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
- Iran’s Fearless Intellectuals, by Naghmeh Sohrabi – 7 March 2026
- Constructing a De-Ethnicised Inner Mongolia, by T.S. – 3 December 2024
- Perspectives on the Iranian Uprising and the US–Israeli War
- Monroe Doctrine Redux: New Americanism and the Echoes of Empire in China and Japan, by Craig A. Smith – 5 January 2026
- It Is Only a Matter of Time before the Communist Movement Reemerges in a New Historical Form. Interview with Saladdin Ahmed Bahozde – 30 July 2025
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