More countries recognising a hypothetical entity called “State of Palestine” is positive in terms of its symbolic impact. However, the meanings and implications of this recognition greatly vary with time.
Donald Trump ruined everyone’s Fourth of July holiday by signing what he so fatuously called the “One Big Beautiful Bill”. It may be the single most damaging piece of legislation signed into law since: who knows?
In the upside-down world of 2025, the daily mass murder and starvation of children is fine and normal, but speaking against it is extremism, violence and hate speech.
Red Flag’s Ryan Stanton spoke to Joe Burns—a labour lawyer, union activist and bargaining negotiator since the 1990s—about where the US union movement has gone wrong and what needs to change.
Sometimes, there is good news. In the era of Trump 2.0, it might come only in small doses, but we ought to grab it with both hands when it presents itself.
The centre of Berlin was a sea of Palestinian flags and keffiyehs on Saturday 21 June. Banned slogans were held aloft and chanted loud. At least 50,000 turned out to show solidarity with Gaza.
With the world entering a potentially even more destructive phase, there is an urgent need to tear down the existing imperialist order and replace it with a socialist order: a society run according to the maxim “from each according to their ability, to each according to their need”.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians and thousands of Lebanese have been slaughtered with impunity. The calculation now is that hundreds or thousands of Iranians added to the toll will not be of any international consequence. But each death is more than a number.
The end of the Trump-Musk “bromance” was as predictable as the sun rising in the east. But the speed of the collapse and the vitriol unleashed were something to behold.
