Amazon Web Services crash: who owns the internet? In the early hours of 20 October, a simple error disrupted the operations of a data centre hub for Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Northern Virginia. The ripple effect over the next few hours caused global outages to services as diverse as banking and real-time trading, tools for office management, social media, and even advanced...
US imperialism and Latin America: Trump threatens war on Venezuela Over the last few weeks, Trump has been brazenly ratcheting up tensions with Venezuela. Having declared its president, Maduro, the leader of a drug cartel, he has moved a tenth of America’s navy and B-52 bombers to...
Ireland: presidential election – a thundering rejection of the establishment Left-wing independent Catherine Connolly was elected the tenth president of Ireland with a thumping majority of 63 percent of the valid votes cast – the highest share of first preferences a presidential candidate has...
2025 Marxist School series picks up momentum in Chicago Communism has returned to Chicago! In a city with a rich history of labor struggles—including the world-famous Haymarket martyrs and the fight for a forty hour work week—about 200 revolutionary communists met on...
Shadow banking: a ticking time bomb under the US economy For months, the most peculiar situation has been playing out in front of our eyes. On the one hand, global capitalism has clearly entered a prolonged phase of crisis which is expressing itself at all levels. On the...
