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In my 2023 book I explained Big Tech’s overweening power to shape society, “technofeudalism”. In this article, I reply to my critics that this isn’t a moral critique but one based on a fully-fledged Marxist analysis of the dynamic of capital accumulation today.

Why is the far right winning in Europe? Germany’s AfD party has won two state elections in a month; nearly one in four Europeans now votes far right, and in three of the continent’s five biggest economies the far right either leads or governs. The way that we’re opposing it clearly isn’t working. So what should the left, and we as organisers, do now? To answer these questions I interviewed my colleague, Julijana Zita (who lives in a German village where many people vote AfD).

Palantir Technologies is becoming an increasingly prominent supplier of data-analysis and artificial-intelligence systems to governments, militaries, police forces and other public institutions around the world. In response to its growing threat, Progressive International has launched the Palantir Pledge, a campaign aimed at public officials who want to challenge the company’s growing role in the state.

We can’t keep regulating technology only after we have already implemented it and wait for courts to tell us years later where the limits should have been. Palantir’s software doesn’t need new data when the definition changes. It only needs a new question. European countries have a decision to make. As governments search for alternatives to American technology, the debate around Palantir is becoming part of a much larger question about Europe’s technological sovereignty.

Headlines from last week’s United Nations General Assembly focused on the ongoing US-Iran conflict. With good reason: The war, which began in February with joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran, has caused economic chaos around the globe, not to mention the deaths of soldiers and civilians, including 165 schoolgirls in Iran. What the press didn’t focus on was news made at the UN about the potential next Middle East conflict zone: Syria.

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A series of depressingly similar meetings followed only days later, in Berlin. First with Sigmar Gabriel, the leader of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), then with a delegation of parliamentarians representing the German Greens. The worst part of those meetings was not what was said; it was that it was clear they did not mean a word they uttered.

Germany’s far-right AfD has just won two state elections in two weeks, while the chancellor’s own party came fifth in one of them. The results are the latest sign of a political shift that is being felt across Europe, as voters increasingly turn towards the far right. But where does this support come from, and who is responsible for creating the conditions in which it can grow?

It has come to this: The witnesses are prosecuted for having witnessed the crime. European citizens who merely document suspect – often criminal – state actions beware: You may now be prosecuted by EU member-states for the act of documenting. The case of Tommy Olsen Tommy is the Norwegian founder of Aegean Boat Report (ABR). The Greek authorities are now prosecuting Tommy. He is due to face criminal proceedings on Rhodes on October 6. He denies the charges.

From Leeuwarden to NATO’s front lines: militarism is poisoning our sky, our soil, and our politics. It’s time to answer it – here, not just in Washington or Brussels. Last week, Donald Trump stood before the United Nations and did what he always does: torpedo peace initiatives, threaten war and mass destruction, and dismiss climate breakdown as a hoax. All while his country withholds billions in UN contributions.