“Financialize Everything”: How ‘Prediction Markets’ Are Selling the End of the World
Early this month, CNN reportedly formed a partnership with Kalshi, “the world’s largest prediction market company” according to Axios. As part of the deal, CNN will embed data from Kalshi’s online market into live news broadcasts, “includ[ing] prediction market content related to politics, news, culture and weather.” Kalshi, alongside their main major competitor Polymarket, offers a marketplace […]
Trump’s Tariffs Are An Attack on Workers
On April 2nd, Trump announced a range of new tariffs on goods imported into the United States from almost every country in the world. The Trump administration has implemented a 10% baseline tariff on almost all goods imported into the U.S., with even higher “reciprocal tariffs” on goods from a select group of countries that […]
It’s Time to Do Away with Borders and Bosses
April 14, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French. On Tuesday, April 2nd, Trump declared a trade war on the whole world: tariffs rising from 10% to 25%, or even more, sowing panic among European bosses, and from 20% to 54% for imports from China. On Tuesday, April 8th, […]
Barriers Don’t Protect: They Enclose!
April 7, 2025 editorial of the New Anticapitalist Party-Revolutionaries (NPA-R) in France, translated from French On Wednesday, April 2—it would have seemed like an April Fool’s joke the day before—Trump announced an increase in U.S. customs duties. An economic war has been declared, risking nothing less than a global economic crisis. American Imperialism on the […]
Tariffs And Trade Wars: Another Price For The Working Class To Pay
The Trump administration has been threatening and implementing tariffs and trade wars with Mexico, Canada, China, and the European Union, the top trading partners of the United States. Trump said in his State of the Union speech that there would be reciprocal tariffs for any country who lays tariffs on the United States. In retaliation, […]
Kenya Protests and Imperialism
For more than a week, hundreds of thousands in Kenya hit the streets to protest a recently proposed finance bill that would have raised taxes on many everyday essentials. Bread, cooking oil, sugar, sanitary napkins and more basic necessities would have been hit by the tax, which would have struck hardest at the working poor […]
UK Port Workers Stand Up to the Global Supply Chain
On August 28, nearly 2,000 port workers in Felixstowe, the United Kingdom’s busiest port, concluded an 8-day strike that followed their rejection of a final offer from C.K. Hutchinson Holding, Ltd, the port operator. Because the port handles nearly one-third of all the U.K.’s trade, and an even larger percent of its trade with Asia, […]