VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
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Unions should embrace new wave of worker co-operatives
Across the world a new model of worker-owned co-ops is bucking neoliberal austerity, says NICK MATTHEWS
Trump’s ‘Peace Council’ is not a peace project, but a war and colonial council that renews Western colonialism, writes SEVIM DAGDELEN
The US attack on Venezuela raises grave threats to Cuba and the region, writes NATASHA HICKMAN of Cuba Solidarity Campaign
Trump’s vision of ‘might is right’ signals the collapse of the postwar order — and a warning of who may be next, warns BOB ORAM
ROGER McKENZIE pays tribute to a communist, internationalist and organiser, who endures, 50 years after his death, not just as a towering artist but as a master teacher of struggle
Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY reflects on 2025, tracing how war, imperialism, shrinking democratic spaces and neoliberal restructuring shaped global and Indian politics – pointing towards the urgent task of building a more democratic and just future
There is no doubt that trade unions and worker co-operatives have the same roots.
Both are attempts by workers to retain more of the value of what they produce and more control over how it is produced. Indeed when you look at the very early trade unions they look more like co-operatives.
In more recent history unions and co-ops have not always been on the best of terms.
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