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The license is aimed not at significantly increasing production, much less at resolving Venezuela’s economic crisis, but at redirecting its cheap oil away from China and allowing US oil giants and a thin layer of the Venezuelan ruling elite to reach lucrative deals.

La Botz brings his “Third Campism” to the current situation, piously ascribing blame to both the Zionist regime and Hamas for the violence in the Middle East.

Communisms dark side is twofold: Those who suffered life in it and those who suffered death by it.

ALEX BRUMMER: The truth is that when the bond markets go through a volatile period - as they are now - every one of us feels the impact.

This is the first part of a three-part essay by David North from 1993 reviewing the origins of the Left Opposition.

Tuesday’s lecture will address the historical struggle of the Left Opposition and its contemporary relevance under conditions of imperialist war, economic crisis and a new upsurge of militant class struggle.

The brief prime-time address, seeking to connect the US military interventions in Ukraine and Israel, was an incoherent appeal that will anger rather than persuade those opposed to the worldwide explosion of American imperialism.

The risks of global escalation are growing, writes Edward Price in a guest commentary.

Retired Army col. Douglas Macgregor said President Joe Biden’s Thursday night address to the nation had “no truth” to it.

Jack Bernard retells the hoary old tale of the inadequacies of the minimum-maximum programme of classical Marxism and the wonders that can be performed once equipped with transitional demands