In this first dossier edited by the Heatwave media collective, we present a series of short articles by communists from various countries about the local impacts of the second Trump administration’s international policies — focusing specifically on the tariffs.
TRUMP II: Trade War Gone Global, by 闯 Chuǎng – 3 June 2025
Tariffs as a Class Offensive, by Jamie Merchant – 29 May 2025
An Epochal Turning Point?, by Raffaele Sciortino – 27 May 2025
The Great Détournement-The Miran Doctrine and the Trump Shock, by the Réalité Working Group – 22 May 2025
The Trump Tariffs: Some Notes from the Antipodes, by the Clearinghouse Research Collective – 19 May 2025
More content from this blog
- Transnational Solidarities. Interview with Nico Slate – 13 April 2026
- As a Palestinian Woman, It Is My Duty to Support the Ethiopian Struggle, by Samah Salaime – 15 July 2019
- Oyan, Qazaqstan and The Kazakh Spring. Interview with Asem Zhapisheva – 2 October 2025
- How Hindu Nationalists Redefined Decolonization in India, by Sanya Dhingra – 14 August 2023
- Someone Else’s War: The Geopolitical Alibi in Iran’s 2026 Protests, by Mina Khanlarzadeh – 20 February 2026
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