Author: Gary Wilson

May 1, 2026, was International Workers’ Day. Workers, students, immigrants and community organizations rallied across the United States: no school, no work, no shopping — with signs and placards demanding “No ICE, no war.” That […]

In the early 1980s, as the Reagan administration’s assault on labor accelerated and plant closures gutted the industrial Midwest, a grassroots campaign put forward a demand that U.S. ruling-class politicians dismissed as utopian: a job […]

The petrodollar system took shape in the 1970s, sealed by Henry Kissinger. Saudi oil would be sold in dollars, Washington would protect the brutal Saudi monarchy, and Gulf oil profits would flow back into U.S. […]

The USS George H.W. Bush did not take the direct route to the war zone near Iran. The nuclear-powered supercarrier left Norfolk, Virginia, on March 31, then sailed more than 11,000 miles around the Cape […]

The Treasury Department announced April 24 secondary sanctions against Hengli Petrochemical, a private Chinese oil refinery at the port of Dalian with daily processing capacity of about 400,000 barrels. Treasury also sanctioned approximately 40 shipping […]

For 55 years, Washington had a power no other government had. It could buy from the world, borrow from the world and wage war around the world with dollars it controlled. Other countries needed dollars […]

U Vasuki, a Politburo member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), put the question plainly in Havana in October 2025: Who holds the tool? Who controls it? Whose class does it serve? More than […]