C.J. Atkins

In capitalist society, Karl Marx said, an individual’s power is equal to the power of their money. Judging by the latest calculations of billionaire spending in the 2024 U.S.

As with all news-analysis and op-ed articles published by People’s World, this article reflects the views of its author. It is a contribution to the collective analysis needed as the anti-MAGA coalition moves into the next stage of the fight to resist Trump and fascism.

This article is being republished from People’s World. It’s the morning after, and all the pundits in the corporate media are pitching their explanations for what happened. There will be an endless number of hot takes and political spin stories proffered in the coming days.

NEW YORK—“The results are in, and to put it mildly, comrades, it ain’t pretty.” That was the blunt assessment made by Joe Sims in his opening remarks to a Nov. 16-17 meeting of the Communist Party USA’s National Committee Saturday morning in Manhattan.

Declaring “emergency martial law” on Tuesday, South Korea's conservative President Yoon Suk-yeol—known domestically as “K-Trump”—said he was shutting down democracy to combat what he called “shameless pro-North Korean” forces who were “plotting rebellion” and threatening the state.

Peace forces around the world are on guard, warning against Israeli and U.S. interference in the Syrian people's right to determine their own future in the wake of the fall of the Bashar al-Assad dictatorship.

A weekend of indiscriminate Israeli military attacks on schools, hospitals, refugee camps, and other shelters across Gaza pushed the death toll in the current genocidal war past 45,000, according to numbers reported by WAFA, the Palestinian news agency.

After 15 months of destruction and extermination, the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may or may not have finally agreed to a ceasefire that will could see an end to his military’s assault on the Gaza Strip, a swap of prisoners, and a halt to fighting with Hamas and other Palestini...

“One of the most ‘democratic' republics in the world is the United States of America, yet nowhere is the power of capital, the power of a handful of multimillionaires over the whole of society, so crude and so openly corrupt as in America. Once capital exists, it dominates the whole of society.”

President Donald Trump proved that he's no peacemaker when it comes to Israel's genocidal war. He floated the idea of forcible expulsion for Palestinians Saturday, saying that Jordan, Egypt, and other Arab nations should take in refugees to “just clean out” the destroyed Gaza Strip and create a “clean slate.”