Maduro’s kidnapping has exposed Beijing’s powerlessness. Billions invested in Latin America, but when Washington intervenes, China can only talk The U.S. military operation that led
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The Russian economy appears resilient for now, but long-term stagnation is nearly unavoidable When Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022,
The Lee government is caught between economic dependence on China and security dependence on the US South Korea has opened up its borders a bit
Dramatically falling birthrates and a skyrocketing number of divorces as the number of marriages collapsing increases all point toward the erosion of the capitalist family
This is Part 4 in Chuang‘s serialised translation of the 2024 year-in-review “Keeping Each Other Afloat in a Difficult World: Taking Stock of Labor Struggles
Why do Western technologies continue to fuel Russia’s war machine despite sweeping sanctions? Is it a matter of loopholes — or proof that global capital
How have the deployment of peacekeepers in January 2022 and the subsequent outbreak of war in Ukraine reshaped Kazakhstan’s relationship with Russia? How is Kazakhstani
Over the past few years, industrial policy and manufacturing capacity, especially in the high-tech sector, have been at the centre of great power rivalry between
On October 20, Rodrigo Paz won the first runoff election in Bolivian history by promising economic stability. The Christian Democratic Party (PDC) candidate won the
From The Nation Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance by Melinda Cooper 2024 Ever since Donald Trump’s election in 2016, liberals and the left
Denys Gorbach (Kryvyi Rih, 1984) is a sociologist. The research from his doctoral thesis at Sciences Po (Paris) is contained in the book ‘The Making
Following Nepal recently, in Madagascar, young people are organising and making their voices heard: the ’Gen Z Madagascar’ collective is mobilising in the streets and
This is Part 3 in Chuang‘s serialised translation of the 2024 year-in-review “Keeping Each Other Afloat in a Difficult World: Taking Stock of Labor Struggles
From Angola to Zambia to Uzbekistan: three emblematic cases reveal how China’s model of economic expansion is generating growing resistance around the world Three emblematic
“Ethiopian working people’s incomes are simply so low that they cannot be pilfered very much further.” Dr. Samuel Andreas Admasie is a researcher and archive
Why BRICS is not a threat to imperialism, and an “anti-polar” alternative is needed If the Western liberal political empire has been shamed beyond repair
This is Part 2 in Chuang‘s serialised translation of the 2024 year-in-review “Keeping Each Other Afloat in a Difficult World: Taking Stock of Labor Struggles
Preface by Chuang 闯 Since 2020, an anonymous group of netizens has been coming together to prepare an annual review of labor struggles (or, in
Episode Description What comes to mind when we think about the Sahara? Rippling sand dunes, sun-blasted expanses, camel drivers and their caravans perhaps. Or famine,
As Kenya marks the first anniversary of the uprising that shook the nation on 25 June 2024, Abdirashid Diriye reflects on the pivotal role played
Ivan Bakalov is a researcher and expert on Russia’s political economy. He argues that Russian capitalism hit its limits after the economic crisis of 2008-2009.
Development economist Amirullah Khan explains the social indicators that show the stark deprivation of the majority of India’s Muslims, especially in education and employment. He talks
The protests that swept through China between May and early June 2025 highlight deep tensions and dynamics of growing instability in the country’s social fabric
From Africa Is a Country The global economic balance of power is shifting, and Africa finds itself at a crossroads. The traditional dominance of the
Trump’s trade war is back—bigger, louder, and somehow even dumber. Some say it’s different this time. But like most sequels, the plot is familiar. The
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
Factions of capital in the second Trump administration Hegemonic decline, according to the historian Fernand Braudel, has historically come with financialization. Amid declining profitability in
The Indonesia of Prabowo Subianto navigates international pressures and national ambitions, balancing Chinese control over nickel, tensions in the South China Sea and the return
The political shift to the right—towards authoritarianism, nationalism, misogyny, and hatred of queer people—is global and dates back to the 2008 crisis. Its main political
Africa today stands at a crossroads, caught between internal crises, shifting global power dynamics, and the slow unraveling of the post-liberation political order. Across the
From In These Times. Trump’s plans around tariffs and annexation resemble a new Monroe Doctrine, but it’s a recipe that only leads to economic collapse—and
Saima Desai interviews David Camfield about his new book, Red Flags. Increasingly, people are responding to the contemporary crises underwritten by capitalism by exploring the
With the Trump administration having now been in office for around one month, the spillover effects on Taiwanese domestic politics are being felt in a
Current geopolitical competition has deepened into a Second Cold War between the US and China, but this is no longer a fight over territory but
In 2011, Donald Trump spoke before an audience of about a thousand in Las Vegas, teasing a prospective, if fanciful, presidential run. Halfway through a
In his interview, “Political imperialism, Putin’s Russia, and the need for a global left alternative,” Ilya Matveev suggests that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was motivated
By Ilya Matveev & Federico Fuentes From Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal Over the past century, the term imperialism has been used to define
In South Africa’s watershed election last May, the African National Congress (ANC) failed to secure an outright majority for the first time in the country’s
The DRC is the subject of renewed interest, linked to the risk of regionalization of the M23 war in the east and to the focus
Why is Russian aggression in Ukraine imperialist? How is it possible to interpret it based on Lenin’s analysis of imperialism, and how do these interpretations
Can you tell us a bit more about Karmína? What is your origin story? What do you do? How do you define yourself as a
This paper asks how whether and how caste fits into a global history of racial capitalism? The misidentification of caste as custom has long misled
As with any other country, there are certainly factories with sweatshop conditions in China. But the motorcycle delivery driver and the burned-out office worker are
Volodymyr Ishchenko has carved out a unique niche as one of the western Left’s go-to voices on all things Ukrainian. His list of articles and
This question involves two common misunderstandings. First, “communist country” is an oxymoron: communism requires the end of nation-states, so it would be impossible for China
From The London Review of Books The Chinese Question: The Gold Rushes and Global Politics, by Mae Ngai. Norton, 440 pp., £21.99, September 2021, 978 0 393 63416 7 In 1852,
At the end of 1965, the apparatchiks of the Communist Party of Ukraine received an outrageous samizdat – in Ukrainian: samvydav – entitled “Internationalism or
The economic regime that has emerged in Russia has received a wide variety of characterizations and label forms. There are different terms from ‘state capitalism’
Yige Dong is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Global Gender & Sexuality Studies at University at Buffalo, State University of New York. She co-authored ‘What
Abstract What place does the caste system have in modern India with its globally integrating market economy? The most influential anthropological approaches to caste have
From Viewpoint Magazine “Imperialism,” David Harvey announced at a roundtable last year, should be seen as a “sort of metaphor, rather than anything real.” This
Sergey Nikolsky, a Russian philosopher of culture, says that perhaps the most important idea for Russians “from the fall of Byzantium until today is the