3+ hour, 9+ min ago (826+ words) The founding conference of Your Party, the new left formation led by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, took place this weekend in Liverpool. The unelected leadership installed by Corbyn suffered some narrow defeats. Members of the UK's new left party gathered in Liverpool this weekend for a founding conference. The formation launched by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, two politicians expelled from the Labour Party, was provisionally called Your Party. On Sunday, 37 percent of members voted to confirm this as the permanent name. But the conference only had four names to choose from " the alternatives were Popular Alliance, For the Many, and Our Party. How had those four options been whittled down from countless suggestions? Who had done the whittling? This was not quite clear. The night before the conference started, this not-yet-founded party announced the expulsion of a number…...

11+ hour, 46+ min ago (605+ words) Donald Trump is using the bogeyman of drug trafficking to potentially start a war with Venezuela. But the aggression is really about U.S. imperialism, and controlling Latin America. Over the weekend, the Trump administration ramped up threats of military intervention in Venezuela, announcing that it is closing airspace over the country. The moves are part of U.S. military buildup in the region, and come on the heels of deadly strikes on boats off the Venezuelan coast and demands for Nicol's Maduro to resign. Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth claim the aggression against Venezuela, which has killed over 80 people since September, is about self-defense and fighting "drug trafficking." Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt claimed that they, "have made it clear that presidentially designated narco-terrorist groups are subject to lethal targeting in accordance with the laws of war." Some in Congress are feeling…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago (380+ words) Over 20,000 workers and students blocked the AfD's new youth congress in Giessen, facing heavy police repression. Their struggle shows that only united, organized working-class action can stop the Far Right and the politicians and capitalists who enable it. This article was originally published on November 29, 2025 in Klasse Gegen Klasse. Alternative for Germany (AfD) Social Democratic Party (SPD) Trump's proposed Ukraine deal, offering Russia territorial concessions, will only escalate imperialist competition and lead to further European rearmament. Only an independent, anti-imperialist mobilization of workers and youth can chart a progressive path to peace. Germany's Left Party is slowly moving away from its militant Zionism. But the leadership continues to attack pro-Palestinian activists. Trump is increasing pressure on multiple actors to end the war in Ukraine, even though such a "peace" would leave the underlying geopolitical contradictions unresolved. In the absence of…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago (611+ words) Many of Zohran Mamdani's supporters believe that under his leadership, New York can set a positive example of municipal socialism for the rest of the country. But by neglecting the power of Mamdani's base and focusing on "socialism" in just one city, that fight is already being restrained. This idea that as a mayor, Mamdani essentially has no choice but to be diplomatic with Trump in order to resist the president's ire has recently been questioned by Boston mayor Michelle Wu. Wu is certainly not a leftist by any stretch of the word, but she recently challenged Mamdani's approach to Trump, saying she's "not interested in a bromance with the federal regime." While Wu is in the spotlight for her biting comments, she's not the only example of how mayors can take very different approaches to Trump than Mamdani did. An…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago (671+ words) Mamdani has decided to keep a right-wing billionaire at the top of the New York Police Department. He was right to call them, back in 2020, "racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety." This is one of his many concessions to the capitalist establishment. On November 19, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch accepted Zohran Mamdani's offer to remain in her position atop the police force " a move celebrated by far-right figures ranging from President Donald Trump to Zionist Councilmember Inna Vernikov, who infamously brought a gun to a student rally at Brooklyn College. Despite criticism from community organizations and the Left, Mamdani defended his decision to keep Tisch. In a recent NBC News interview, Mamdani said that "the fact that she has been able to deliver on rooting out corruption while lowering crime is something to be celebrated." But Tisch's real legacy…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago (480+ words) On this episode of the podcast, we critique Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's book Abundance, and discuss the ways in which it's a symptom of a larger crisis of capitalism and neoliberalism that the project cannot resolve. Klein and Thompson are advocating is less regulation to make it easier to build things more cheaply, and more aggressive state intervention in the economy to help direct investment toward things like high-speed rail, housing, and energy. The timing of their book and their general, all-encompassing prescription, is no coincidence. The Democrats is in crisis, having lost the presidency to Donald Trump and both the Senate and House to the Republicans. The Democratic Party is also losing ground to right-wing populism, and experiencing record-low popularity. But Klein and Thompson's policy proposals, and the Abundance framework, can't fix what ails the United States. In…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago (793+ words) While we fight for self-determination of oppressed peoples, without any conditions, we need to embed that in a larger strategy for socialism. Workers have no nation, and no need for nation states. For the last two years, the global Left has been mobilizing against national oppression. In Gaza, we are witnessing the horrific results when the imperialist powers and their local vassals attempt to deny the right to self-determination. Every people has a basic democratic right to live free of foreign domination. Yet what is our goal as leftists? The world might seem like it is made up of a certain number of nations, with justice requiring that each nation has its own state. We do indeed fight for independent homelands for the Palestinians, the Kurds, the Sahrawis, etc. Yet bourgeois society tends to project nations back into the ancient…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago (352+ words) The zine brings together writings and art'from CUNY students and workers on solidarity and repression at CUNY and beyond. Containing articles, creative writing and art about the history of political repression at CUNY, immigrant struggles under Trump, hopes and limits of the Zohran Mamdani moment, the general strike in Italy and more, the launch event united the CUNY community. CUNY students, workers and alumni launched the second issue of the YNUC Anti-Capitalist Zine. This issue focused on the CUNY Fired Four, solidarity and repression at CUNY and beyond. Hakeem Jeffries is the enemy of everything Mamdani claims to stand for. Instead of making peace with the Democratic Party, socialists should be leading the fight for working people to break from them once and for all. The recent vote in the House to "denounce the horrors of socialism" is not happening…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago (553+ words) CUNY students, workers and alumni launched the second issue of the YNUC Anti-Capitalist Zine. This issue focused on the CUNY Fired Four, solidarity and repression at CUNY and beyond. Yet, the gathering of the brilliant and impassioned students, faculty, and staff of CUNY " to discuss frustrations, hopes, and ideas, which rise from the creative depths where art is born " can be one of the seeds that grows into mass animated movement that no amount of repression from the university or the government can suppress. As eloquently explained in the foreword, we are publishing the second issue of our zine as "YNUC" in solidarity with students and workers repressed by the university administration. CUNY written backwards is in honor of the journalists at the Brooklyn College student newspaper The Vanguard, whose legacy we carry with pride into the turbulent present and…...

1+ week, 13+ hour ago (628+ words) Trump's proposed Ukraine deal, offering Russia territorial concessions, will only escalate imperialist competition and lead to further European rearmament. Only an independent, anti-imperialist mobilization of workers and youth can chart a progressive path to peace. Philippe Alcoy and Lucian Istrati Last week the Ukrainian government announced that the United States has proposed a peace agreement to end the war with Russia. The draft agreement is reportedly the result of ongoing discussions between Russian and U.S. representatives, who have been engaged in a veritable diplomatic yo-yo since Donald Trump's return to the White House. For the United States, the plan offers Ukraine the best it can get, given the current battlefield situation. The Trump administration sees the territorial concessions in Donbas as a lesser evil. According to Anatol Lieven of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, The plan contains additional concessions aligned…...