modern times but as a result of both capitalism and communism it is thankfully dying out. The outlook on race is even worse. Social scientists inform us that the existence of races is a social and ideological process, not anything biological or evolutionary. Discussing races at all is a sign someone is racist and …

“I’ll just make it clear, there’s no way I’m ever coming out for El-Sayed right now. And like, until—you know, this is a guy who has made it very clear his views toward—and has refused to back off his views toward Jewish Americans. And I hope he comes out and clarifies where he is. I also hope that he does the right thing and condemns Hasan Piker clearly and the language very clearly.” This statement, made by Representative Joshua Gottheimer (D-NJ), during a CNN broadcast on August …

Crisis after crisis is unfolding, yet this wrecking ball and his crew enjoy box seats at the World Cup while bombing neighborhoods in Iran and sending ICE goons into our own communities.

Yet another story gets lost in the chaos and terror of the Hateful Regime’s daily misanthropy.

Who’s taking care of our aging, frail, sick, disabled, dying, many of whom are often frightened, sometimes angry and unappreciative? Who’s bathing their clients/loved ones, changing adult diapers, supervising medications, and providing companionship in relationships that are intimate as …

Lincoln Breaks the Interest Trap – image by ScheerPost
In August 2026, the U.S. debt reached a gravity-defying $40 trillion, with an estimated fiscal year 2026 deficit of $2.1 trillion. Interest on the debt hit a record $1.4 trillion over the last 12 months and now consumes more than any federal program except Social Security and Medicare, eclipsing defense spending for the first time in U.S. history. Paid with …

Venezuela recorded a sizzling eight-year high in electricity demand on August 10:  15,625 MW [Megawatts].

I’m no electrical engineer, but with an installed generation capacity of 36,000MW working at around 40% (13-14,000 MW), there is an obvious mathematical short-circuit here.

This shortfall has once again ignited a plethora of power cuts and crippling rationing, even in the once protected ‘bubble city’ of Caracas, which, while predictable, is still undesirable. But the cuts’ context is different this time compared to past rationing.

Venezuela has suffered frequent and constant cyclical power shortages since roughly 2008 – including a …

Another bleak warning, another round of Cassandra calls about humanity’s immaculate sense of destructive self. This month, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross and Red Crescent (ICRC) Mirjana Spoljaric Egger issued a joint appeal stating that, “We are now dangerously close to crossing a moral red line: the autonomous targeting of humans by machines.” Both insist that two types of autonomous weapons – unpredictable autonomous weapons and anti-personnel weapons – be prohibited.
In Geneva, the chief of disarmament affairs at UN Geneva, Mélanie Régimbal, held up the fort …

At the behest of Donald Trump Mark Carney has massively increased military spending while maintaining the armed forces’ extensive ties to their US counterparts. Still, the Trump administration is mocking Canada’s military.

On Monday, US Secretary Scott Bessent made fun of the Canadian armed forces. He stated, “We’re not at war with Canada. How are we going to be at war with Canada? What, are they going to take their two submarines from the Edmonton mall and sic them on us?” Additionally, US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth posted an …

Ever since Hugo Chávez became Venezuela’s President in 1999 and initiated the Bolivarian Revolution, the country has been under siege by the US. The aggression escalated with the kidnapping of its lawful President, part of a larger and accelerating assertion of US imperial power worldwide. The Bolivarian Revolution survived but is in a forced tactical retreat.

For progressives outside Venezuela, this presents a difficult question. How should we respond when a government resisting US domination makes compromises that we may oppose, but does so under conditions largely imposed by Washington?

This article argues that criticism has its place. But it …

When the Trump administration abducted the Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife on January 3, an open incitement to international lawbreaking was asserted. Here was thuggish impunity, crude acquisition and harsh plunder in operation: the seizure of a sovereign leader in office on fanciful narco-terrorist charges, a violation of the territorial sanctity of a state guaranteed by Article 2 of the United Nations Charter, and the demand that Venezuela be compliant with Washington’s objectives in its vulgar reiteration of the Monroe Doctrine. The prize was clearly oil.

Towards the end of August, President Donald Trump was in a sprightly mood …

Restricting access to social media platforms to children of a certain age has become something of a spreading mania. This prohibitionist urge has captured the interest of governments for its shallow, meretricious appeal. Refusing to deal with the actual conduct of the social media giants, notably in terms of their odious brand of surveillance capitalism and its influence on adults and children, preference has been shown for populist, crowing measures that focus on prohibition over education.

On August 14, France’s Constitutional Council struck down legislation banning the use of social media by persons under the age of 15 years, …

The world debates Artificial Intelligence’s (AI) effects on the socioeconomic system, either good or bad, no in between or indifference. As usual, comments depend upon bias and agenda. Selected facts, opinions posed as facts, and made for consumption stories guide the wary to weariness, complicated by the subjective interpretations from the readers. The divide is complete, with no middle ground; the Luddites see mass unemployment and economic breakdown and the entrepreneurs see less overhead and vast profits. A segment of society is concerned with the human experience, controls, and the social, moral, and ethical changes that the evolving AI will …

Salma Zaid’s burnt cars

If Anthony Housefather’s car was set ablaze, would it be linked to Palestine and antisemitism? Why is confirmed and probable Zionist violence treated differently? Should we also be pointing a figure at those inciting it?

In the middle of the night Wednesday Liberal MP Salma Zaid had her car set ablaze. Video shows a man pouring gasoline on five cars in her Scarborough driveway. He succeeds in burning two of them and runs off when the gas container catches fire. Reportedly, cars …

Israel’s ‘shoot-to-cripple’ policy was bad enough. As retired trauma surgeon David Halpin, who often worked as a volunteer in Gaza hospitals, reported in January 2011: “The deliberate injury of the limbs of 23 boys by high-velocity weapons has been logged and described by Defence for Children International Palestine Branch (DCI-P) since March 2010.”

Extreme poverty among Gazans had forced men and boys to scavenge for broken concrete (gravel) among the rubble of the evacuated Eli Sinai settlement and the industrial zone by the Erez border post where factories had been demolished by Israeli shelling. This material could be used to …

Mark Carney’s CEO summit serves Trump’s billionairist, militarist, ecocidal agenda. Any effort to frame it as challenging the US president should be ridiculed.

On September 14 and 15 Carney will host what the Globe and Mail recently labelled “the largest gathering of top business leaders ever to assemble in the country.” Liberal Party supporters want to frame it as a reaction to Trump’s economic sabotage, but Carney’s investment summit largely promotes the US president’s project. As the prime minister himself stated when addressing a similar type of corporate crowd in …

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