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A divided island, a divided left: Iceland after the EU referendum Iceland says No. But to what exactly? Matthias Kokorsch takes a look at the results of the EU accession referendum.

The radical ecology of Rosa Luxemburg Paul Le Blanc reviews a new book that reveals little known dimensions of Rosa Luxemburg the outstanding thinker and revolutionary, but also the generously gifted human being.

‘To create model social institutions’: The international Communist Women’s Movement, reproductive labor and the politics of care, 1920–1936 Interwar Communist women’s activism for the socialization of housework and care, argues Daria Dyakonova, offered a powerful vision of what we now know as intersectionality and reproductive justice.

Sitting on a time bomb Fires, floods and heatwaves are warning signs of a social order whose pursuit of endless accumulation is colliding with ecological limits, contends Phil Hearse.

The smoke of capitalism Indonesia’s forest fires are the deliberate result of a system that requires burning the lungs of the world, writes Frans Ari Prasetyo.

The silent bomb: AI and the dismantling of the human mind The robots are not taking over. But, as Rezgar Akrawi explains, we are facing a different model of digital control, one that leaves us all further subject to systems, corporations and intelligent machines.

Malaysia’s data centre boom: Who pays, who profits? Gandipan Nantha Gopalan asks: what are Malaysians getting for providing land, electricity, water, infrastructure and incentives to promote data centre investments?

On Russia’s New Economic Policy in the early 1920s and the crisis facing Cuba today While some measures being taken in Cuba resemble the Russian Revolution’s “New Economic Policy”, the situation facing Cuba today is very different, argue the editors of World-Outlook.

The Trump–Rodríguez pact and Venezuela’s neocolonial subordination The US-Venezuela oil deal, a product of the pact between “brutalist” imperialism and an authoritarian regime, represents the exercise of arbitrary power through neocolonial subordination, writes Emiliano Teran Mantovani.

Does Delcy Rodríguez have any options? Trump’s success in wresting concessions from Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez is a clear demonstration of what can be achieved through the barrel of a gun, writes Steve Ellner.